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SABEW Canada names Best in Business winners

The Canadian branch of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers announced Thursday the winners of the second annual Best in Business Canada competition.

More than 100 business journalists attended its awards show held at Valdez restaurant in Toronto Wednesday night, surpassing the attendance last year. This year’s event featured a new category — Breaking News — bringing the total number of categories to 10.

Below are the winners (listed in bold) and nominees for each category.

Beat Reporting
Brent Jang, Energy, Globe and Mail
Allison Lampert, John Tilak, Euan Rocha, Allison Martell, Andrea Shalal, Tim Hepher, Arno Schuetze, Mike Stone, Benjamin Limand Matt Miller, Bombardier, Thomson Reuters
Claudia Cattaneo, Energy, Financial Post

Breaking News
Philip Porado, Melissa Shin, Jessica Bruno and Christopher Guly, 2015 Budget Coverage, Advisor.ca
John Shmuel, Gigi Suhanic, Andrew Barr, Chris Gallipeau, Canada Officially in a Recession, Financial Post
Barrie McKenna, Rob Carrick, Tamsin McMahon, Tim Kiladze, Scott Barlow, Tavia Grant, Tim Shufelt, Matt Lundy and Sherrill Sutherland, Rate Cut Surprise, Globe and Mail

Commentary
Jason Kirby, Maclean’s
Deborah Aarts, Canadian Business
David Parkinson, Globe and Mail

Long-Form Feature
Bombardier’s Biggest Gamble, Financial Post
Charles Wilkins, The Deep, Report on Business magazine
Patrick White, Starring Brad Katsuyama as Himself, Report on Business magazine

Short-Form Feature
Alistair MacDonald, Rita Trichur, Ben Dummett, RBC’s Latin Misadventure, Wall Street Journal
Chester Dawson, Brian Spegele, CNOOC Slips in Canada’s Oil Sands, Wall Street Journal
Claire Brownell, Inside Ashley Madison, Financial Post

Investigative
Peter O’Neil and Gordon Hoekstra, Energy Giant Petronas Faced ‘Catastrophic’ Safety Issues, Vancouver Sun
Jacquie McNish and Niall McGee, Amaya’s improbable $4.9-billion PokerStars gamble and the largest insider trading investigation in Canadian history, Globe and Mail
Tamsin McMahon, Mortgage Fraud, Globe and Mail

Multimedia
Mark Brown, Stefania Di Verdi and Mike Shoss, Best Places to Live 2015, MoneySense
Rob Carrick and Tom Cardoso, Rent Calculator, Globe and Mail
Mark Brown, Romana King, Stefania Di Verdi and Mike Shoss, Best Deals in Real Estate, MoneySense

Package or Ongoing Series
Gordon Hoekstra and Larry Pynn, Pride & Power: First Nations in the B.C. Economy, Vancouver Sun
Tavia Grant, Tamsin McMahon, David Parkinson, Barrie McKenna, David Berman, Roma Luciw, Richard Blackwell, Aron Yeomansonand Matt Lundy, Debt: Canada’s Borrowing Binge, Globe and Mail
Chester Dawson, Alistair MacDonald, Brian Spegele and Rita Trichur, Alberta’s Oil Woes, Wall Street Journal

Personal Finance/Investing
Rob Carrick, personal finance columns, Globe and Mail
Gary Marr, The TFSA Under Siege, Financial Post
Dan Bortolotti, A Smarter Way to Invest, MoneySense

Profile
Tim Querengesser, Given The History…, Alberta Venture
Omar Mouallem, Edmonton’s Porn King, Alberta Venture
David Parkinson, Barrie McKenna, The Game Changer, Globe and Mail

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.