The Corridor Business Journal was honored with four awards by the Alliance of Area Business Publishers (AABP), a trade association for local business-to-business publishers, during a virtual ceremony Wednesday night, June 23.
The honors included three gold awards and one silver award.
Gold awards went to:
- Best Scoop, for “Lightening the (real estate) load,” a story by senior reporter Katharine Carlon on the growing trend of industrial leaseback transactions, including the breaking news that appliance giant Whirlpool had sold its Amana plant for $93 million.
- Best Feature, for “Affording Health – Big bills & bitter pills,” by Ms. Carlon, Dave DeWitte, Julia Druckmiller and Adam Moore, a series on the crisis of health care affordability for both employers and employees, the state of the Affordable Care Act, the privatization of the state’s Medicaid program and cost containment strategies. “The reporting is tireless and comprehensive, from bleak projections from health care CEOs, overworked physicians, to patient after patient desperate for affordable healthcare,” contest judges wrote.
- Best Local Coverage of a National Business/Economic Story, for “Pandemic impacts,” by Ms. Carlon, Mr. DeWitte, Mr. Moore and Becky Lyons, a series that took readers behind the scenes as bankers, airport executives and manufacturers scrambled to help their customers through the COVID-19 crisis.
A silver award for Best Bylined Commentary went to Joe Coffey for his regular CBJ column, “The Fifth Estate.” “Being an experienced and savvy observer of media is great, but it’s a real service when the columnist offers behind-the-scenes insight,” judges wrote. “That includes giving readers realistic ways to support local journalism, or introducing readers to a just-hired local TV reporter. These stories behind the story are often overlooked or unexplored, and result in surprising insights.”
The CBJ also won multiple awards from the AABP in both 2019 and 2020.
