Morgenson to receive Bell award

Gretchen Morgenson, assistant business and financial editor and a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times, is the 2010 winner of the New York Financial Writers’ Association’s Elliott V. Bell Award, honoring an individual’s lifetime contributions to the field of financial journalism.

Morgenson has covered the world financial markets for The Times since 1998 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her coverage of Wall Street. Previously, she was assistant managing editor at Forbes magazine and the executive editor at Worth magazine.  She began her career at Vogue magazine, then worked as a stockbroker for Dean Witter Reynolds from 1981-84, before returning to journalism as a staff writer for Money magazine.

Then, as an investigative business writer and editor at Forbes magazine, she broke the story of anti-investor practices on the Nasdaq stock market that was followed by Justice Department and SEC investigations. She also oversaw several Forbes investing sections and its Washington bureau. From September 1995 to March 1996. she served as press secretary for Steve Forbes during his campaign for the Republican Presidential nomination.

She is the author of “Forbes Great Minds Of Business,” published by John Wiley & Co., in 1997, and is co-author of “The Woman’s Guide to the Stock Market,” published by Harmony Books in 1981.

The Elliott V. Bell Award is named for the longtime editor of Business Week magazine who was the founding president of the NYFWA in 1938. It is awarded annually to “an outstanding journalist who has made a significant long-term contribution to the profession of financial journalism.”

Recent  winners include Allan Sloan, Fortune (2009); Jerry Flint, Forbes (2008), and Diana B. Henriques, New York Times (2007).

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