2011 Best in Business Honorees

Complete list of winners in SABEW’s 17th annual Best in Business Awards

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DIVISION: DIGITAL

 

BLOG

Digital: All sizes

 

Repowatch.org

Mary Fricker

Financial Crisis

 

 

BREAKING NEWS

Digital: All sizes

 

FINS.com:

Julie Steinberg, Aaron Lucchetti

MF Global

 

 

CNNMoney.com

Chris Peacock and CNNMoney Staff

Dow Plunges 635 Points on August 8

 

 

CREATIVE USE ACROSS MULTIPLE PLATFORMS

Digital: 500,000 to 2.5 million

 

GlobalPost

Ioan Grillo, John Dickie, Sarah Childress, Mark Scheffler

Narconomics

 

Digital: More than 2.5 million

CNNMoney.com

Gabrielle Solomon

Best Places to Live

 

CNNMoney.com

Blake Ellis, Jordan Malter

America’s Biggest Boomtown

 

MSNBC.com

Allison Linn, Martin Wolk, Jim Seida, John Brecher, John Makely

We are the median

 

EXPLANATORY

Digital: Fewer than 500,000

ClimateWire

Tiffany Stecker

Europe’s Cap-and-Trade System Brings Jobs to Georgia

 

 

ClimateWire

Joel Kirkland

China’s Energy

 

Digital: 500,000 to 2.5 million

 

GlobalPost

Patrick Winn, Emily Lodish

Burma Rebooted

 

 

Digital: More than 2.5 million

The Motley Fool

Alex Dumortier, Dari FitzGerald

“Low-Risk” Trade That Brought Down MF Global

 

CNNMoney.com

David Goldman

The Cybercrime Economy

 

CNNMoney.com

Steve Hargreaves

Military’s War on Oil

 

FEATURE

Digital: Fewer than 500,000

 

ClimateWire

Tiffany Stecker

Europe’s Cap-and-Trade System Brings Jobs to Georgia

 

InsuranceQuotes.com

John Egan, Lisa Shidler

Medical Bills Can Mount for Shooting Victims

 

Digital: 500,000 to 2.5 million

 

GlobalPost

Sarah Childress, Simeon Tegel, Girish Gupta, Nadja Drost, John Otis

The Scramble For El Dorado

 

GlobalPost

Emily Lodish, Patrick Winn, Kathleen E. McLaughlin, Jason Overdorf, Justin McCurry, Tristan McConnell, Kate Lamb, Nicholas Dynan

Rice 2.0

 

 

Digital:  More than 2.5 million

 

CNNMoney.com

David Goldman

Android’s law

 

Bankrate.com

Claes Bell, Katherine Lewis, Janna Herron, Marcie Geffner, Stephen Pounds

Financial Reform, One Year Later

 

CNBC.com

Jeff Cox

Occupy Wall Street

 

GENERAL EXCELLENCE

Digital: Fewer than 2.5 million

 

FINS.com

Editorial staff of FINS.com

 

PolitiFact

Bill Adair, Martha Hamilton, Louis Jacobson

 

 

GENERAL EXCELLENCE

Digital: More than 2.5 million

 

CNET News

CNET Editorial Staff

 

MarketWatch

MarketWatch Staff

 

CNNMoney.com

CNNMoney Staff

 

INVESTIGATIVE

 

Digital: Fewer than 500,000

Center for Public Integrity

Michael Hudson

The Great Mortgage Cover-Up

 

ProPublica

Paul Kiel, Olga Pierce

Foreclosure Crisis

 

Texas Watchdog

Steve Miller

The Hurricane Insurance Hustle

 

Digital: More than 500,000

 

GlobalPost

Patrick Winn, Emily Lodish

Burma Rebooted

 

GlobalPost

Kathleen E. McLaughlin, Sharron Lovell, Emily Lodish, Mark Scheffler

Relocation Nation

 

 

 

OPINION/COLUMN

Digital: Fewer than 500,000

 

ProPublica

Jesse Eisinger

The Trade Columns

 

Xconomy.com

Luke Timmerman

Biotech columns

 

Reuters

Rob Cox, Jeffrey Goldfarb, Robert Cyran, Agnes T. Crane, Antony Currie

Breakingviews Columns

 

Digital: 500,000 to 2.5 million

 

GlobalPost

Thomas Mucha

Mucha Columns

 

Digital: More than 2.5 million

 

CNNMoney.com

Paul R. La Monica

The Buzz

 

MarketWatch

Rex Nutting

Columns

 

TheStreet.com

Adam Feuerstein

Pharma Fraud

 

DIVISION: INTERNATIONAL

 

BLOG

Financial Times

Staff

FTAlphaville

 

BREAKING NEWS

 

Financial Times

Financial Times staff

The Eurozone crisis

 

Reuters

Reuters Staff

The Libyan Revolution

 

Financial Times

Jonathan Soble, Louise Lucas, Lindsay Whipp

The Olympus Accounting Scandal

 

CREATIVE USE ACROSS MULTIPLE PLATFORMS

 

The (Toronto) Globe and Mail

Kevin Carmichael, Greg Keenan, Moe Doiron, Claire Neary, Adriano Valentini

Remade in Canada – The Future of Factories

 

Financial Times

Christine Spolar, Jeff Gerth (ProPublica), Megan Murphy, Vanessa Houlder, Johanna Kassel, Benjamin Freese

Tax Wars Series

 

GlobalPost

Thomas Mucha, David Case, Emily Lodish, Kathleen E. McLaughlin, Justin McCurry, Michael Goldfarb, Jon Jensen, Mark Scheffler

7 Deadly Stories

 

FEATURE

 

Fortune Magazine

James Bandler

Afghan Gold

 

GlobalPost

Sarah Childress, Alex Leff, Nick Miroff

Gangsters’ Paradise

 

The (Toronto) Globe and Mail

Mark Mackinnon

The Empire Sino-Forest Built

 

EXPLANATORY

 

The Wall Street Journal

Phred Dvorak, Peter Landers Yuka Hayashi, Norihiko Shirouzu, Chester Dawson, Juro Osawa, Yumiko Ono, Mitsuru Obe

Fukushima Daiishi: Causes and Consequences

 

Bloomberg Markets

Michael Smith, Daryna Krasnolutska, David Glovin

Lethal Commerce

 

The Wall Street Journal

Marcus Walker, Charles Forelle, Stacy Meichtry, Chirstopher Rhoads, Brian Blackstone, Matthew Karnitschnig

Europe Disunion

 

 

INVESTIGATIVE

 

Bloomberg Markets

Michael Smith, Daryna Krasnolutska, David Glovin

Lethal Commerce

 

Financial Times

Christine Spolar, Jeff Gerth (ProPublica), Megan Murphy, Vanessa Houlder, Johanna Kassel, Benjamin Freese

Tax Wars Series

 

The Wall Street Journal

Phred Dvorak, Peter Landers Yuka Hayashi, Norihiko Shirouzu, Chester Dawson, Juro Osawa, Yumiko Ono, Mitsuru Obe, Andrew Morse

Fukushima Daiishi: Causes and Consequences

 

OPINION/COLUMN

 

Financial Times

Wolfgang Münchau

 

 

 

 

DIVISION: NEWS AGENCIES

 

BREAKING NEWS

Bloomberg News

Tom Schoenberg, Sara Forden, Jeff Bliss, Cornelius Rahn, Zachary Mider

Blocking a Deal

 

Bloomberg News

Katherine Burton

Soros to End Four Decades as Hedge Fund Leader by Returning Investor Cash

 

The Associated Press

David Koenig, Scott Mayerowitz, Samantha Bomkamp, Dave Carpenter, Joshua Freed

American Airlines Bankruptcy

 

 

CREATIVE USE ACROSS MULTIPLE PLATFORMS

 

Bloomberg News

Cam Simpson

Victoria’s Secret Revealed in Child Picking Burkina Faso Cotton

 

Bloomberg News

Vernon Silver, Ben Elgin, Alan Katz

Wired for Repression

 

Bloomberg News

Bradley Keoun, Phil Kuntz, Bob Ivry, Craig Torres, Scott Lanman, Christopher Condon, Donal Griffin, Greg Stohr and Matthew Winkler

The Fed’s Trillion-Dollar Secret

 

 

EXPLANATORY

Bloomberg News

Cam Simpson, Alan Katz, Simon Clark, Heather Walsh

Anything But Fair

 

Reuters

Scot Paltrow

Robo-Signing Redux

 

Bloomberg News

Bradley Keoun, Phil Kuntz, Bob Ivry, Craig Torres, Scott Lanman, Christopher Condon, Donal Griffin, Greg Stohr and Matthew Winkler

The Fed’s Trillion-Dollar Secret

 

FEATURE

 

Reuters

Scot Paltrow

The Congressman with Banks on the Side

 

The Associated Press

Bernard Condon

Farmland Boom

 

The Associated Press

Bernard Condon, Randy Herschaft

Madoff Victim’s Lawyer

 

 

INVESTIGATIVE

The Associated Press

Jeff Donn

Aging Nukes

 

Scripps Howard News Service

Isaac Wolf, Thomas Hargrove

Grave Mistakes

 

Bloomberg News

Peter Waldman

Preparing Americans for Death Lets Hospices Neglect End of Life

 

OPINION/COLUMN

Reuters

Jack Schafer

Jack Shafer Columns

 

Dow Jones Newswires

Al Lewis

Al’s Emporium Column

 

Dow Jones Newswires

Neal Lipschutz

Point of View Column

 

PERSONAL FINANCE

 

Money Magazine

Lisa Gibbs

Consumer Protection

 

 

The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer

Teresa Dixon Murray

On Money

 

The Wall Street Journal

Jason Zweig

The Intelligent Investor

 

 

DIVISION: PRINT – DAILY NEWSPAPERS

 

BLOG

Dailies: 25,000 to 100,000

 

The (Quincy, Mass.) Patriot Ledger:

Jon Chesto

Mass. Market blog

 

Dailies: 100,000 to 200,000

 

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Elisabeth Ponsot, Laura Olson, Erich Schwartzel, Laura Malt Schneiderman, Steve Mellon

 

Pipeline

 

The Des Moines Register

Philip Brasher, Dan Piller

Green Fields

 

Hartford Courant

Matthew Sturdevant

Insurance Capital Blog

 

Dailies: 200,000 to 500,000

 

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Tom Daykin

Land and Space blog

 

The Orange County (Santa Ana, Calif.) Register

Jonathan Lansner, Jeff Collins, Marilyn Kalfus

Lansner on Real Estate

 

Charlotte Observer

Andrew Dunn, Kirsten Valle Pittman

Bank Watch

 

 

Dailies: More than 500,001

 

Houston Chronicle

Dwight Silverman

TechBlog

 

BREAKING NEWS

Dailies: 25,000 to 100,000

 

Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune

Michael Braga, Matthew Doig

14 Indicted in Major Flipping Conspiracy

 

Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune

Michael Pollick, Doug Sword

Jackson Lab Picks Sarasota County

 

Ventura County (Ventura, Calif.) Star

Stephanie Hoops

Feds Take Over Debt Collection Business

 

 

Dailies: 100,000 to 200,000

 

The Detroit News

David Shepardson

CAFE Standards

 

Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Andrew Gomes, Rob Perez

Hawaiian Electric Suitor

 

The Detroit News

Jaclyn Trop

Final Chapter for Borders

 

Dailies: 200,000 to 500,000

 

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Andrea Ahles, Bob Cox, Gordon Dickson, Scott Nishimura, Mitchell Schnurman

American Airlines Bankruptcy

 

The Seattle Times

Dominic Gates

Boeing, Union Seal Deal

 

The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe Business staff

Stock Plunge

 

 

Dailies: More than 500,001

The New York Times

The New York Times Staff

MF Global Bankruptcy

 

CREATIVE USE ACROSS MULTIPLE PLATFORMS

Dailies: 100,000 to 200,000

The (Memphis, Tenn.) Commercial Appeal

Daniel Connolly, Amos Maki, Michael Erskine, Grant Smith

Landing Electrolux

 

Dailies: 200,000 to 500,000

 

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Dan Chapman, Michael Kanell

Atlanta Forward

 

The Boston Globe

Jenn Abelson, Beth Daley

Fishy Business

 

Dailies: More than 500,001

 

(Minneapolis) StarTribune

Staff

Ford Plant Shutdown

 

The Wall Street Journal

Jason Bellini, Jonathan Cheng, Mary Pilon

Anticipating a Downgrade of U.S. Debt

 

 

EXPLANATORY

Dailies: 25,000 to 100,000

 

The Roanoke (Va.) Times

Matt Chittum, Megan Schnabel

Food Deserts Parch Roanoke Residents of Nutrition

 

 

Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune

Michael Pollick

In Foreclosure, Fees That Haunt

 

Dailies: 100,000 to 200,000

 

The Providence Journal

Tom Mooney, Paul Edward Parker, Barbara Polichetti

Understanding R.I.’s Pension Puzzle

 

The (Memphis, Tenn.) Commercial Appeal

Ted Evanoff

Genius at Work

 

The Detroit News

David Shepardson, Christina Rogers

GM: A Chastened Detroit Icon Claws Its Way Back

 

Dailies: 200,000 to 500,000

 

The Boston Globe

Jenn Abelson and Beth Daley

Fishy Business

 

The Arizona Republic

Ronald J. Hansen

Business Taxes

 

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Lou Kilzer

China Syndrome

 

Dailies: More than 500,001

 

Washington Post

Lori Montgomery, Brady Dennis, Alec McGillis
Running in the Red – U.S Debt

 

Los Angeles Times

Ken Bensinger

Wheels of Fortune

 

The New York Times

Ian Urbina

Drilling Down—Natural Gas

 

FEATURE

 

Dailies: 25,000 to 100,000

 

(Melbourne, Fla.) Florida Today

Patrick Peterson

Scrap Daddy

 

Times-Tribune (Scranton, Pa.)

Denise Allabaugh

Winds of Change

 

(Melbourne, Fla.) Florida Today

Patrick Peterson

Bright Idea Man

 

 

Dailies: 100,000 to 200,000

 

The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City)

Bryan Painter

Drought

 

 

The Providence (R.I.) Journal

Alex Kuffner

The Toll Oil Prices Take

 

 

The (Montreal) Gazette

Lynn Moore

Playing with Chance

 

 

Dailies: 200,000 to 500,000

 

Financial Times

David Gelles, Gillian Tett

Madoff Spins His Story

 

The Boston Globe

Jenn Abelson and Beth Daley

Fishy Business

 

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Cary Spivak

Demise of Marshall & Ilsley Corporation

 

Dailies: More than 500,001

 

The New York Times

David Segal

The Dirty Little Secrets of Search

 

Detroit Free Press

Katherine Yung

Work Wanted – Desperately

 

 

Los Angeles Times

Alana Semuels

Down but Not Out

 

 

GENERAL EXCELLENCE

Dailies: 25,000 to 100,000

 

The (Quincy, Mass.) Patriot Ledger

Steve Adams, Jon Chesto, Shaunna Gately, Alex Spanko, Patrick Ronan

 

Dailies: 100,000 to 200,000

The Detroit News

Joanna Firestone, Alan Derringer, Richard Burr, Greg Tasker, Mary Bailey, Daniel Howes, Scott Burgess, David Shepardson, Bryce Hoffman, Louis Aguilar, Melissa Burden, Brian O’Connor and Jaclyn Trop

 

The (Montreal) Gazette

Jeff Blond, Paul Delean, Jay Bryan, Francois Shalom, Lynn Moore, Allison Lampert, Jason Magder, Alison MacGregor

 

 

Dailies: 200,000 to 500,000

Financial Times

The Financial Times staff

 

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Journal Sentinel Business News Staff

 

U-T San Diego

Nirmala Bhat, Dean Calbreath, Mike Freeman, Janet LaVelle, Morgan Lee, Lily Leung, Tanya Mannes, Diana McCabe, Greg Schmidt, Roger Showley, Jim Watters, Lori Weisberg

 

Dailies:  More than 500,001

 

 

The New York Times

The New York Times Staff

 

Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times Business Staff

 

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Star Tribune Business Staff

 

 

INVESTIGATIVE

Dailies: Under 25,000

 

American Banker/SourceMedia

Jeff Horwitz, Kate Berry

Revolving Door

 

American Banker/SourceMedia

Jeff Horwitz

Kickbacks

 

American Banker/SourceMedia

Kate Berry

Robo-Signing

 

 

Dailies: 25,000 to 100,000

 

The News-Press (Fort Myers)

Dick Hogan

 

Flopping: Fraud Runs Rampant

Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune

Michael Braga, Matthew Doig

First Priority’s Collapse

 

 

Dailies: 100,000 to 200,000

 

The (Memphis, Tenn.) Commercial Appeal

Daniel Connolly and Amos Maki

Landing Electrolux

 

Knoxville News Sentinel

Josh Flory

Down the Drain

 

The Providence (R.I.) Journal

Paul Edward Parker, Tom Mooney

Uncovering Unfunded Pension Liabilities in Rhode Island

 

 

Dailies:  200,000 to 500,000

 

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Raquel Rutledge, Rick Barrett, John Diedrich, Ben Poston

Shattered Trust

 

The Seattle Times

Michael Berens and Ken Armstrong

Methadone and the Politics of Pain

 

The Orlando Sentinel

Jim Stratton

Workforce Central Florida

 

Dailies: More than 500,001

 

The Wall Street Journal

Paul Sonne, Steve Stecklow, Matt Bradley, Farnaz Fassihi, Loretta Chao, Margaret Coker

Censorship, Inc.

 

The Wall Street Journal

Brody Mullins, Susan Pulliam, Steve Eder, Michael Rothfeld, Jenny Strasburg, Vanessa O’Connell, David Enrich, Dana Cimilluca, Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Jeannette Neumann, Michael Siconolfi

Inside Track

 

USA Today Money Section

Thomas Frank

Public-Sector Pensions

 

 

OPINION/COLUMN

Dailies: 100,000 to 200,000

The Providence (R.I.) Journal

John Kostzrewa, assistant managing editor

 

Hartford Courant

Dan Haar

 

The Detroit News

Brian J. O’Connor

 

 

Dailies:  200,000 to 500,000

 

The Baltimore Sun

Columns by Jay Hancock

 

Financial Times

Columns by John Gapper

 

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Columns by Mitchell Schnurman

 

Dailies: Over 500,001

The New York Times

Gretchen Morgenson

Fair Game

 

Washington Post

Ezra Klein

 

The New York Times

David Carr

The Media Equation

 

CATEGORY: PRINT – MAGAZINES

BLOG

 

SmartMoney Magazine

SmartMoney staff

 

Blog

 

CREATIVE USE ACROSS MULTIPLE PLATFORMS

Magazines: Over 500,000

Forbes

Tom Post, Matthew Schifrin, Jenna Goudreau

Private Equity Chief Lynn Tilton

 

 

EXPLANATORY

Magazines: Less than 75,000

HousingWire

HousingWire editorial staff

 

 

 

Magazines 2: 75,000 to 500,000

New York Magazine

Steve Fishman

Madoff on Madoff: The Madoff Tapes

 

 

Bloomberg Markets

Yoolim Lee, Ruth David

When Microfinance Goes Wrong

 

Bloomberg Markets

Stephanie Baker

Shaking Up the Old Boys Club

 

 

Magazines:  Over 500,001

 

Bloomberg Businessweek

Felix Gillette, Businessweek staff

Casino

 

Fortune Magazine

Adam Lashinsky

Inside Apple

 

SmartMoney Magazine

Matt Heimer, Reshma Kapadia

Investing Reinvented

 

FEATURE

Magazines: Less than 75,000

Columbia Journalism Review

Dean Starkman

Confidence Game: Limited Vision of the News Gurus

 

Mortgage Banking

Terry Sheridan

Short on Results

 

D CEO

Glenn Hunter

Gold Metal Recyclers

 

 

Magazines 2: 75,000 to 500,000

New York Magazine

Steve Fishman

Madoff on Madoff: The Madoff Tapes

 

Institutional Investor

Alexander Osipovich

Browder’s War

 

Bloomberg Markets

Michael Smith

Lethal Commerce

 

 

Magazines: Over 500,001

Forbes

Steven Bertoni

Agent of Disruption

 

Fortune Magazine

David Whitford

Sandler

 

SmartMoney Magazine

Anne Kadet

Cashathon

 

 

GENERAL EXCELLENCE

Magazines: Less than 75,000

 

D CEO Magazine

Glenn Hunter, Christine Perez

 

Magazines: Over 500,001

 

Bloomberg Businessweek

Josh Tyrangiel

 

 

Fortune

Andy Serwer

 

 

Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine

Knight A. Kiplinger, Kevin McCormally, Janet Bodnar

 

 

INVESTIGATIVE

Magazines: 75,000 to 500,000

 

Barron’s

Bill Alpert

The Troubles at Fairholme Fund

 

Bloomberg Markets

Asjylyn Loder, David Evans, Leigh Baldwin, Angela Cullen, Elisa Martinuzzi

The Secret Sins of Koch Industries

 

Bloomberg Markets

Michael Smith, Daryna Krasnolutska, David Glovin

Global Black Market Human Organs

 

Magazines: Over 500,001

Fortune Magazine

Peter Elkind, Jennifer Reingold, Doris Burke

Pfizer

 

OPINION/COLUMN

 

Magazines: Less than 75,000

 

D CEO

Mitchell Schnurman

Bottom Line Columns

 

 

Magazines:  More than 500,001

 

Bloomberg Businessweek

Peter Coy

 

SmartMoney Magazine

Dyan Machan

Smart Ideas

 

 

PRINT – WEEKLIES / BIWEEKLIES

 

BLOG

Indianapolis Business Journal

Anthony Schoettle

The Score

 

Crain’s New York Business

Aaron Elstein

In The Markets

 

BREAKING NEWS

Crain’s Detroit Business

Daniel Duggan, Chad Halcom, Nancy Kaffer, Bill Shea, Sherri Welch

Light Rail Derails

 

Pacific Coast Business Times

Marlize van Romburgh

San Luis Trust Bank Fails

 

Portland Business Journal

Matthew Kish

Wiederhorn Battles Creditors

 

 

CREATIVE USE ACROSS ALL PLATFORMS

Crain’s Chicago Business

Steve Hendershot, Lisa Leitner, Erik Unger, Danny Ecker, Jason McGregor, Jeff Hartvigsen, Karen Freese

State of Small Business

 

 

Indianapolis Business Journal

J.K. Wall, Francesca Jarosz, Mason King, Perry Reichandter
Testing Reform Online

 

EXPLANATORY

Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal

Bill King, Eric Fisher, David Bourne, Brandon McClung,

Second Thoughts: Secondary Market Redefines Ticket Business

 

Los Angeles Business Journal

Richard Clough

Money Machine

 

Mainebiz

Jackie Farwell, Carol Coultas; Jan Holder, Matt Selva

Absolute control

 

 

FEATURE

 

 

Advertising Age

E.J. Schultz

Williston, The Town the Recession Forgot

 

Crain’s New York Business

Elizabeth MacBride, Glenn Coleman, Xana Antunes

The Great Escape

 

Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal

Bill King, Tom Stinson,

Power of the Ring

 

 

 

GENERAL EXCELLENCE

 

Crain’s Chicago Business

Crain’s Chicago Business Staff

 

Los Angeles Business Journal

Los Angeles Business Journal staff

 

Crain’s New York Business

Crain’s New York Business staff

 

 

INVESTIGATIVE

 

Richard Clough

Los Angeles Business Journal

Risky Business

 

Crain’s Chicago Business

Steve Daniels, Paul Merrion

Higher Risk Education: State’s prepaid tuition plan

 

Portland Business Journal

Matthew Kish

Oregon’s Predatory Lending Industry

 

 

OPINION/COLUMN

Charlotte Business Journal

Erik Spanberg

Queen City Agenda Column

 

Portland Business Journal

Rob Smith

Opinions

 

 

RADIO / TV

 

BLOG

CNBC

Patti Domm

Market Insider with Patti Domm

 

 

BREAKING NEWS

CNBC

Mary Thompson, Melissa Lee, Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, Sue Herera, John Harwood , Simon Hobbs, Brian Sullivan, Bill Griffeth, Maria Bartiromo, Steve Liesman, Sharon Epperson, Scott Cohn, Nikhil Deogun, Matthew Quayle, Todd Bonin, Chris Sheridan, Robert Fasbender, Sanford Cannold, Han-Ting Wang, Lulu Chiang

Downgrade Day

 

CREATIVE USE ACROSS MULTIPLE PLATFORMS

 

CNBC

Stacy Eisner, Alexandra Privitera, Mary Catherine Wellons, Gina Francolla, Mark Koba, Eamon Javers, Nikhil Deogun

Your Money Your Vote: The Republican Presidential Debate

 

 

EXPLANATORY

CNBC

Kate Kelly; Jesse Bergman, Nikhil Deogun

Trading on Twitter

 

MarketWatch Radio Network

John Wordock, Andrew O’Day, Larry Kofsky, Adrienne Mitchell, Steve Orr

Wall Street’s Wild Week — S&P Downgrade, the Fed and Historic Stock Swings

 

 

FEATURE

CNBC

Mitch Weitzner,  Lori Gordon-Logan,  Michael Beyman,  Patrick Ahearn, Richard Korn, Michael Sheehan, Allison Stedman, Lester Holt, Ray Borelli

Pepsi’s Challenge

 

REAL ESTATE

 

The Baltimore Sun

Jamie Smith Hopkins, Scott Calvert

Taxing Baltimore

 

Denver Post

David Migoya

Public Trustee – Foreclosure Reporting

 

The Miami Herald

Toluse Olorunnipa

Real Estate Coverage

 

STUDENT

Stories Written for Student Publications

 

Elvina Nawaguna-Clemente, Arizona State University

Deteriorated Properties Prompt Battles Between Struggling Towns, Professor

Cronkite News

 

Honorable Mention

 

Robson Abbott, University of Missouri

Les Bourgeois Becoming Force in Missouri Wine Industry

Columbia Missourian

 

Daniel Wiser, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Unsustainable Path

The Daily Tar Heel

 

 

Stories Written for Professional Publications

 

Sarah Frier, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jefferson County Agony Means Higher Borrowing Costs for Alabama Taxpayers

Bloomberg News

 

Honorable Mention

Tarini Parti, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tobacco companies adjusting strategies to remain prominent political players

OpenSecrets.org

 

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