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