Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wins National Headliner award for business coverage

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel was the winner of the National Headliner Award for business news coverage, business commentary and/or business columns by an individual or team.

“In the Shadows” by Raquel Rutledge, John Diedrich and Daphne Chen of the Journal Sentinel captured the award.

The judges wrote, “Hospital workers have been hailed as heroes for their front-line efforts during the coronavirus pandemic. But little attention is given to the violence these workers experience in a hospital itself or in its parking garage. Raquel Rutledge, John Diedrich and Daphne Chen of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel make clear in their package how inaction by many hospitals has put these hospital workers in additional danger. An eye-opener.”

Second place went to “SBA Fraud” by Bloomberg News while third place went to “Health Care Giants Benefit With COVID Relief Funds” by Jordan Rau and Rachana Pradhan of KHN in The Washington Post.

All of the winners can be found 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.