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Canadian biz reporter wins award for steel coverage

Senior business reporter Steve Arnold of the Hamilton Spectator in Canada has won this year’s SONG Labour Journalism Award for his reporting on how foreign domination has impacted Hamilton’s steel industry and its workers.

A story on the Spectator’s website states, “Arnold’s reporting took readers ‘into the inner worlds of multinational steel giants ArcelorMittal Dofasco and U.S. Steel, and into the living rooms of steelworkers worried about their pensions, job security and meaningful employment,’ said Paul Morse, president of Unifor Local 87-M, Southern Ontario Newsmedia Guild.

“Morse gave credit to Arnold’s eye for detail. The business journalist tracked down employees, former executives, politicians and union representatives to create a full picture of the company’s ownership changes and their impacts on labour relations.

“Randy Kitt, national chair of Unifor’s Media Industry Council said the series ‘speaks to the realities of globalization on our national economy.’

“Unifor is the new national super-union born of the merger of Canada’s two largest private-sector unions, the Canadian Auto Workers and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada.”

Read more here. Read Arnold’s steel industry coverage 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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