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The Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism have been awarded by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism since 2007. They recognize the best in print and online investigative business journalism and are named after the two-time Pulitzer Prize winners Don Barlett and Jim Steele. Here are all of the previous winners:
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism celebrates the best in print and online investigative business journalism each year with the annual Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism.
The 2011 Barlett & Steele Award winners, along with veteran business journalist James Steele, shared behind-the-scenes stories and investigative reporting strategies during a panel discussion Tuesday. This year’s winners included The Arizona Republic’s Craig Harris, who received the gold award for his series “Public Pensions, A Soaring Burden.” The silver award went to Raquel Rutledge and [...]
GOLD AWARD: Craig Harris, a reporter at The Arizona Republic, received the top gold award in the 2011 Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism for his series “Public Pensions, A Soaring Burden.” By Craig Harris In August 2010, on a blistering hot summer day in Phoenix, I was called into Executive Editor Nicole Carroll’s [...]
Craig Harris, a reporter at The Arizona Republic, received the gold award in the 2011 Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism for his series “Public Pensions, A Soaring Burden.” The series focused on questionable public-pension practices and their cost to taxpayers. A project that included 67 public-records requests uncovered elected officials making more [...]
SILVER AWARD: Raquel Rutledge and Rick Barrett, reporters at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, received the silver award in the 2011 Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism for their series “A Case of Shattered Trust.” By Raquel Rutledge and Rick Barrett In early 2011, call after call came into the Journal Sentinel newsroom from [...]
Raquel Rutledge and Rick Barrett of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel received the silver award in the Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalsim for “A Case of Shattered Trust.” The series revealed how a firm with a decade of serious regulatory violations of sanitary conditions was allowed to operate while the Food and Drug Administration [...]
BRONZE AWARD: Michael J. Berens, a reporter at The Seattle Times, received the bronze award in the 2011 Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism for his series “Seniors for Sale.” By Michael J. Berens Sometimes, a reporter’s most powerful attributes are curiosity and ignorance. I routinely scour web-based news releases and disciplinary reports [...]
Nursing homes normally get all the scrutiny when it comes to elder care. But last year, Michael J. Berens of The Seattle Times showed that abuse isn’t isolated to nursing homes. His series on adult family homes uncovered more than 230 unreported deaths that indicated neglect
