Bloomberg Businessweek, Reuters win OPC awards for business reporting

Bloomberg Businessweek and Reuters have won awards from the Overseas Press Club for their business journalism.

The Malcolm Forbes Award for best international business news reporting in newspapers, news services or digital went to the Reuters staff of Paritosh Bansai, Tom Lassiter, Aditya Kaira, Duff Wilson and team for “The Phillip Morris Files.”

The judges wrote, “In industry after industry, companies with big lobbying budgets have managed to control and even dictate regulations without being seen.”

The Morton Frank Award for best magazine international business news reporting in print or digital went to Monte Reel of Bloomberg Businessweek for “How to Rebuild Puerto Rico.”

The judges wrote, “Monte Reel’s engagingly written account of the aftermath, ‘How to Rebuild Puerto Rico,’ is a sweeping, moving and financially literate account of Puerto Ricans’ struggle to recover.

See all of the winners here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.