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Lieberman wins Welles Memorial Prize

Trudy Lieberman

Trudy Lieberman is the winner of the Chris Welles Memorial Prize from the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship at Columbia University‘s Graduate School of Journalism.

Lieberman was honored for her work at Harper’s magazine, which examined the Affordable Care Act.

She is a longtime contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review. She is the lead writer for The Second Opinion, CJR’s health care desk, which is part of our United States Project on the coverage of politics and policy.

She also blogs for Health News Review.

The Christopher J. Welles Memorial Prize memorializes the former Business Week columnist and editor — and Knight-Bagehot Advisory Board Member — who died in June, 2010, at age 72.

It is awarded for any story or series produced by a graduate of the Knight-Bagehot program that best reflect business and financial sophistication and epitomizes the late Welles’ ideals of thorough reporting, good storytelling and timeliness.

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.

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