Biz stories at WSJ, Miami Herald, Frontline, Bloomberg BusinessWeek win National Press Club awards
Business stories at The Wall Street Journal, Miami Herald, PBS’ Frontline and Bloomberg BusinessWeek won awards from the National Press Club.
Wall Street Journal reporters Andy Pasztor and Susan Carey won the Dornheim Award for aviation coverage for their reporting on the crash of a Colgan Air turboprop near Buffalo, N.Y. “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,” according to the press club announcement.
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 e-mails 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.
The Herald’s work helped lead to a bill in the Florida legislature that would force state agents to monitor all offshore finance firms in Florida — including foreign trust offices — for fraud, money laundering and the destruction of key records,” the club said.
The Herald’s coverage of the scheme also recently won a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism.
In broadcast, PBS’ Frontline won the consumer journalism award for “The Card Game.” The co-production with The New York Times, investigated the consumer-loan industry.
Other winners include:
- Consumer Journalism (periodicals): Bloomberg BusinessWeek “Policing the Cleanup.”
- Edwin M. Hood Diplomatic: Lisa Friedman, ClimateWire: “China: The Yin & Yang of Climate Change.”
- Washington Regional Reporting: Tommy Burr, Salt Lake Tribune.
- Rowse Press Criticism: David Folkenflik, NPR, “Why GQ Doesn’t Want Russians to Read Its Story;” Dean Starkman, Columbia Journalism Review, “Power Problem.”
- Newsletter Journalism: Christopher Castelli, “Inside the Navy.”
- Free Animal Reporting (print): “A Cure for Euthanasia?” David Grimm, Science Magazine.
- Free Animal Reporting (broadcast): “Stampede to Oblivion,” George Knapp, reporter and Matthew Adams, photojournalist/editor, KLAS-TV, Las Vegas, Nev.
- Hume Award for Political Journalism: Joseph J. Schatz of CQ, “Duet with the Dragon.”
- Friedheim Travel Award: Al Letson for his public radio broadcast of “Brooklyn – Change Happens” on the series “State of the Re:Union.
- Gingras Humor Award: Barry Newman, The Wall Street Journal.
- Friedenberg Online Journalism Award: The Seattle Times for its multimedia coverage of the killings of four police officers.
The deadline — Aug. 2 — is approaching for a major business journalism contest, the Reynolds Center’s Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism. To enter work published in the year ending June 30, 2010, click here. Prizes total $7,000.
