Fortune, NY Times among Deadline Club winners for biz journalism

Fortune and the New York Times were among the financial news media that won 2015 awards from the Deadline Club.

The winners were announced Tuesday night in New York.

Peter Elkind and Marty Jones of Fortune won the award for best business feature for “Citizenship for Sale,” which examined how rich foreigners are able to buy citizenship visas in the United States.

Hilary Stout, Danielle Ivory, Matthew L. Wald, Rebecca R. Ruiz and Hiroko Tabuchi of The New York Times won the award for business investigative reporting for “Fatal Flaws,” which has exposed missteps and delays by automakers and federal safety regulators in responding to deadly defects in automobiles during what has become a record year for recalls — more than 60 million in the United States in 2014.

Jason Anders of The Wall Street Journal won the headline writing award for “Colombians Have Had Enough of U And Your Spelling Mistakes.”

In addition, Ann Marsh, Scott Wenger and Kamrhan Farwell of Financial Planning won the award for magazine investigative reporting for “Could Financial Planning Help Stem the Rate of Military Suicides?”

See all of the winners 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.