CFA Society Toronto seeks entries for Financial Journalism Awards

CFA Society Toronto is pleased to invite financial journalists to submit articles for the 2020 Financial Journalism Awards.

The awards were first introduced in 2013 to recognizing the contributions of different Canadian based publications and journalists in the advancement of investor education.

ELIGIBILITY

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.

Publications and journalists will be asked to submit three articles from the past 12 months that best demonstrate their commitment to investor education, ethics and high professional standards to media@cfatoronto.ca before 5 p.m. EST on 17 March 2020.

In your submission, please be sure to include:

Reference “2020 Journalism Award” in subject line
Full name of journalist
Name of publication
Copy of three (3) articles per journalist

Winners for each category will be announced on 16 April 2020 at an awards reception hosted by CFA Society Toronto.

Click here for more information about the awards or to submit your articles

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.