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"
Francis X. Donnelly, Christine Tierney and Bryce G. Hoffman of the
Detroit News: "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, Mark Maremont, and Steve Stecklow
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, David Dietz, 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"
Contact Information: Contact: Jill Jorden Spitz contest co-chair (520) 573-4177 Cathie Anderson contest co-chair (916) 321-1957 Carrie Paden SABEW executive director (573) 882-8985