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NYSSCPA seeks entries for Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards

The 33^rd annual Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards—which honor the best in business news journalism—are calling for submissions.

Broadcast, print, radio and online news organizations and reporters can submit financial news stories that were published, posted or aired between Jan. 1, 2015 and Dec. 31, 2015. Business book authors and publishers can also enter the national contest.

The Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards (efjawards.com) are sponsored by the New York State Society of CPAs (nysscpa.org) and are judged by a select panel of NYSSCPA members and others from the New York Financial Writers Association.

Awards will be given in 10 categories:

Commentary/Opinion
Investigative
Business Beat Reporting
Personal Finance
Explanatory
Independent or Affiliated Online Story–Large Media (circulation or daily online visitors of more than 200,000)
Independent or Affiliated Online Story–Medium to Small Media (circulation or daily online visitors of less than 200,000)
Radio/Online Digital Audio
Television/Online Digital Video
Book

All entries must be received by 11 p.m., Feb. 22. Entry fees are $75 for the first submission and $50 for each subsequent entry. Enter by Jan. 15 and use coupon code “save16” to take 50 percent off your first submission.

The 2016 EFJ Awards luncheon will be held on May 9 in New York City.

Go to efjawards.com for more information, additional rules and to enter the contest.

For all other inquiries, please contact NYSSCPA Media Relations Manager Alonza Robertson at 212.719.8405 or email journoawards@nysscpa.org.

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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.