Named for the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning investigative business journalist team of Don Barlett and Jim Steele, these awards, funded by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, celebrate the best in print and online investigative business journalism.
The annual awards were first given out in fall 2007, and feature a Gold award of [...]
Walt Bogdanich discusses “A Toxic Pipeline,” a series he wrote with Jake Hooker for The New York Times. Their work received the first-place Barlett & Steele Award in 2007.
The stories documented China’s role in supplying a counterfeit drug ingredient that killed at least 100 people in Panama and is suspected of killing thousands of others [...]
The Miami Herald received the gold award and Bloomberg Markets magazine the silver award in the 2009 Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism, the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism.
“Borrowers Betrayed” by Jack Dolan, Matthew Haggman and Rob Barry of The Miami Herald received the top gold award of $5,000 in [...]
The Barlett & Steele Awards, named for the famed investigative team of Donald Barlett and James Steele, were first conferred in the fall of 2007 to celebrate the best in print and online investigative business journalism. Awards are conferred at a ceremony held each January during ‘Reynolds Business Journalism Week’ at the Walter Cronkite School [...]
Fred Schulte and June Arney of The Baltimore Sun discuss their series, “On Shaky Ground,” which grabbed the second-place $2,000 Barlett & Steele award in 2007.
Their series in December 2006 tracked how Baltimore’s arcane system of property fees initiated in colonial times had evolved into a system of greed and lax oversight that preyed on [...]
Jim Steele talks about why investigative business journalism is vital in newsrooms.
Steele and fellow journalist, Don Barlett, are one of the most widely acclaimed investigative reporting teams in American journalism.
Gary Cohn and Darrell Preston wrote a piece for Bloomberg Markets magazine investigating the fees that AARP collects on members’ insurance policies. The article won the silver award and $2,000 in the Reynolds Center’s third annual Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism this week.
The story leads with Arthur Laupus’ story:
“Laupus stumbled onto something [...]
Miami Herald reporters Jack Dolan, Matt Haggman and Rob Barry produced a series called, “Borrowers Betrayed,” in January that “found that the state had licensed over a thousand convicted felons as mortgage brokers and had allowed two thousand felons to work as unlicensed loan originators.” That series won the top gold award and $5,000 in [...]
BusnessWeek’s “Prisoners of Debt” received first-place in the 2008 Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism. The annual awards are sponsored by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism.
By Brian Grow, Robert Berner, Keith Epstein and Gery Smith
In early 2007, before the full extent of the subprime mortgage debacle became [...]
