SABEW’s Best in Business contest now accepting entries

The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing is now accepting entries for its annual Best in Business Awards.

Submit your entry before the early-bird deadline of Jan. 6, 2022, and save $15 per entry. The final deadline for all entries is Wednesday, Feb. 2.

Early-Bird Entry Fees:

$60 for Story Type and Story Topic categories, as well as Best Range of Work (new category)
$125 for General Excellence categories
$45 for Freelancers
(use promo code “Freelancer” when you pay for your entries on the contest website)
$30 for Students

Three new categories:
1. Best Range of Work – Entries should showcase distinguished work by a single journalist across the broad spectrum of content platforms and categories, including the topic categories (health, technology, etc.) as well as investigative, breaking news, explanatory, audio, video, newsletters, data, live events, etc.

2. Real-Time Reporting, Live On the Air (new category to replace Breaking News) – Broadcast, audio and streaming video coverage within the first minutes of a breaking story, demonstrating speed of delivering news and analysis with relevant context and value-added information. News organizations of all sizes will compete against each other in this category.

3. Real-Time Reporting, Written (new category to replace Breaking News) – Coverage within the first minutes of a breaking story, demonstrating speed of delivering headlines, stories and analysis with relevant context and value-added information.

Updated requirements for one category:
1. Innovation – Entries should demonstrate highly creative, multimedia efforts to report, present or distribute stories. Examples include: immersive media experiences; differentiated use of video, audio, or interactive infographics; special use of newsletters; live events; social media; etc.

Visit SABEW’s Best in Business page for categories and guidelines. Because this contest is for members only, please verify your membership before submitting your entry.

Contact Tess McLaughlin at tmclaughlin@sabew.org with any questions.

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.