Salmon wins award for statistical reporting

Felix Salmon, a well-known Reuters blogger who writes extensively about financial statistics, has been named the recipient of the 2010 Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award of the American Statistical Association.

Salmon does quantitative, statistically minded reporting on topics ranging from the costs of counterfeiting to bank fraud to Nigerian spammers

The prize’s selection committee picked Salmon “for his body of work, which exemplifies the highest standards of scientific reporting,” according to the award citation. “His insightful use of statistics as a tool to understanding the world of business and economics, areas that are critical in today’s economy, sets a new standard in statistical investigative reporting.”

Salmon came to the United States in 1997 from England, where he worked at Euromoney magazine. He also wrote daily commentary on Latin American markets for the former news service Bridge News, freelanced for a variety of publications, helped set up the New York bureau of a financial web site, and created the Economonitor blog for Roubini Global Economics.

He has been blogging since 1999 and wrote the Market Movers blog for Portfolio.com.  He is a graduate of the University of Glasgow.

Previous winners of the award include John Berry of Bloomberg News.