San Diego biz reporter Weisberg wins Keen Award

Lori Weisberg

Union-Tribune business reporter Lori Weisberg received the Harold Keen Award for outstanding contributions in journalism Tuesday night at the 45th annual San Diego Press Club Excellence in Journalism Awards.

A Union-Tribune story states, “Weisberg, a Southern California native and graduate of UCLA, covers tourism and hospitality for The San Diego Union-Tribune. She wrote for the Vista Press and The Orange County Register before joining the U-T in 1980.

“In the past 38 years, Weisberg has covered a variety of beats, from suburban communities in San Diego County to San Diego City Hall, downtown redevelopment and the real estate industry.

“Her current coverage includes the battle to expand the convention center, short-term rental regulations in San Diego and SeaWorld.

“Weisberg’s award is named after Harold Keen, who anchored San Diego’s first television news broadcast in 1949.”

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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.