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WSJ, Frontline wins OPC awards for best international business coverage

The Wall Street Journal has won the Malcolm Forbes Award from the Overseas Press Club, which recognizes the best international business reporting in newspapers, news services and magazines.

The reporters were Nick Kostov and Sean McLain, and their coverage was on former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn.

The judges wrote, “Kostov and McLain’s persistent enterprise over the course of the year helped Journal readers solve a great mystery.”

The Journal earned three OPC awards, including reporting and photography prizes for the same story about a Swedish man trying to rescue his seven grandchildren from ISIS hands in Syria.

The Morton Frank Award for best international business news reporting in TV, video, radio, audio or podcast went to Rick Young, Emma Schwartz, Laura Sullivan and Fritz Kramer of Frontline PBS for  “Trump’s Trade War.

The judges wrote, “The report did an excellent job of guiding viewers through an up-close understanding of the places, from Wenzhou, China to cities in Ohio, and the people, including President Trump himself, who forged this confrontation between the United States and China.”

See all of the winners 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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