Congratulations to our 2024 honorees! The Best in Business Awards attracted 1,103 entries from 181 news organizations, ranging from international, national and regional news outlets to specialized business publications.
Banking/Finance
Large division
Winner – The Wall Street Journal; Overworked: How Wall Street Pushes Young Bankers to the Edge
Alexander Saeedy
Honorable Mention – Reuters; Wall Street banks’ capital fight
Pete Schroeder, Michelle Price
Medium division
Winner – The Minnesota Star Tribune; Star Tribune Banking
Mike Hughlett
Small division
Winner – The Information; Risky Online Payments
Michael Roddan, Qianer Liu
Honorable Mention – Chicago Booth Review; A Golden Age for Green Investment?
Neil Weinberg, Vanessa Sumo
Best Range of Work
Large division
Winner – The Wall Street Journal; Ben Cohen and the Stories of Success
Ben Cohen
Honorable Mention – The New York Times; Natasha Singer
Natasha Singer
Medium division
Winner – The Minnesota Star Tribune; Mike Hughlett – Best Range of Work
Mike Hughlett
Small Division
Winner – STAT; Matthew Herper’s coverage of health and medicine
Matthew Herper
Honorable Mention – ImpactAlpha; David Bank
David Bank
Honorable Mention – St. Louis Business Journal; James Drew
James Drew
Breaking News
Large division
Winner – Bloomberg News; The CEO Killing That Shocked the World
Myles Miller, John Tozzi, Antonia Mufarech, David Voreacos, Cynthia Koons
Honorable Mention – The Wall Street Journal; Inside the Alaska Airlines Blowout: ‘Is It OK if I Hold Your Hand?’
Alison Sider, Patience Haggin, Allison Pohle, Sharon Terlep
Medium and small division
Winner – Baltimore Business Journal; Key Bridge collapse
Garrett Dvorkin, Paul J. Gough, Matt Hooke, Melody Simmons, Joanna Sullivan
Honorable Mention – The Minnesota Star Tribune; United Healthcare CEO murder
Christopher Snowbeck, Jeremy Olson, Victor Stefanescu, Paul Walsh, Jessie Van Berkel
Commentary/Opinion
Large division
Winner – Washington Post; Scammed
Michelle Singletary
Honorable Mention – The Wall Street Journal; Elon Musk’s Embrace of Politics
Tim Higgins
Medium division
Winner – Detroit News; Daniel Howes columns on MSU management, federal auto policy and GM’s reinvention
Daniel Howes
Honorable Mention – The Boston Globe; Chesto Means Business
Jon Chesto
Small division
Winner – Crain’s Chicago Business; Crain’s Chicago Business editorials
Ann Dwyer
Honorable Mention – STAT; Truth-teller on the biotech industry
Adam Feuerstein
Data Journalism
Large division
Winner – The Wall Street Journal; Medicare Inc.: How Giant Insurers Make Billions Off Seniors
Christopher Weaver, Tom McGinty, Anna Wilde Mathews, Mark Maremont, Andrew Mollica
Honorable Mention – The New York Times; Housing Insurance Insecurity
Christopher Flavelle, Mira Rojanasakul
Medium division
Winner – A collaboration of OCCRP, E24 and 70+ media outlets; Dubai Unlocked
Antonio Baquero Iglesia, Martin Young, Kevin G. Hall, Eiliv Frich Flydal, Jessica Purkiss
Honorable Mention – A collaboration of The Examination and Houston Chronicle; Oil companies leak toxic gas across Texas — making local residents sick
Will Evans, Caroline Ghisolfi, Amanda Drane, Amelia Winger
Small division
Winner – St. Louis Business Journal; Maddy Simpson’s Data Package
Maddy Simpson
Honorable Mention – Sherwood Media; Hard to explain but easy to see: Data visualizations on groceries, stocks, and Teslas
J. Edward Moreno, Rani Molla, David Crowther, Matt Phillips
Economics
Large division
Winner – The New York Times; The Migrant Pipeline
Steve Eder, Danielle Ivory, Marcela Valdes, Churchill Ndonwie
Honorable Mention – A collaboration of the Associated Press, AL.com, Dallas Morning News, Idaho Education News, Seattle Times and Education Reporting Collaborative; America’s child care crisis is holding back moms without college degrees
Moriah Balingit, Sharon Lurye, Daniel Beekman, Carly Flandro, Valeria Olivares and Alaina Bookman
Medium division
Winner – Nikkei Asia; Chinese exports rattle the world
Cissy Zhou, Stella Yifan Xie, Francesca Regalado, Erwida Maulia, Norman Goh
Honorable Mention – The Guardian; The Confidence Question
Lauren Aratani
Small division
Winner – Inside Climate News; Politically Charged
Marianne Lavelle, Dan Gearino
Energy/Sustainability/Climate Change
Large division
Winner – The New York Times; Buying Time
David Gelles, Eric Lipton, Brad Plumer, Raymond Zhong
Honorable Mention – Bloomberg Green; The Climate Cost of AI
Bloomberg Staff
Medium division
Winner – San Antonio Express-News; In Broad Daylight
Sara DiNatale
Honorable Mention – The Arizona Republic; Power Play: Why Utility Executives Push Gas-Fired Power In Rural Arizona, Where Solar Would Thrive
Joan Meiners
Small division
Winner – Inside Climate News; Cashing Out
Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz
Explanatory
Large division
Winner – Bloomberg Opinion; The Global Climate Crisis
David Fickling
Honorable Mention – Business Insider; Inside workers’ fracturing relationship with employers
Aki Ito, Eric Bates
Honorable Mention – Washington Post; Power Grab: How AI firms are pushing the U.S. into an energy crisis
Evan Halper, Caroline O’Donovan, Pranshu Verma
Medium division
Winner – Fortune Magazine; How Boeing Broke Down
Shawn Tully
Honorable Mention – KFF Health News; A Pandemic Threat: How the US Lost Control of Bird Flu
Amy Maxmen, Nathan Payne
Honorable Mention – A collaboration of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Milwaukee PBS; Reshoring: How Wisconsin factory work is returning from China
Rick Barrett, Mark Hoffman
Small division
Winner – Bridge Michigan; Michigan’s Expensive Incentives Produce Few (and Low Paying) Jobs
Paula Gardner
Honorable Mention – STAT; How invisible medical groups are powering telehealth’s GLP-1 ‘gold rush’
Katie Palmer
Honorable Mention – The Information; Trade ‘Loophole’ Spurs New Retail Economy
Theo Wayt, Ann Gehan
Feature
Large division
Winner – Bloomberg Businessweek; The Egg
Bloomberg Staff
Honorable Mention – Business Insider; In Cold Blood
Brendan Borrell, Edith Honan
Honorable Mention – The New Yorker; Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster
Charles Duhigg
Medium division
Winner – Wired; Priscila, Queen of the Rideshare Mafia
Lauren Smiley
Honorable Mention – The News & Observer; Forging Fortnite: How a North Carolina studio made the world’s biggest game
Brian Gordon
Honorable Mention – Fortune Magazine; Hot Mess
Indrani Sen
Small division
Winner – A collaboration of Inside Climate News and The Assembly; Gaslighting
Lisa Sorg
Honorable Mention – Civil Eats; The Hard Work of Bringing Kelp to Market
Alexandra Talty
Honorable Mention – STAT; This father built a gene therapy for his son. Now comes the harder part: saving others’ children, too
Jason Mast
General Excellence
Industry/topic-specific publications
Winner – The Examination; The Examination: Investigating health threats and empowering communities
Staff
Large division
Winner – Bloomberg News
Honorable Mention – Reuters
Medium division
Winner – Barron’s
Catherine Dunn, Reshma Kapadia, Molly Cook Escobar, Matt Peterson, Elizabeth O’Brien
Honorable Mention – The Seattle Times
Small division
Winner – STAT: Tough-minded and authoritative journalism
Honorable Mention – Crain’s New York Business
Government
Large division
Winner – The Wall Street Journal; The Sprawling Chinese Hack That Took America by Surprise
Sarah Krouse, Dustin Volz, Aruna Viswanatha, Robert McMillan, Drew FitzGerald
Honorable Mention – Business Insider; Locked Out
Cecilia Reyes, Esther Kaplan
Medium division
Winner – KFF Health News; A Pandemic Threat: How the US Lost Control of Bird Flu
Amy Maxmen, Nathan Payne
Honorable Mention – The Boston Globe; High and Dry: Inside Boston’s broken liquor license system
Shirley Leung and Diti Kohli
Small division
Winner – International Consortium of Investigative Journalists; Inside the IRS
Spencer Woodman, Denise Ajiri, Jelena Cosic, Delphine Reuter, Carmen Molina Acosta
Honorable Mention – Capital & Main; California Inmates Say They Urgently Need Workplace Heat Standards — but the State Has Delayed Adopting Them
Hilary Beaumont
Health/Science
Large division
Winner – The Egg
Bloomberg Staff
Honorable Mention – The New York Times; Abuses at Acadia Healthcare
Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Katie Thomas
Honorable Mention – A collaboration of NBC News and Noticias Telemundo ; Dealing the Dead
Staff
Medium division
Winner – A collaboration of The Examination and Houston Chronicle; Oil companies leak toxic gas across Texas — making local residents sick
Will Evans, Caroline Ghisolfi, Amanda Drane, Amelia Winger
Honorable Mention – A collaboration of OCCRP and The Boston Globe; How Private Equity and an Ambitious Landlord Put Steward Health Care on Life Support
Khadija Sharife, Jacob Borg, Brian Fitzpatrick, Tom Stocks, Kira Zalan
Honorable Mention – The Boston Globe; The bittersweet reality of a new Alzheimer’s drug
Jonathan Saltzman
Small division
Winner – Inside Climate News; Captured: How pesticide regulators place industry profits above public health
Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous
Honorable Mention – STAT; The War on Recovery
Lev Facher
International Reporting
Large division
Winner – Bloomberg Businessweek; Inside Peru’s Secret Luxury Supply Chain
Marcelo Rochabrun, Daniel Ferrara, Julianne Wilkinson, Bianca Rosario Ramirez
Honorable Mention – Bloomberg News; Africa’s Failed Biometrics
Tomas Statius, Oliva Solon, Beatriz Ramalho da Silva
Honorable Mention – The New York Times; Tech/Chips/Trade
Ana Swanson, Aaron Krolik, Paul Mozur, Claire Fu
Medium and small division
Winner – OCCRP; Iraq’s Dollar Auction: The ‘Monster’ Funneling Billions to Fraudsters and Militants Through the Fed
Aisha Kehoe Down, Lara Dihmis, Rana Sabbagh, Kevin G. Hall
Honorable Mention – The Information; TSMC at Center of U.S. – China Tension
Qianer Liu
Investigative
Large division
Winner – The Wall Street Journal; Musk Above the Law
WSJ Staff
Honorable Mention – A collaboration of NBC News and Noticias Telemundo ; Dealing the Dead
NBC News and Noticias Telemundo Staff
Honorable Mention – The New York Times; The Migrant Pipeline
Steve Eder, Danielle Ivory, Marcela Valdes, Churchill Ndonwie
Medium division
Winner – A collaboration of The Boston Globe and OCCRP; Globe Spotlight coverage of Steward Health Care
Globe staff, with contributions by the OCCRP
Honorable Mention – A collaboration of Chicago Tribune and Better Government Association; Cook County Assessor Misclassifies Hundreds of Properties, Missing $444M in One Year Alone
Alex Nitkin, A.D. Quig, Cam Rodriguez
Honorable Mention – KFF Health News; The Only Hospital in Town
Brett Kelman, Samantha Liss
Small division
Winner – STAT; Health Care’s Colossus
Bob Herman, Tara Bannow, Casey Ross, Lizzy Lawrence
Honorable Mention – Civil Eats; Chemical Capture
Lisa Held
Investing/Markets
Large division
Winner – Bloomberg News; Easy Money
Bloomberg Staff
Honorable Mention – Washington Post; The dramatic rise and fall of Trump’s Truth Social
Drew Harwell
Medium division
Winner – Barron’s; Investigating Annuities
Jacob Adelman
Small division
Winner – The Information; Who Needs an IPO?
Cory Weinberg, Sri Muppidi
Media/Entertainment
Large division
Winner – Reuters; OnlyFans Exposed
Linda So, Andrew R.C. Marshall, Jason Szep and the Reuters team
Honorable Mention – The New York Times; The Murdoch Family Battle
Jim Rutenberg, Jonathan Mahler
Medium and small division
Winner – Barron’s; The Gateway to Gambling for Kids
Nick Devor
Newsletter
Large division
Winner – The New York Times; DealBook
The DealBook staff
Honorable Mention – The Wall Street Journal; Lingling Wei’s newsletter takes WSJ readers inside China
Lingling Wei
Medium division
Winner – Axios; 2024: The Media Campaign
Sara Fischer
Small division
Winner – Endpoints News; Endpoints Health Tech
Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer, Shelby Livingston, Ngai Yeung
Honorable Mention – Inside Climate News; Inside Clean Energy
Dan Gearino
Personal Finance
Large division
Winner – The Wall Street Journal; The Growing Toll of Caregiving
Clare Ansberry, Anne Tergesen
Medium division
Winner – A collaboration of KFF Health News, 9NEWS, Colorado News Collaborative, Colorado Newsline and The Colorado Sun; Diagnosis: Debt Colorado
Rae Ellen Bichell, Chris Vanderveen, John Ingold, Lindsey Toomer, Sara Wilson
Honorable Mention – Barron’s; Financial Risks for Retirees
Elizabeth O’Brien
Small division
Winner – Capital and Main; Surviving on $1,800 a Month in Social Security, She Died Looking for a Place to Live
Jessica Goodheart, Barbara Davidson
Podcast/Audio
Large division
Winner – Washington Post; The FBI called. Then she got scammed.
Charla Freeland, Michelle Singletary
Honorable Mention – Bloomberg News; Foundering: The OpenAI story
Ellen Huet, Shawn Wen
Medium division
Winner – A collaboration of KFF Health News and Public Road Productions; An Arm and a Leg
Dan Weissmann, Emily Pisacreta, Claire Davenport, Ellen Weiss, Adam Raymonda
Small division
Winner – KUOW; Why are Seattle sports games so expensive? We looked into that and ways to save.
Joshua McNichols, Lucy Soucek, Jennie Cecil Moore, Monica Nickelsburg, Carol Smith
Real Estate
Large division
Winner – Bloomberg Green; Uncovered in the U.S.
Bloomberg Staff
Honorable Mention – The New York Times; Housing America
Conor Dougherty
Medium division
Winner – The Miami Herald; Rigged
Ben Wieder, Brittany Wallman
Honorable Mention – Marketplace; The Golden Triangle: How the CHIPS Act is changing one Arizona neighborhood
Kai Ryssdal, Maria Hollenhorst, Nancy Farghalli, Juan Carlos Torrado, Charlton Thorp
Small division
Winner – The Real Deal; The End of the A-Team
Sheridan Wall, Katherine Kallergis, Ellen Cranley
Honorable Mention – The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal; Downtown Minneapolis property tax fights
Caitlin Anderson, Ethan Nelson, Dirk DeYoung, Nancy Kuehn
Honorable Mention – A collaboration of Project on Government Oversight and Mother Jones; From Toxic Mold to Rampant Fraud: How Privatizing Military Housing Became a Nightmare for Soldiers
René Kladzyk
Retail
Large division
Winner – Washington Post; McDonald’s Child Labor Problems
Lauren Gurley, Emmanuel Martinez, Julia Mata
Honorable Mention – The Wall Street Journal; The Harsh Math of America’s Crushing Food Bills
Jesse Newman, Heather Haddon, Ruth Simon, Stephanie Stamm
Medium division
Winner – The Boston Globe; Pharmacy deserts
Diti Kohli, Tiana Woodard, Daigo Fujiwara-Smith, Thomas Lee
Honorable Mention – Barron’s; Shop ‘Til You Drop: Luxury, Convenience and Online Addiction
Teresa Rivas
Small division
Winner – THE CITY; New York’s Cannabis Legalization ‘Disaster’
Rosalind Adams
Honorable Mention – The Information; What’s Really in Your Shopping Cart? Shein and Temu’s Hidden Costs
Jing Yang, Ann Gehan, Theo Wayt
Small Business
Large division
Winner – The Wall Street Journal; The Death Industry
Dominique Mosbergen
Medium and small division
Winner – Fortune Magazine; Hot Mess
Indrani Sen
Honorable Mention – The Information; Crunch Time for Consumer Funders
Ann Gehan
Student Journalism
Winner – Cronkite News at ASU; Lithium Liabilities
Reporters at the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism ASU
Technology
Large division
Winner – Financial Times; Is Telegram’s Pavel Durov running a new ’dark web’?
Hannah Murphy, Adrienne Klasa, Polina Ivanova, Christopher Miller
Honorable Mention – The New York Times; Car Tracking
Kashmir Hill
Medium division
Winner – Marketplace; What $42 billion means for nationwide broadband expansion
Kai Ryssdal, Nancy Farghalli, Andie Corban, Sarah Leeson, Brian Allison
Honorable Mention – Fortune Magazine; The Vigilance of Satya Nadella
Jeremy Kahn
Small division
Winner – The Information; TikTok’s High-Wire Act in Washington
Juro Osawa, Jing Yang, Sri Muppidi, Erin Woo
Honorable Mention – Capital and Main; In Rural Pennsylvania, Crypto Mining Offers a Lifeline for Dying Gas Wells
Audrey Carleton
The Business of Sports
Large division
Winner – ESPN; Bad Bets: The Shohei Ohtani & Ippei Mizuhara Investigation
Tisha Thompson, Elaine Teng, Mike Drago, Chris Buckle
Medium division
Winner – AL.com; Alabama’s top NIL collectives
Hannah Denham
Honorable Mention – St. Louis Post-Dispatch; How the Centene Ice Center went from ‘great’ win to cash crunch and taxpayer bailouts
Steph Kukuljan
Small division
Winner – St. Louis Business Journal; Nathan Rubbelke’s Sports Package
Nathan Rubbelke
Honorable Mention – Sportico; March Madness Daily
Eben Novy-Williams, Daniel Libit, Lev Akabas, Michael McCann, Jacob Feldman
Travel/Transportation
Large division
Winner – The Wall Street Journal; Inside Boeing’s Factory Mess
Sharon Terlep, Andrew Tangel, Jon Sindreu
Honorable Mention – Bloomberg Businessweek; The EV Winter
David Welch, Keith Naughton, Keith Laing, Erik Schatzker, Gabrielle Coppola
Medium division
Winner – The Seattle Times; Blowout/fallout
Dominic Gates, Lauren Rosenblatt, Paige Cornwell, Patrick Malone
Small division
Winner – The Information; Turmoil at Tesla
Steve LeVine, Becky Peterson
Video
Large division
Winner – The Wall Street Journal; The Hidden Autopilot Data That Reveals Why Teslas Crash
WSJ Staff
Honorable Mention – CNBC; Ozempic Underworld: The Black Market of Obesity Drugs
Melissa Lee, Scott Zamost, Eunice Yoon, David Lettieri, Charlie Roth
Medium and small division
Winner – Bloomberg Industry Group; Rare Toads or Clean Energy? An Environmental Law Fight in Nevada
Andrew Satter, Josh Block, Daniel Moore
