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Breakingviews shines in business journalism “Oscars”
23 Apr 2009
Two breakingviews editors, Richard Beales and Edward Hadas, were winners of the annual Business Journalist of the Year Awards. Four other Breakingviews journalists were runners up.
Richard Beales won the Best Deadline or Breaking News Story for his coverage of the crisis engulfing Bear Stearns and the bank's rescue takeover by JPMorgan. The story
Grin and Bear it was part of this award-winning insight.
Edward Hadas received the award for the Best Economics Story for his piece,
Aim for the sky, in which he astutely predicted the collapse of the oil price from the heady heights of summer 2008.
Breakingviews journalists received 5 other nominations, in four categories:
- Best Corporate Journalist: Rob Cox for coverage of Citi, in his story Too big to succeed.
- Best Deadline or Breaking News Story: George Hay for coverage of Royal Bank of Scotland's rights issue, in The rights math.
- Best Economics Story: Martin Hutchinson for predicting the Dow would fall to 7800 in 13 Year Bubble.
- Best Online or Wire Service Story: John Foley for coverage of private equity in Feel the squeeze, George Hay for the story Constant pain, debt obligatory.
The Business Journalist of the Year Awards are the only awards for business writers open to journalists of all nationalities, and the only awards to cover the entire spectrum of business and financial reporting.
“We believe that breakingviews has been leading the way in its coverage of the financial crisis. These awards are a tremendous recognition of the high quality of our agenda-setting insight,” said Hugo Dixon, breakingviews editor-in-chief.
For further information, please contact:
Hugo Dixon
Editor-in-chief and Chairman
breakingviews.com
hugo.dixon@breakingviews.com
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