WSJ’s Barry Newman to receive Elliott Bell Award

The New York Financial Writers’ Association announced that Wall Street Journal reporter Barry Newman is the recipient of its annual Elliott V. Bell Award, which honors journalists who have made a significant contribution to the field of financial journalism.

Over a 43-year career at The Journal that started in 1970, Newman mastered the art of getting color, capturing scenes and finding characters that made A1 stories come alive for Journal readers.

Newman wrote more than 400 features for the paper’s front page from more than 65 countries and most states in the U.S., covering everything from the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe to pickled herring caves in Sweden.

He won the Overseas Press Club’s award for explanatory journalism and the National Press Club’s award for humor writing. His stories have been collected in several books, including “East of the Equator,”  “The Literary Journalists,” and “Floating Off the Page.”

In 2015, he published “News to Me: Finding and Writing Colorful Feature Stories.”

To celebrate Newman’s achievement, the association will host an award reception at the CUNY Journalism School on Wednesday, May 24.

As part of the evening, Newman will moderate a panel with notable writers and editors about the craft of storytelling.

The discussion will explore how journalists can bring business reporting to life for general news audience and how they’re adapting their craft to today’s digital news age. Newman will be joined by Ellen Pollock, the new business editor for The New York Times, David Enrich, financial enterprise editor at The Journal, author Josh Prager, and Joe Sexton, senior editor at ProPublica.

Previous Bell winners include John Huey of Fortune, Tom Herman of The Wall Street Journal and Diana Henriques of The New York Times.

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