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Bloomberg News top winner in SABEW's Best in Business

Bloomberg News, with 20 winning entries, garnered the top awards in the Society of American Business Editors and Writers‘ Best in Business Awards, released Friday morning.

GlobalPost was second with 10 awards; The New York Times was third with eight winners. Overall, there were 168 winners across 65 categories, from among 904 entries received.

Here are some of the winners:

General Excellence: Dailies Sunday circulation 25,000 to 200,000

Arizona Daily Star (Tucson, Ariz.)
The Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.)
The Times-Tribune (Scranton, Pa.)
The Detroit News
The Des Moines Register
Hartford (Conn.) Courant

General Excellence: Dailies Sunday circulation 200,000 to 500,000

The Boston Globe
The Seattle Times
The Dallas Morning News

General Excellence: Dailies Sunday circulation 500,000 and above

The New York Times
Los Angeles Times
USA Today

Weeklies/Biweeklies general excellence:

Crain’s New York Business
Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle, Wash.)
Street and Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal

Radio/TV:

CNBC: “Marijuana USA”
CNBC: “Remington Under Fire”
CNBC: “One Nation Overweight”

Real estate coverage:

The Baltimore Sun: Jamie Smith Hopkins coverage
Detroit Free Press: Greta Guest coverage
MarketWatch: Amy Hoak’s “Home Economics”

The awards will be presented Saturday, April 9, at the 48th annual conference in Dallas. The conference runs April 7 to April 9 and features top government officials like SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro and White House Consumer Advocate Elizabeth Warren, and top CEOs from Southwest Airlines, American Airlines, Chesapeake Energy, Whole Foods and The Container Store.

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.