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NYSSCPA seeks entries for Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards

The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants’ (NYSSCPA) Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards celebrates the year’s best distinguished reporting that cultivates and promotes a better understanding of accounting, finance and business topics.

Winners are chosen based on the creativity and relevancy of their entry to the category submitted.

Deadline for all submissions is April 2, 2018. Winners will be notified in May 2018. The Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards luncheon will be held June 2018 in New York City.

This is the 35th year that the NYSSCPA — the nation’s first state society of accounting professionals with more than 26,000 members — has hosted its competition to raise awareness and exposure of the outstanding work being done in business journalism.

Past winners throughout the U.S. and across the globe include journalists writing for The New York Times, Financial Times, Dow Jones Radio, Bloomberg, USA Today, ABC, CNBC, Fortune, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, CNN International, among many others.

Read about contest rules, judging criteria and submission fees 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.

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