The Financial Times has won five awards in The Society of American Business Editors and Writers’ (SABEW) 15th annual Best in Business Contest, recognizing the finest business news reporting in 2009.
Gillian Tett, US Managing Editor of the Financial Times, commented: “It’s a great honor to be recognized by our peers during such an historic year in business, finance and economics. It’s been the story of a lifetime and these wins are a further testament to the FT’s mission of providing readers with the highest quality news and analysis in print and online. We are extremely proud of this achievement.”
Financial Times picked up awards in the following categories:
“Overall Excellence” (Newspaper) – Financial Times
“Column” – Martin Wolf
“Blog” – FT Alphaville
Contributors: Paul Murphy and Stacy-Marie Ishmael in New York, Tracy Alloway, Izabella Kaminska, Joseph Cotterill and Neil Hume in London, and Gwen Robinson in Tokyo
“Blog” – FT techblog
Contributors: Richard Waters, Chris Nuttall, David Gelles and Joseph Menn in San Francisco, Maija Palmer and Tim Bradshaw in London, Paul Taylor in New York, Robin Kwong in Taipei and Robin Harding in Tokyo
“Audio/Visual Report” (Online) – “Video special: Lehman aftershock” on the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers
Contributors: Francesco Guerrera and John Authers in New York, and Josh Noble in London
The contest generated nearly 800 entries, the second largest pool in the history of the contest, from leading news organizations across the United States.
Further information about SABEW’s Best in Business Contest can be found online at: www.sabew.org
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For further information, please contact:
Darcy Keller, Financial Times, +1 212-641-6614 or darcy.keller@ft.com
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