Kaiser Health, ICIJ, NBC News and AP win Barlett & Steele top awards

Kaiser Health News and an investigative team of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, NBC News and The Associated Press won the top awards in the 13^th annual Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Journalism, the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism announced Wednesday.

The Wall Street Journal won the silver award, and The Oregonian won the bronze award in the annual Reynolds Center honors, which celebrate the best in investigative journalism.

The awards are named for the renowned investigative team of Don Barlett and Jim Steele, whose honors included two Pulitzer prizes.

The awards will be conferred on Monday, Nov. 25, 2019, at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in Phoenix.

The Reynolds Center’s mission is to help journalists improve business coverage through in-person and online training and its website, BusinessJournalism.org. The center is part of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

To read about the winners, go 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.