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Deadline Club names business reporting finalists

The Deadline Club, the largest chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, announced the finalists in the 2014 Annual Awards Contest, representing excellence in journalism from newspapers, magazines, radio, television and the internet.

There were more than 90 judges and a record 547 entries.

Here are the finalists in the business journalism categories:

Business Feature

Steven Bertoni and Caleb Melby, Forbes, “The Sad Lecherous Rent-a-friend life of the King of all Fun Stewie Rah Rah”
Michael Lewis, Vanity Fair, “Goldman’s Greek Tragedy”
A.C. Thompson and Jonathan Jones, ProPublica, “Life and Death in Assisted Living”

Business Investigative Reporting

Katherine Eban, Fortune, “Fortune: Dirty Medicine”
Jeff Gerth and T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, “Overdose”
Scott Paltrow and Kelly Carr, Reuters, “Unaccountable”
Jessica Silver-Greenberg, The New York Times, “Fleecing the Vulnerable”

See all of the finalists 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.