Business stories from The Wall Street Journal, the Miami Herald and National Public Radio were recognized in the annual National Press Club journalism awards, announced Wednesday.
Journal reporters Andy Pasztor and Susan Carey won the Dornheim Award for their coverage of the crash of a Colgan Air turboprop near Buffalo. They revealed the minimal training of the pilots and shockingly detailed a lack of discipline in the cockpit. Their reporting drew the public’s attention to large issues of a flight school using students as pilots in its own airline and explored how a hiring boom at commuter airlines had led to crews with minimal training.
Herald reporters Michael Sallah, Rob Barry and Lucy Komisar won the consumer journalism award for print with their expose of Allen Stanford’s massive Ponzi scheme that cost investors $7 billion. The reporters combed through mountains of records and emails and conducted interviews with company insiders to develop a package of absorbing stories about a financial player who fended off government oversight in the United States and in Caribbean countries.
On the broadcast side, PBS’ Frontline won the consumer journalism award for “The Card Game,” which interviews with the lobbyist for the financial services industry, top lawmakers, consumers who faced tighter credit and two industry experts credited with practices such as “free checking.”
Bloomberg BusinessWeek also won the consumer journalism award for periodicials for “Policing the Cleanup.” Also, Dean Starkman of Columbia Journalism Review, who critiques the business press, won a press criticism award for “Power Problem.”
Read about all of the winners here.
