The Society of American Business Editors and Writers has named the winners in its 12th annual Best in Business contest, which recognizes the best sections or publications, as well as the best breaking news, enterprise and projects reporting in business journalism during 2006.
The contest received 761 entries from daily and weekly newspapers, magazines, wire services, and Web sites.
SABEW started the Best in Business contest in 1995 to help set standards and recognize role models for outstanding business journalism.
Awards will be presented Sunday, May 20, in Anaheim during SABEW's 44th annual conference. The judges' comments about the winners will be posted soon on www.sabew.org. Additional information about the conference and SABEW is available at that site as well.
The Best in Business winners
(in alphabetical order, by publication, for each contest and size category)
Overall excellence, sections or publications
Giant newspapers (average daily circulation 375,001 and above)
The New York Times
The Star-Ledger (Newark, N.J.)
USA Today
Certificates
of merit: The Arizona Republic, Houston Chronicle
Large newspapers (circulation from 250,001 to 375,000)
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
San Jose
Mercury News
Medium newspapers (circulation from 125,001 to 250,000)
Des Moines Register
Detroit News
The Hartford Courant
The
Seattle Times
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Certificates of
merit: Salt Lake Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press
and The Tennessean
(Nashville)
Small newspapers (circulation 125,000 and below)
Florida Today (Melbourne, Fla.)
The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa,
Calif.)
The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, Va.)
Certificate of merit:
The Post and Courier (Charleston, S.C.)
Weekly Business newspapers
Advertising Age
Baltimore Business Journal
Business First of
Louisville
Crain's Chicago Business
Certificates
of merit: Boston Business Journal, Puget Sound Business Journal, Street
and Smith's Sports Business Journal
Breaking News coverage
Giant newspapers
Stephen Heuser, Robert Gavin, Steven Syre, Jeffrey Krasner, Erica Noonan, Emily Shartin and Bennie DiNardo of The Boston Globe: "Boston Scientific's acquisition of Guidant
Greg Burns, David Greising, Susan Chandler, Susan Diesenhouse and Julie Johnsson of the Chicago Tribune: "Board of Trade-Mercantile Exchange merger
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Matt Richtel, Miguel Helft and John Markoff of The New York Times: "Google's YouTube deal
Large newspapers
Bruce Finley, Tom McGhee, Christine Tatum, Kieran Nicholson, Greg Griffin, Kristi Arellano, David Migoya and Christopher Osher of The Denver Post for "Raids at Swift plants
Mike Ellis, John Gallagher, Ron Dzwonkowski, Jennifer Dixon, Susan Tompor and Margarita Bauza of the Detroit Free Press: "GM Alliance: "Power play shakes Motor City
Therese Poletti, Sarah Jane Tribble, Howard Mintz, Mike Langberg, Michelle Quinn, Donna Alvarado and Michele Chandler of the San Jose Mercury News: "Inside the HP privacy drama
Medium newspapers
Steve Harrison, Rick Rothacker, Andrew Shain, Mike Drummond, Ames Alexander, Stella M. Hopkins, Christopher Kirkpatrick and Tony Mecia of The Charlotte Observer: "Creditors, feds key to air takeover bid
Francis X. Donnelly, Christine Tierney and Bryce G. Hoffman of the Detroit News: "Blue Friday
Detroit News team: "New Ford CEO
Small newspapers
Kathy Jumper, Andy Netzel and Mark Inabinett of the Mobile Press-Register: "Prichard wins
Kurt Blumenau and Sam Kennedy of The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.): "Agere bought out
Jerry Siebenmark and Bill Wilson of The Wichita Eagle: "Beechcraft is back
Weekly newspapers
Claire Atkinson, Brooke Capps, Matthew Creamer, Alice Z. Cuneo, Mya Frazier, Bob Garfield, Jeremy Mullman, Jack Neff and Lisa Sanders of Advertising Age: "Julie and the scandal that rocked the ad world
Christine Perez of the Dallas Business Journal: "HUD secretary's blunt warning
Real-time news organizations
Bill Koenig, Rachel Layne, John Lippert, James Gunsalus, Peter Robison and Gillian Wee of Bloomberg News: "Bill Ford makes way for Mulally"
Enterprise
Giant newspapers
Carrie Teegardin and Ann Hardie of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "Insurance injustice -- when credit matters
Louis Uchitelle of The New York Times: "Very rich are leaving the merely rich behind
Tom Belden and Craig R.McCoy of The Philadelphia Inquirer: "Baggage bungling
Large newspapers
Eric Gorksi of The Denver Post, "The Gospel of prosperity
Joe Rojas-Burke of The Oregonian, "Millions for rural health miss mark
Medium newspapers
Robert Edler of the Austin American-Statesman: "Pension fund scheme
Binyamin Appelbaum of The Charlotte Observer: "Suspicious timing
Jeremiah McWilliams of The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.): "Life after Ford
Small newspapers
Brady McCombs of the Arizona Daily Star (Tucson): "Squeezing border business
Debbie Kelley of The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.): "Money Enthusiast group has troubles with money
Scott Sloan of the Lexington Herald-Leader: "Inklings of change
Weekly newspapers
Matthew Kish of the Indianapolis Business Journal: "The ties that blind?
Matthew Quinn of Financial Week: "Inside Google's $10 billion stash
Real-time news organizations
Laura Bruce of Bankrate[,Inc.]: "Suspicious activity reports
Steven D. Jones of Dow Jones News Service: "In the money: Wrigley bulks up takeover defenses
Christine Richard of Bloomberg News: "MBIA debt backed by crack houses Perpetuates Blight"
Projects
Giant newspapers
Stephen Franklin and Darnell Little of the Chicago Tribune: "Throwaway workers
Edmund L. Andrews of The New York Times: "Leaky oil royalties
Charles Forelle, James Bandler and Mark Maremont of The Wall Street Journal: "Perfect payday
Large newspapers
David Olinger, Greg Griffin, Aldo Svaldi and Jeffrey Roberts of The Denver Post: "Foreclosing on the American dream
Steve Everly of The Kansas City Star: "It's hot fuel for you, cold cash for big oil
Sam Stanton and Marjie Lundstrom of The Sacramento Bee: "The price of access
Medium newspapers
Stella M. Hopkins, Mitch Weiss, Binyamin Appelbaum, Rick Rothacker, Franco Ordonez, Liz Chandler, Tim Funk and Peter St. Onge of The Charlotte Observer: "Hiding in plain sight
Kristi Heim, Alwyn Scott, and Alan Berner of The Seattle Times: "Customer and competitor
Shannon Behnken of The Tampa Tribune: "A rapid rise
Small newspapers
Michael J. Benbow of The Herald (Everett, Wash.): "Our fading fleet
Bryan Corliss of The Herald (Everett, Wash.): "Worldwide assembly line
Carol Ann Coultas of the Sun Journal (Lewiston, Maine): "Seeing green
Weekly newspapers
Thomas Mucha, Mark Scheffler, Erik Unger and Melissa Phee of Crain's Chicago Business: "Doing business in China: Enter the dragon
Steve Wilhelm of Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle): "Bold flight: Creating the Boeing 787
Susan Stabley of the South Florida Business Journal: "Water woes
Real-time news organizations
Martin Z. Braun, William Selway, Christine Richard and Darrell Preston of Bloomberg News: "Duping Main Street
Michael Smith and David Voreacos of Bloomberg News: "Slaves in Amazon forced to make materials used in GM, Toyota Cars
Lingling Wei of Dow Jones News Service, "Mortgage finance
Columns
Giant newspapers
Steve Bailey of The Boston Globe
Gretchen Morgenson of The New York
Times
Alan Murray of The Wall Street Journal
Large newspapers
Sheryl Harris of the Cleveland Plain Dealer
Al Lewis of The Denver
Post
Mitchell Schnurman of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Medium newspapers
Dave Elbert of the Des Moines Register
David Hendricks of the San
Antonio Express-News
Brier Dudley of The Seattle Times
Small newspapers
Susan Miller of the Ledger-Enquirer (Columbus, Ga.)
Dan Voelpel of
The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
Jon Chesto of The Patriot Ledger
(Quincy, Mass.)
Weekly newspapers
Alair Townsend of Crain's New York Business
Ron Gifford of the
Indianapolis Business Journal
Real-time news organizations
Michael Lewis of Bloomberg News
Michael Rapoport of Dow Jones
Newswires
David Callaway of MarketWatch
Student Contest
Isabel Ordonez, University of Missouri School of Journalism, for Reuters: "Iraq, Afghanistan lure poor Latin American guards
Certificate of merit: Amy Thomson, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, for Bloomberg: "Smith & Wesson, 'Dirty Harry' gun maker, targets Army
