SABEW Announces Winners in its 13th Annual Best in Business Journalism Contest

Business Wire, March 27, 2008

--Pete Carey, San Jose Mercury News: "Harsh side of the boom"

--Kristi Heim, The Seattle Times: "China's eco-city"

Mid-sized Publications

--Rick Rothacker and David Ingram, The Charlotte Observer: "Is this a conflict?"

--Sharon Terlep and Bill Vlasic, The Detroit News: "Inside story"

--Rebecca Mowbray, New Orleans Times-Picayune: "Same house. Same repairs. Same insurer. Why different prices?"

Small Publications

--Becky Pallack, Arizona Daily Star: "First Magnus: Boom to bust in three weeks"

--Dan Kelley, Corpus Christi Caller-Times: "Is the city growing or stretching?"

--George Talbot, Press-Register (Mobile, Ala.): "Several factors are key to deal"

Weekly Publications

--Ron Leuty, San Francisco Business Times: "The fight of his life: Bay Area tech execs and VCs rally to aid one of their own battling a rare disease"

--Daniel Kaplan and Mark Mensheha, Street & Smith's SportBusiness Journal: "American invasion: What's driving the gold rush to English soccer?"

Real-time News Organizations

--John Schoen, MSNBC: "Mortgage mess"

--John Lippert, Bloomberg News: "Fall of Detroit"

--Melissa Davis, TheStreet.Com: "Shattered hopes"

Columns

Giant Publications

--David Leonhardt, The New York Times

--Joseph Nocera, The New York Times

--Michelle Singletary, The Washington Post

Large Publications

--Eileen Ambrose, The Baltimore Sun

--Mary Jo Feldstein, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

--Al Lewis, The Denver Post

Mid-sized Publications

--Mitchell Schnurman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram

--George Gombossy, The Hartford Courant

--Liz Bentson, Las Vegas Sun

Small Publications

--Gregory Karp, The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.)

--Dan Voelpel, The News-Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)

--Susan Miller, Ledger-Enquirer (Columbus, Ga.)

Weekly Publications

--Brian Kaberline, Kansas City Business Journal

--Greg David, Crain's New York Business

--Steve Symanovich, San Francisco Business Times

Real-time News Organizations

--Jon Markman, MSN Money

--James Saft, Reuters

--Brett Arends, TheStreet.com

Projects

Giant Publications

--Patricia Callahan, Maurice Possley, Michael Oneal, Evan Osnos, Ted Gregory and Sam Roe, Chicago Tribune: "Hidden hazards"

--Charles Duhigg, The New York Times: "Golden opportunities"

--Walt Bogdanich, The New York Times: "Toxic pipeline"

Large Publications

--Suzanne Rust, Meg Kissinger and Cary Spivak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: "Chemical fallout"

--Mike Casey and Rick Montgomery, Kansas City Star: "Fatal failures"

--Gargi Chakrabarty, Rocky Mountain News: "Ethanol boom: Kernel to car"

Mid-sized Publications

--Binyamin Appelbaum, Lisa Hammersly, Ted Mellnik, Peter St. Onge, Stella M. Hopkins, Liz Chandler, Mike Drummond, Pam Kelley, Gary Schwab and Patrick Scott, The Charlotte Observer: "Sold a nightmare"

--Lee Rood, Lynn Hicks, Philip Brasher, Paula Lavigne, Jerry Perkins, Perry Beeman, Jon Benedict, Jeff Bruner, Suzanne Behnke and Don Tormey, Des Moines Register: "Fueling Iowa's future"

--Christine Tierney and Bill Vlasic: The Detroit News: "Death of a Merger"

Small Publications

--Winston Ross, The Register-Guard (Eugene, Ore.): "Big fish in a big pond"