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New awards contest for Canadian business journalists

CFA Society Toronto has created a set of journalist awards recognizing the contributions of different Canadian based publications and journalists towards advancement of investor education, best practice and the promotion of ethics and high professional standards within the financial community.

This award will identify and reward publications and journalists whose work helps consumers and practitioners gain a better understanding of the investment profession.  In order to win submissions need to be explanatory, relevant, easy to read and backed up by data and fact.

“These awards were not only established to recognize those journalists who share the values and ethics put forth by CFA Institute and CFA Society Toronto but to encourage and ensure the continued education of investors and capital markets participants through the various media channels.” said CFA Society Toronto Board member Ron Schwartz, CFA, Member Communications Chair.

Awards will be presented at the annual CFA Society Toronto Media Contact Directory launch in fall 2014.

Qualifying publications will be asked to submit three articles from the past 12 months that best demonstrate their commitment to investor education, ethics and high professional standards to spacella@cfatoronto.ca by June 30, 2014.

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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