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Tuesday, April 16, 2002
SABEW Announces Best in Business Winners
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers Inc.
(SABEW) has named the winners in its eighth annual Best in Business
contest, which recognizes the best overall publications and
best breaking news and spot enterprise reporting in business
journalism during 2001. SABEW,
headquartered at the Missouri School of Journalism, is an
association of more than 3,000 business journalists in North
America.
568 entries from daily newspapers, business
weeklies, wire services and business news online sites were
received, including 454 stories or story packages in the news
portion of the contest.
Last year, the contest received 492 total entries.
Judges handed out a special award for "Extraordinary Achievement"
to The Wall Street Journal for its coverage of the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks. It was the first time in the contest's
eight-year history that a special award was given out.
The judges said: "Sometimes awards that exist are inadequate to recognize
the magnitude of an accomplishment. So it is this year with the
Wall Street Journal's first-day coverage of the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks. Newsrooms across the country reacted swiftly
to the events of Sept. 11 and produced an array of business
coverage on Sept. 12, including stories on paralyzed airlines,
closed financial markets, a waning economy, the buying of guns,
and jacked-up gas prices. Fine packages were entered in this
contest from newspapers of all sizes.
"But none can compare with the Wall Street Journal. A
prescient front-page takeout explored the issue of lax airport
security, identifying problem areas that would become topics
of national debate for months. Other stories covered the
closed financial markets, World Trade Center tenants, and
the effects of the attacks on the economy, energy prices and
insurers.
"If the Journal's offices had been in midtown Manhattan,
the paper would have been the clear winner in the Giant
newspaper category. But to have produced stories of this
breadth, with this much context and insight, after many
staff members literally fled for their lives and the ranks
did not know whether senior editors had survived is an
unparalleled accomplishment worthy of special recognition."
Other highlights of the contest included:
- Seventeen daily or weekly publications were named Best
in Business for overall excellence, and five were recognized
with certificates of merit. The Boston Globe won for the
fourth straight year, the San Jose Mercury News won for the
third straight year and USA Today, the Portland Oregonian,
Las Vegas Sun and Cincinnati Business Courier were repeat winners.
- A dozen news organizations were named Best in Business
for breaking news coverage. This category recognizes news
organizations that produced superior work under tight deadlines.
- Seventeen were named Best in Business for Spot Enterprise,
a category that honors work that is timely but provides a
broader, more analytical look at an issue.
The SABEW Best in Business contest was started in 1995 to
help set standards and recognize role models for outstanding
business journalism.
Awards will be presented Monday, April 29, at the Pointe
Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort in Phoenix, Ariz., during SABEW's
39th annual conference. Winning sections will be on display
at the hotel. Judges' comments for all winners will be available
on April 15th at the organization
website.
Best in Business winners for overall excellence, by
category and listed in alphabetical: (Judges
could name up to five winners in each category)
GIANT (General-interest newspapers with average daily circulation
375,001 and above)
- Boston Globe
- Dallas Morning News
- San Francisco Chronicle
- Washington Post
- USA Today
LARGE (Newspapers with circulation 250,001 -375,000)
- The Portland Oregonian
- San Jose Mercury News
Certificates of merit: The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), The Orlando
(Fla.) Sentinel
MID-SIZED (Newspapers with circulation 125,001-250,000)
- The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.
- The State, Columbia, S.C.
- The World-Herald, Omaha, Neb.
Certificates of Merit: St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer-Press, Montreal
Gazette
SMALL (Newspapers with circulation up to 125,000)
- Santa Rosa (Calif.) Press-Democrat
- Las Vegas Sun
- Waterbury Republican-American
Certificate of Merit: The Columbian in Vancouver, Wash.
BUSINESS WEEKLIES
- Cincinnati Business Courier
- Electronic Media
- Crain's Chicago Business
- Washington (D.C.) Business Journal
NEWS CONTEST
Best in Business Breaking News winners, by category and in
alphabetical order: (Judges could name up to three winners in each
category)
GIANT (Newspapers with circulation over 375,001)
- Newsday, "Texas investor mounts proxy fight for Computer
Associates," by staff.
- Washington Post, "Microsoft Breakup Order Reversed," by James V.
Grimaldi, Carrie Johnson, Jonathan Krim, Ariana Cha, Alex Klein, Carol
Vincent.
LARGE (Newspapers with circulation 250,001 -375,000)
- Seattle Times, "Boeing Bolts," by Kyung Song, Stephen H. Dunphy
and staff.
- Cleveland Plain Dealer, "LTV Shutdown Begins," by Jennifer Scott
Cimperman.
- New Orleans Times-Picayune, "Entergy and FPL pull the plug on
merger," by Keith Darce, Mary Judice, Susan Finch, John Biers
MID-SIZE (Newspapers with circulation 125,001-250,000)
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer, "Boeing Picks Chicago," by James
Wallace
- Contra Costa (Calif.) Times, "PG&E Unplugged," by staff
- Louisville Courier-Journal, "Mysterious disease killing foals at
state's horse farms," by Kirsten Haukebo
SMALL (Newspapers with circulation up to 125,000)
- Erie (Pa.) Times-News, "IP to close," by staff
- The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, "IBM lays off 500," by Aki
Soga, Sue Robinson, Leslie Wright, Cadence Mertz
WEEKLIES
- Silicon Valley Business Ink, "Sharks fishing for new owners," by
Christina Bellantoni
- Dayton Business Journal, "Brokers dropping Dean," by Patrick L.
Thimangu
REAL-TIME
- CNET News.com, "Microsoft's reprieve," by staff
Best in Business Spot Enterprise winners: (Judges could name up to
three winners in each category)
GIANT (Newspapers with circulation over 375,001)
- Star Tribune, Minneapolis, "More bans, less help for smokers,"
by David Phelps and Deborah Caulfield Rybak
- The Wall Street Journal, "Corporate Veil: Behind Enron's fall, a
culture of operating outside the public's view," by John R. Emshwiller
and Rebecca Smith
- The Washington Post, "Stocks to trade Monday with special rule,"
by Kathleen Day and John M. Berry
LARGE (Newspapers with circulation 250,001-375,000)
- The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), "The last shift," by Tom
Breckenridge, Peter Krouse, Sandra Livingston, Jennifer Scott
Cimperman, Thomas W. Gerdel, Alison Grant, Karen Farkas, Mya Frazier
- The Detroit News, "Age bias claims jolt Ford culture change," by
Mark Truby
- The New Orleans Times-Picayune, "The art of the deal," by
Rebecca Mowbray
MID-SIZED (Newspapers with circulation 125,001-250,000)
- Richmond Times-Dispatch, "The great baby bottle battle," by Bob
Rayner
- Charlotte Observer, "Students see strong future in textiles
jobs" by Tony Mecia - Hartford Courant, "A company works to carry on,"
by Matthew Kauffman
SMALL (Newspapers with circulation up to 125,000)
- Huntsville (Ala.) Times, "The Rocket's Red Ink," by Brian Lawson
- The Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore., "Dealmaker," by Joe Harwood,
Susan Palmer and Christian Wihtol
- The Daily Record, Baltimore, "Power (Plant) Surge," by Amy L.
Bernstein
WEEKLIES
- Atlanta Business Chronicle, "Georgia's tax giveaway," by
Meredith Jordan
- Orange County Business Journal, "Change sweeping through Baja's
Border Plants," by Chris Cziborr
- Washington Business Journal, "The National question," by Mike
Sunnucks
REAL-TIME
- Bloomberg News, "El Paso Corp. secured off-balance sheet
financing" by Russell Hubbard
- Dow Jones Newswires, "Treasury's 30-year bond news relayed by
consultant during embargo" by John Connor
- Bloomberg News, "Khashoggi firm may have kept $125 million as
stock fell," by David Evans
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