2024 Best in Business Awards
NEWS | 13 May 2025
Congratulations to our 2024 honorees! The Best in Business Awards attracted 1,103 entries from 181 news organizations, ranging from international, national and regional news outlets to specialized business publications. Press release Judges’ comments List of judges Banking/Finance Large division Winner – The Wall Street Journal; Overworked: How Wall Street Pushes Young Bankers to the Edge Alexander Saeedy Honorable Mention – Reuters; Wall Street banks’ capital fight Pete Schroeder, Michelle Price Medium division Winner – The Minnesota Star Tribune; Star Tribune Banking Mike Hughlett Small division Winner – The Information; Risky Online Payments Michael Roddan, Qianer Liu Honorable Mention – Chicago Booth Review; A Golden Age for Green Investment? Neil Weinberg, Vanessa Sumo Best Range of Work Large division Winner – The Wall Street Journal; Ben Cohen and the Stories of Success Ben Cohen Honorable Mention – The New York Times; Natasha Singer Natasha Singer Medium division Winner – The Minnesota Star Tribune; Mike Hughlett – Best Range of Work Mike Hughlett Small Division Winner – STAT; Matthew Herper’s coverage of health and medicine Matthew Herper Honorable Mention – ImpactAlpha; David Bank David Bank Honorable Mention – St. Louis Business Journal; James Drew James Drew Breaking News Large division Winner – Bloomberg News; The CEO Killing That Shocked the World Myles Miller, John Tozzi, Antonia Mufarech, David Voreacos, Cynthia Koons Honorable Mention – The Wall Street Journal; Inside the Alaska Airlines Blowout: ‘Is It OK if I Hold Your Hand?’ Alison Sider, Patience Haggin, Allison Pohle, Sharon Terlep Medium and small division Winner – Baltimore Business Journal; Key Bridge collapse Garrett Dvorkin, Paul J. Gough, Matt Hooke, Melody Simmons, Joanna Sullivan Honorable Mention – The Minnesota Star Tribune; United Healthcare CEO murder Christopher Snowbeck, Jeremy Olson, Victor Stefanescu, Paul Walsh, Jessie Van Berkel Commentary/Opinion Large division Winner – The Washington Post; Scammed Michelle Singletary Honorable Mention – The Wall Street Journal; Elon Musk’s Embrace of Politics Tim Higgins Medium division Winner – Detroit News; Daniel Howes columns on MSU management, federal auto policy and GM’s reinvention Daniel Howes Honorable Mention – The Boston Globe; Chesto Means Business Jon Chesto Small division Winner – Crain’s Chicago Business; Crain’s Chicago Business editorials Ann Dwyer Honorable Mention – STAT; Truth-teller on the biotech industry Adam Feuerstein Data Journalism Large division Winner – The Wall Street Journal; Medicare Inc.: How Giant Insurers Make Billions Off Seniors Christopher Weaver, Tom McGinty, Anna Wilde Mathews, Mark Maremont, Andrew Mollica Honorable Mention – The New York Times; Housing Insurance Insecurity Christopher Flavelle, Mira Rojanasakul Medium division Winner – A collaboration of OCCRP, E24 and 70+ media outlets; Dubai Unlocked Antonio Baquero Iglesia, Martin Young, Kevin G. Hall, Eiliv Frich Flydal, Jessica Purkiss Honorable Mention – A collaboration of The Examination and Houston Chronicle; Oil companies leak toxic gas across Texas — making local residents sick Will Evans, Caroline Ghisolfi, Amanda Drane, Amelia Winger Small division Winner – St. Louis Business Journal; Maddy Simpson’s Data Package Maddy Simpson Honorable Mention – Sherwood Media; Hard to explain but easy to see: Data visualizations on groceries, stocks, and Teslas J. Edward Moreno, Rani Molla, David Crowther, Matt Phillips Economics Large division Winner – The New York Times; The Migrant Pipeline Steve Eder, Danielle Ivory, Marcela Valdes, Churchill Ndonwie Honorable Mention – A collaboration of the Associated Press, AL.com, Dallas Morning News, Idaho Education News, Seattle Times and Education Reporting Collaborative; America’s child care crisis is holding back moms without college degrees Moriah Balingit, Sharon Lurye, Daniel Beekman, Carly Flandro, Valeria Olivares and Alaina Bookman Medium division Winner – Nikkei Asia; Chinese exports rattle the world Cissy Zhou, Stella Yifan Xie, Francesca Regalado, Erwida Maulia, Norman Goh Honorable Mention – The Guardian; The Confidence Question Lauren Aratani Small division Winner – Inside Climate News; Politically Charged Marianne Lavelle, Dan Gearino Energy/Sustainability/Climate Change Large division Winner – The New York Times; Buying Time David Gelles, Eric Lipton, Brad Plumer, Raymond Zhong Honorable Mention – Bloomberg Green; The Climate Cost of AI Bloomberg Staff Medium division Winner – San Antonio Express-News; In Broad Daylight Sara DiNatale Honorable Mention – The Arizona Republic; Power Play: Why Utility Executives Push Gas-Fired Power In Rural Arizona, Where Solar Would Thrive Joan Meiners Small division Winner – Inside Climate News; Cashing Out Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz Explanatory Large division Winner – Bloomberg Opinion; The Global Climate Crisis David Fickling Honorable Mention – Business Insider; Inside workers’ fracturing relationship with employers Aki Ito, Eric Bates Honorable Mention – The Washington Post; Power Grab: How AI firms are pushing the U.S. into an energy crisis Evan Halper, Caroline O’Donovan, Pranshu Verma Medium division Winner – Fortune Magazine; How Boeing Broke Down Shawn Tully Honorable Mention – KFF Health News; A Pandemic Threat: How the US Lost Control of Bird Flu Amy Maxmen, Nathan Payne Honorable Mention – A collaboration of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Milwaukee PBS; Reshoring: How Wisconsin factory work is returning from China Rick Barrett, Mark Hoffman Small division Winner – Bridge Michigan; Michigan’s Expensive Incentives Produce Few (and Low Paying) Jobs Paula Gardner Honorable Mention – STAT; How invisible medical groups are powering telehealth’s GLP-1 ‘gold rush’ Katie Palmer Honorable Mention – The Information; Trade ‘Loophole’ Spurs New Retail Economy Theo Wayt, Ann Gehan Feature Large division Winner – Bloomberg Businessweek; The Egg Bloomberg Staff Honorable Mention – Business Insider; In Cold Blood Brendan Borrell, Edith Honan Honorable Mention – The New Yorker; Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster Charles Duhigg Medium division Winner – Wired; Priscila, Queen of the Rideshare Mafia Lauren Smiley Honorable Mention – The News & Observer; Forging Fortnite: How a North Carolina studio made the world’s biggest game Brian Gordon Honorable Mention – Fortune Magazine; Hot Mess Indrani Sen Small division Winner – A collaboration of Inside Climate News and The Assembly; Gaslighting Lisa Sorg Honorable Mention – Civil Eats; The Hard Work of Bringing Kelp to Market Alexandra Talty Honorable Mention – STAT; This father built a gene therapy for his son. Now comes the harder part: saving others’ children, too Jason Mast General Excellence Industry/topic-specific publications Winner – The Examination; The Examination: Investigating health threats and empowering communities Staff Large division Winner – Bloomberg News Honorable Mention – Reuters Medium division Winner – Barron’s Catherine Dunn, Reshma Kapadia, Molly Cook Escobar, Matt Peterson, Elizabeth O’Brien Honorable Mention – The Seattle Times Small division Winner – STAT: Tough-minded and authoritative journalism Honorable Mention – Crain’s New York Business Government Large division Winner – The Wall Street Journal; The Sprawling Chinese Hack That Took America by Surprise Sarah Krouse, Dustin Volz, Aruna Viswanatha, Robert McMillan, Drew FitzGerald Honorable Mention – Business Insider; Locked Out Cecilia Reyes, Esther Kaplan Medium division Winner – KFF Health News; A Pandemic Threat: How the US Lost Control of Bird Flu Amy Maxmen, Nathan Payne Honorable Mention – The Boston Globe; High and Dry: Inside Boston’s broken liquor license system Shirley Leung and Diti Kohli Small division Winner – International Consortium of Investigative Journalists; Inside the IRS Spencer Woodman, Denise Ajiri, Jelena Cosic, Delphine Reuter, Carmen Molina Acosta Honorable Mention – Capital & Main; California Inmates Say They Urgently Need Workplace Heat Standards — but the State Has Delayed Adopting Them Hilary Beaumont Health/Science Large division Winner – Bloomberg Businessweek; The Egg Bloomberg Staff Honorable Mention – The New York Times; Abuses at Acadia Healthcare Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Katie Thomas Honorable Mention – A collaboration of NBC News and Noticias Telemundo; Dealing the Dead Staff Medium division Winner – A collaboration of The Examination and Houston Chronicle; Oil companies leak toxic gas across Texas — making local residents sick Will Evans, Caroline Ghisolfi, Amanda Drane, Amelia Winger Honorable Mention – A collaboration of OCCRP and The Boston Globe; How Private Equity and an Ambitious Landlord Put Steward Health Care on Life Support Khadija Sharife, Jacob Borg, Brian Fitzpatrick, Tom Stocks, Kira Zalan Honorable Mention – The Boston Globe; The bittersweet reality of a new Alzheimer’s drug Jonathan Saltzman Small division Winner – Inside Climate News; Captured: How pesticide regulators place industry profits above public health Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous Honorable Mention – STAT; The War on Recovery Lev Facher International Reporting Large division Winner – Bloomberg Businessweek; Inside Peru’s Secret Luxury Supply Chain Marcelo Rochabrun, Daniel Ferrara, Julianne Wilkinson, Bianca Rosario Ramirez Honorable Mention – Bloomberg News; Africa’s Failed Biometrics Tomas Statius, Oliva Solon, Beatriz Ramalho da Silva Honorable Mention – The New York Times; Tech/Chips/Trade Ana Swanson, Aaron Krolik, Paul Mozur, Claire Fu Medium and Small division Winner – OCCRP; Iraq’s Dollar Auction: The ‘Monster’ Funneling Billions to Fraudsters and Militants Through the Fed Aisha Kehoe Down, Lara Dihmis, Rana Sabbagh, Kevin G. Hall Honorable Mention – The Information; TSMC at Center of U.S. – China Tension Qianer Liu Investigative Large division Winner – The Wall Street Journal; Musk Above the Law WSJ Staff Honorable Mention – A collaboration of NBC News and Noticias Telemundo; Dealing the Dead NBC News and Noticias Telemundo Staff Honorable Mention – The New York Times; The Migrant Pipeline Steve Eder, Danielle Ivory, Marcela Valdes, Churchill Ndonwie Medium division Winner – A collaboration of The Boston Globe and OCCRP; Globe Spotlight coverage of Steward Health Care Globe staff, with contributions by the OCCRP Honorable Mention – A collaboration of Chicago Tribune and Better Government Association; Cook County Assessor Misclassifies Hundreds of Properties, Missing $444M in One Year Alone Alex Nitkin, A.D. Quig, Cam Rodriguez Honorable Mention – KFF Health News; The Only Hospital in Town Brett Kelman, Samantha Liss Small division Winner – STAT; Health Care’s Colossus Bob Herman, Tara Bannow, Casey Ross, Lizzy Lawrence Honorable Mention – Civil Eats; Chemical Capture Lisa Held Investing/Markets Large division Winner – Bloomberg News; Easy Money Bloomberg Staff Honorable Mention – The Washington Post; The dramatic rise and fall of Trump’s Truth Social Drew Harwell Medium division Winner – Barron’s; Investigating Annuities Jacob Adelman Small division Winner – The Information; Who Needs an IPO? Cory Weinberg, Sri Muppidi Media/Entertainment Large division Winner – Reuters; OnlyFans Exposed Linda So, Andrew R.C. Marshall, Jason Szep and the Reuters team Honorable Mention – The New York Times; The Murdoch Family Battle Jim Rutenberg, Jonathan Mahler Medium and Small division Winner – Barron’s; The Gateway to Gambling for Kids Nick Devor Newsletter Large division Winner – The New York Times; DealBook The DealBook staff Honorable Mention – The Wall Street Journal; Lingling Wei’s newsletter takes WSJ readers inside China Lingling Wei Medium division Winner – Axios; 2024: The Media Campaign Sara Fischer Small division Winner – Endpoints News; Endpoints Health Tech Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer, Shelby Livingston, Ngai Yeung Honorable Mention – Inside Climate News; Inside Clean Energy Dan Gearino Personal Finance Large division Winner – The Wall Street Journal; The Growing Toll of Caregiving Clare Ansberry, Anne Tergesen Medium division Winner – A collaboration of KFF Health News, 9NEWS, Colorado News Collaborative, Colorado Newsline and The Colorado Sun; Diagnosis: Debt Colorado Rae Ellen Bichell, Chris Vanderveen, John Ingold, Lindsey Toomer, Sara Wilson Honorable Mention – Barron’s; Financial Risks for Retirees Elizabeth O’Brien Small division Winner – Capital and Main; Surviving on $1,800 a Month in Social Security, She Died Looking for a Place to Live Jessica Goodheart, Barbara Davidson Podcast/Audio Large division Winner – The Washington Post; The FBI called. Then she got scammed. Charla Freeland, Michelle Singletary Honorable Mention – Bloomberg News; Foundering: The OpenAI story Ellen Huet, Shawn Wen Medium division Winner – A collaboration of KFF Health News and Public Road Productions; An Arm and a Leg Dan Weissmann, Emily Pisacreta, Claire Davenport, Ellen Weiss, Adam Raymonda Small division Winner – KUOW; Why are Seattle sports games so expensive? We looked into that and ways to save. Joshua McNichols, Lucy Soucek, Jennie Cecil Moore, Monica Nickelsburg, Carol Smith Real Estate Large division Winner – Bloomberg Green; Uncovered in the U.S. Bloomberg Staff Honorable Mention – The New York Times; Housing America Conor Dougherty Medium division Winner – The Miami Herald; Rigged Ben Wieder, Brittany Wallman Honorable Mention – Marketplace; The Golden Triangle: How the CHIPS Act is changing one Arizona neighborhood Kai Ryssdal, Maria Hollenhorst, Nancy Farghalli, Juan Carlos Torrado, Charlton Thorp Small division Winner – The Real Deal; The End of the A-Team Sheridan Wall, Katherine Kallergis, Ellen Cranley Honorable Mention – The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal; Downtown Minneapolis property tax fights Caitlin Anderson, Ethan Nelson, Dirk DeYoung, Nancy Kuehn Honorable Mention – A collaboration of Project on Government Oversight and Mother Jones; From Toxic Mold to Rampant Fraud: How Privatizing Military Housing Became a Nightmare for Soldiers René Kladzyk Retail Large division Winner – The Washington Post; McDonald’s Child Labor Problems Lauren Gurley, Emmanuel Martinez, Julia Mata Honorable Mention – The Wall Street Journal; The Harsh Math of America’s Crushing Food Bills Jesse Newman, Heather Haddon, Ruth Simon, Stephanie Stamm Medium division Winner – The Boston Globe; Pharmacy deserts Diti Kohli, Tiana Woodard, Daigo Fujiwara-Smith, Thomas Lee Honorable Mention – Barron’s; Shop ‘Til You Drop: Luxury, Convenience and Online Addiction Teresa Rivas Small division Winner – THE CITY; New York’s Cannabis Legalization ‘Disaster’ Rosalind Adams Honorable Mention – The Information; What’s Really in Your Shopping Cart? Shein and Temu’s Hidden Costs Jing Yang, Ann Gehan, Theo Wayt Small Business Large division Winner – The Wall Street Journal; The Death Industry Dominique Mosbergen Medium and Small division Winner – Fortune Magazine; Hot Mess Indrani Sen Honorable Mention – The Information; Crunch Time for Consumer Funders Ann Gehan Student Journalism Winner – Cronkite News at ASU; Lithium Liabilities Reporters at the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism ASU Technology Large division Winner – Financial Times; Is Telegram’s Pavel Durov running a new ’dark web’? Hannah Murphy, Adrienne Klasa, Polina Ivanova, Christopher Miller Honorable Mention – The New York Times; Car Tracking Kashmir Hill Medium division Winner – Marketplace; What $42 billion means for nationwide broadband expansion Kai Ryssdal, Nancy Farghalli, Andie Corban, Sarah Leeson, Brian Allison Honorable Mention – Fortune Magazine; The Vigilance of Satya Nadella Jeremy Kahn Small division Winner – The Information; TikTok’s High-Wire Act in Washington Juro Osawa, Jing Yang, Sri Muppidi, Erin Woo Honorable Mention – Capital and Main; In Rural Pennsylvania, Crypto Mining Offers a Lifeline for Dying Gas Wells Audrey Carleton The Business of Sports Large division Winner – ESPN; Bad Bets: The Shohei Ohtani & Ippei Mizuhara Investigation Tisha Thompson, Elaine Teng, Mike Drago, Chris Buckle Medium division Winner – AL.com; Alabama’s top NIL collectives Hannah Denham Honorable Mention – St. Louis Post-Dispatch; How the Centene Ice Center went from ‘great’ win to cash crunch and taxpayer bailouts Steph Kukuljan Small division Winner – St. Louis Business Journal; Nathan Rubbelke’s Sports Package Nathan Rubbelke Honorable Mention – Sportico; March Madness Daily Eben Novy-Williams, Daniel Libit, Lev Akabas, Michael McCann, Jacob Feldman Travel/Transportation Large division Winner – The Wall Street Journal; Inside Boeing’s Factory Mess Sharon Terlep, Andrew Tangel, Jon Sindreu Honorable Mention – Bloomberg Businessweek; The EV Winter David Welch, Keith Naughton, Keith Laing, Erik Schatzker, Gabrielle Coppola Medium division Winner – The Seattle Times; Blowout/fallout Dominic Gates, Lauren Rosenblatt, Paige Cornwell, Patrick Malone Small division Winner – The Information; Turmoil at Tesla Steve LeVine, Becky Peterson Video Large division Winner – The Wall Street Journal; The Hidden Autopilot Data That Reveals Why Teslas Crash WSJ Staff Honorable Mention – CNBC; Ozempic Underworld: The Black Market of Obesity Drugs Melissa Lee, Scott Zamost, Eunice Yoon, David Lettieri, Charlie Roth Medium and Small division Winner – Bloomberg Industry Group; Rare Toads or Clean Energy? An Environmental Law Fight in Nevada Andrew Satter, Josh Block, Daniel Moore
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