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Financial Times reporters win international M&A reporting award

James Politi, U.S. deals reporter, and Francesco Guerrera, U.S. business editor for the Financial Times, won first prize at the M&A International Media Awards 2007.

They won in the general print press and news agencies, English language category for their jointly written article entitled “KKR and Blackstone jostle for top spot,” published in the Financial Times on May 14-16.

The jury said the article “addresses a very topical issue with clarity and depth. Well-researched and insightful, it is written with such talent that it conveys the high drama of the private equity industry and the tension among its leading players from the very first sentence. This three-part series makes good use of fact-boxes and profiles and is a pleasure to read.”

Lina Saigol, the FT’s European M&A correspondent based in London, won third place in the same category for her column: “It’s time to stop league table obsession,” published April 23.

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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.