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Bloomberg team wins National Press Club award for Brexit coverage

A team of Bloomberg won the Breaking News award from the National Press Club for their fast and thorough coverage of the Brexit vote.

The first-place and honorable mention winners of the contest will be recognized at the annual awards dinner on Friday evening, July 28, National Press Club in Washington.

Here are other business and personal finance related winners and honorable mentions:

Winners

Consumer Journalism-periodicals: “The Politics of Pain,” by the Center for Public Integrity and The Associated Press – a look at big pharmaceutical companies’ role in the opioid painkillers crisis.

Newsletter Journalism: “Busted: The Last Oil Boom?” by E&E News – a look at the boom-bust economic cycle of the oil industry.

Michael A. Dornheim Award: Investigative reports by Elan Head of Vertical Magazine looking in-depth at safety concerns about helicopters.

Honorable mentions

Consumer Journalism-newspapers: “The Uncounted,” by a team of Reuters reporters looking at “superbugs” – antibiotic resisting bacteria.

Consumer Journalism-broadcast: ABC’s Brian Ross Investigates – a look at shoddy home construction.

Lee Walczak Award for Political Analysis: Jon Hilsenrath and Bob Davis of The Wall Street Journal for a thorough look at the economics of trade and how it affected the 2016 election.

See all of the winners and honorable mentions 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.

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