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ICIJ/NBC News/AP wins Scripps Howard business and financial reporting award

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the NBC News Investigative Unit, the Associated Press and more than 50 media partners have won the business and financial reporting category of the 2018 Scripps Howard Awards.

Their series “Implant Files” was an investigation into the medical devices and implants industry and its related injuries and deaths.

The judges wrote, “Excellently planned, researched, documented, reported and written with key findings highlighted throughout. The compelling personal stories of patients give life to the numbers.”

Finalists were Bloomberg News for “Sign Here to Lose Everything” and Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, PRX, Associated Press and PBS NewsHour for “Kept Out.”

The Scripps Howard Foundation will present more than $170,000 in prize money to the winning organizations and journalists at its annual awards show on April 18 in Cincinnati.

Disclosure: I was a judge for this category.

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.