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Bloomberg News wins three awards from Silurians

Bloomberg News is the winner in the business and financial category of the Society of the Silurians‘ 2012 Excellence in Journalism Awards Competition.

Max Abelson, Michael McDonald and Martin Z. Braun won for “The Apocalypse That Never Happened.”

Bloomberg won two other awards from the Silurians.

Susan Antilla, a columnist for Bloomberg View, won the online commentary award for “Watching the Public’s Back.”

In addition, Bloomberg Markets won the investigative magazine category. Michael Smith, Daryna Krasnolutska, David Voreacos and David Glovin won for “Crime and Human Organs.”

New York magazine won the business and financial category in the magazine section. The winning entry was Steve Fishman‘s “Madoff on Madoff: The Jailhouse Tapes.”

The Silurians, founded in 1924, is an organization of veteran journalists dedicated to excellence and journalistic integrity.

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.