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WSJ, Sloan win National Press Club awards

The Wall Street Journal won first-place awards for consumer journalism and humor writing in the 2015 National Press Club Journalism Contest.

Allan Sloan of Fortune magazine won the Lee Walczak Award for Political Analysis for his groundbreaking investigation of a financial ploy known as inversion that is costing the U.S. Treasury millions of dollars.

The Journal won in the consumer journalism for newspapers category for a project called “Deadly Medicine” by a team of reporters led by Jennifer Levitz and Jon Kamp. It looked at cancer-related risks associated with a medical device used in minimally invasive hysterectomies.

Reuters won in the consumer journalism for periodicals category for a thorough look at how climate change is already having a tangible effect on coastal communities around the world.

Jason Gay of The Wall Street Journal won the Angele Gingras Humor Award for stories that took off from their base in sports to shed hilarious yet illuminating truths on different aspects of American culture. One skewering of corporate branding was called, “The NCAA Took Away My Cat Mug.”

The Wall Street Journal won the Joan M. Friedenberg Online Journalism Award for “Medicare Unmasked,”  a look at doctors who were getting rich off of the taxpayer-funded Medicare program, including an interactive database so readers could see how they did it.

The winners will be honored at an awards dinner at the National Press Club on Wednesday, July 29. 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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