CFA Society Toronto seeking entries for 2021 Financial Journalism Awards

CFA Society Toronto is pleased to invite financial Canadian journalists to submit their top three articles for the 2021 Financial Journalism Awards.

The awards were first introduced in 2013 to acknowledge the contributions of Canadian based financial publications and journalists who show true commitment to high professional standards.

All publicly available business titles produced within Canada, with a minimum of four pages dedicated to business news and features with a daily distribution rate over 45,000. Canadian magazine and trade titles qualify on the condition of minimum bi-monthly publication, with a circulation over 5,000.

The three award categories for the 2020 Financial Journalism Awards are Publication of the Year, Journalist of the Year, and the Future of Finance Award.

To take part in this year’s Financial Journalism Awards, publications and journalists will need to submit three articles from the past 12 months that best demonstrate their commitment to investor education, ethics and high professional standards by March 15, 2021, 5 p.m. EST.

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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.