SABEW names Best in Business winners
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SABEW names Best in Business winners

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The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing Thursday announced the 162 recipients for its 27th annual Best in Business Awards, honoring excellence in business journalism.

Published, broadcast and/or posted in 2021 for business, financial and economic work, the Best in Business Awards attracted a record 1,277 entries from 194 news organizations across all platforms, ranging from international, national and regional news broadcasts to specialist business publications.

“The Best in Business contest, with a 20% increase in submissions, has shown us once again what great journalism has been produced over the past year,” said Joanna Ossinger, co-chair of the Best in Business Awards and editor at Bloomberg News, in a statement. “This was an extremely competitive and impressive field.”

Some of the 2021 winning business stories that made an impact came from team reporting, such as The Wall Street Journal’s investigative work on Facebook on how the social media giant “injured its more than 3 billion users.” The Financial Times team’s cover sheet won in the banking/finance category, examining the “deep dive into why entrepreneurs from communities of color have a harder time getting credit and why it’s more expensive.”

Individual journalists receiving recognition for exceptional reporting in SABEW’s latest Best Range of Work award category include: Sam Dean from the Los Angeles Times, Alex Heath from The Verge and Nathan Rubbelke of the St. Louis Business Journal. Another strong example of individual work comes from: Lauren Smiley‘s rambunctious piece for Wired, with the great headline: “He thought he could outsmart the gig economy. He was wrong.”

Highlights include:

  • The top three winners of the most overall awards are The Wall Street Journal (13 total; six winners plus seven commendations), Bloomberg (12 total; nine winners plus three commendations), and The New York Times (11 total; five winners and six honorable mentions).
  • First entry prize winners to take home awards included new SABEW members Nikkei Asia (five in total; three winners plus honorable mentions) and Chicago Booth Review (two winners).
  • General Excellence award winners who demonstrate depth and breadth of quality by submitting at least one element from three of the five coverage areas, including The Counter (Industry/Topic Specific category), The Wall Street Journal (Large category), Nikkei Asia (medium category), and Crain’s Detroit Business (small category).
  • In the small organizations category, these news organizations won multiple awards: The Counter (six in total; four winners plus two commendations) and the Portland Business Journal (five in total; two winners plus three commendations). Chicago Booth Review, St. Louis Business Journal and Quartz won two awards.
  • Carolina News & Reporter, the University of South Carolina’s student-run newsroom, and the University of Nevada-Reno’s The Hitchcock Project’s Reynolds School of Journalism won the top awards for student journalism. University of South Carolina student Emma Dooling was recognized for her work with Nashville Business Journal.

“With 31 competition categories, the judges had a plethora of creative, innovative and thought-provoking content to consider,” said Scott Wenger, co-chair of the Best in Business Awards and chief content officer at VolpeMiller. “Winning stories, team reporting to individual features, either raised the most critical issues we face today and pleaded for a solution to actually force change. Entries in the student journalism categories clearly showed the growing talent and ambition of the next generation of journalists.”

View the full list of 2021 BIS fees.

Honorees will be celebrated at a reception at SABEW’s annual conference, May 12-13, at the Dotdash Meredith office in New York’s Financial District.

Tickets for #SABEW22 are available and Best in Business honors will receive a special rate of $199.

The Best in Business celebration is on Thursday 12 May.