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Business Journalist of the Year deadline is Feb. 1

The Business Journalist of the Year award, which has been given every year since 1999, is accepting applications until Feb. 1, according to a notice on its web site.

Past winners include Peter Elkind of Fortune in 2007, Martin Dickson of The Financial Times in 2005, Catherine Arnst of BusinessWeek in 2004, and Richard Behar of Fortune in 2001. They are the only awards for business writers that are open to journalists of all nationalities, and the only awards to cover the entire spectrum of business and financial reporting.

Categories for 2008 include best corporate journalist, best economics journalist, best finance & markets journalist, best personal finance journalist, best broadcast story, best magazine story, best newspaper story, best scoop, best deadline story and The Decade of Excellence award, which has been won by Paul Steiger of The Wall Street Journal.

The judges will receive nominations for the Decade of Excellence Award until March 7. Winners will be named at the annual Business Journalist of the Year Awards gala dinner, which takes place in the Grosvenor House, London, on April 24. There are no entry fees, but you or a representative from your publication have to be present at the dinner.

The Business Journalist of the Year Awards are judged by journalists and governed by the world’s leading business editors. The Editors’ Committee comprises of Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times; Robert Peston, business editor at the BBC; Daniel Dodd, business & economics editor of the BBC; Steiger, former managing editor of the Wall Street Journal; and Rik Kirkland, former managing editor of Fortune.

The Business Journalist of the Year Awards are organized by The World Leadership Forum.

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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