Reuters wins five US awards for business journalism

Reuters won for General Excellence, News Agency, beating Bloomberg and the Associated Press for its second consecutive win in the category. Bloomberg led the awards with wins in 13 categories.

The judges said: “Reuters excelled in a tough field with an entry that showed strength in core business-news reporting and exceptional enterprise journalism that displayed courage, ambition and mastery of new storytelling techniques. Where Reuters clearly excelled was with its two enterprise pieces - Assets of the Ayatollah, and Connected China. Both pieces shed light on stories about two of the most important - and opaque - nations on Earth: Iran and China. Great journalism married with great design. Reuters broke ground with its insightful piece of what Janet Yellen, now the head of the Federal Reserve, knew about the troubled housing market in California before the subprime bubble burst.”

More than 200 working journalists and academics served as judges, sifting through a record 1,123 entries from 181 news outlets across 72 categories.

Awards will be presented on 29 March at SABEW’s annual conference at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in Phoenix.

This year’s Reuters winners:

• NEWS AGENCIES: GENERAL EXCELLENCE

Reuters

• NEWS AGENCIES: INVESTIGATIVE

Scot Paltrow and Kelly Carr, for “Unaccountable”

• NEWS AGENCIES: EXPLANATORY

Michelle Conlin, Brian Grow, for “They Own the House, but Not What Lies Beneath”

• INTERNATIONAL: INVESTIGATIVE

Steve Stecklow, Babak Dehghanpisheh, Yeganeh Torbati, for “Assets of the Ayatollah”

• INTERNATIONAL: COMMENTARY

Andy Mukherjee, Peter Thal Larsen, for Breakingviews commentary.

Reuters entries were finalists in three other categories of the annual competition:

• DIGITAL: COMMENTARY

Rob Cox, for “Economics of Gun Safety”

• INTERNATIONAL: EXPLANATORY

Steve Stecklow, Babak Dehghanpisheh, Yeganeh Torbati, for “Assets of the Ayatollah”

• NEWS AGENCIES: EXPLANATORY

Scot Paltrow, Kelly Carr, for “Unaccountable”. ■