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SABEW’s Best in Business contest opens for entries this weekend

The 2018 Best in Business awards contest by the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing opens for entries at midnight, Dec. 1.

The BIB awards are the only comprehensive set of awards honoring excellence in business journalism. The contest is open to stories from Jan. 1 – Dec. 31, 2018. Winners will be honored on Friday evening, May 17, during the award ceremony and dinner at SABEW’s annual spring conference.

SABEW19 will be held at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in Phoenix. The BIB ceremony will be held at the Hyatt Regency Ballroom, walking distance from ASU.

Save $15 per entry if you enter in December. The final deadline for all entries is Jan. 31, 2019 at midnight.

Mark your calendar:

Dec. 1: Early-bird entry begins. Submit your work by midnight on Dec. 31, 2018 to save $15 per entry.
Jan. 1: Regular contest entry period opens.
Jan. 31: DEADLINE for all entries is midnight.
May 17: Best in Business awards ceremony in Phoenix.

The 2018 Best in Business Committee members are: Chair Joanna Ossinger, editor, Bloomberg News; and Vice Chair Kim Quillen, business source editor, Chicago Tribune.

For more information, click here.

If you have questions, please contact us at bib@sabew.org or call (602) 496-7862.

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.