Henriques to receve Elliott Bell Award

Diana Henriques of The New York Times will receive the Elliott V. Bell Award from the New York Financial Writers’ Association next month at its annual dinner. The award is given “to an outstanding journalist for a significant long-term contribution to the profession of financial journalism.â€?

The dinner will be June 1 at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square in New York. The keynote address will be given by Congressman Charles Rangel, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee.

Past winners of the Bell Award, named after a former editor of BusinessWeek, include CNN’s Myron Kandel, Bloomberg News’ Matt Winkler and the Wall Street Journal’s Barney Calame.

Henriques joined The Times in October 1989 as a financial reporter. Before that, from July 1986, she was a writer for Barron’s.  Since joining The Times, she has specialized in reporting on financial fraud, white-collar crime and corporate governance issues.

After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Henriques worked with the Metro reporter David Barstow, covering the management of billions of dollars in charity and victim assistance as part of the paper’s award-winning section “A Nation Challenged,”  and chronicling the fate of Cantor Fitzgerald, the Wall Street firm that suffered the largest death toll in the attacks.

She was a member of The Times reporting team that was a Pulitzer finalist in 2003 for its coverage of  the business scandals of the previous year. She was also a member of the reporting team that won the 1999 Gerald Loeb Award for deadline reporting, in the large newspaper division, for coverage of the near-collapse of Longterm Capital Management, a hedge fund whose troubles rocked the financial markets in September 1998.

And she was one of four reporters honored for a 1996 series on how wealthy Americans can legally sidestep taxes; the four reporters were finalists, in the large newspaper division, for the 1996 Loeb Award, and were winners of the large newspaper division prize for investigative reporting awarded by the Deadline Club, the New York City chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, the Society of Professional Journalists.

Previously, Henriques worked for The Trenton Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer.