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WSJ, GrowthSpotter win Eppy Awards

The Wall Street Journal won the Eppy Award for best business and financial news website with more than 1 million monthly visitors from Editor and Publisher, while the Orlando Sentinel’s GrowthSpotter.com won for best business and financial news website with less than 1 million monthly visitors.

Meanwhile, The Journal’s “Open Sesame: Peering Inside Alibaba” won for best business reporting on a website with more than 1 million monthly visitors.

“Selling Hope” from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune won the Eppy for best business reporting on a website with less than 1 million monthly visitors.

“Inside the Market” from the Toronto Globe and Mail won for the best business blog on a website with more than 1 million monthly visitors, while Videomind by Ooyala won for best business blog on a website with less than 1 million monthly visitors.

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.