CNNBusiness, GrowthSpotter named best biz news sites

CNNBusiness has won the Eppy Award for best business news website with more than 1 million monthly viewers while the Orlando Sentinel’s GrowthSpotter won the Eppy for best business news website with less than 1 million monthly viewers.

The Eppy Awards are presented by Editor & Publisher.

The best business reporting Eppy to a site with more than 1 million monthly viewers was a tie between “Bribery Division” from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, La Posta, and McClatchy/Miami Herald and “Sign Here to Lose Everything” from Bloomberg News.

The best business reporting Eppy to a site with less than 1 million monthly viewers went to “Mauritius Leaks” from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

The best business blog Eppy to a site with more than 1 million monthly viewers went to QuickTakes from Bloomberg News.

The best business blog Eppy to a site with less than 1 million monthly viewers went to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

All of the winners can be found 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.