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Loeb Awards change slightly for 2011

The Gerald Loeb Awards, considered the Pulitzer Prizes of business journalism, have refined the category descriptions for a few entries and expanded the number of entries for 2011.

The category definitions that have had a few minor changes are the breaking news, online enterprise and blogging categories. All definition changes involve adding a phrase to further clarify what judges will be looking for.

This year there is a maximum of five entries per submission in all print and online categories. Some categories last year had a maximum of three entries per submission.

Also, this year each outlet is limited to two submissions per category and the same submission may only be entered in a maximum of two different categories.

For more information, 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.