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WSJ, Bloomberg reporters win National Press Foundation awards

Reporters from The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News were named winners of National Press Foundation awards on Wednesday.

Gary Fields and John R. Emshwiller of the Wall Street Journal will receive the Feddie, given for work showing the impact of Washington rules and regulations outside the Beltway. In a series called, “Federal Offenses,” they showed how little-known laws can snare the unwary – such as the father and son who were arrested and fined for trying to find (but not finding) arrowheads on federal land.

Bloomberg News reporters John Crewdson, Alison Fitzgerald, Jonathan D. Salant, Charles R. Babcock and Kristin Jensen, who will receive the Dirksen Award for Distinguished Coverage of Congress for an investigation of political attack ads funded by independent organizations whose contributions flowed below the radar of all monitoring agencies. The ads were often intended to defeat candidates rather than elect them.

The NPF awards are among the most prestigious in journalism. They will be presented at NPF’s 29th annual awards dinner, March 7, 2012.

Read more here.

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.

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