NYSSCPA Announces Financial Journalism Award Winners

The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants has announced this year’s winners for its Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards.

Created to recognize reporters from the national and local press who contribute to a better understanding of business topics, the Society’s Financial Journalism Awards are judged on accuracy and thorough research, the ability to communicate an understanding of the topic and the fair and balanced representation of the issue.

Chosen from among 68 entrants who produced work between Jan. 1, 2001, and Dec. 31, 2001, this year’s winners, to be presented at the Society’s Annual Election Meeting and Dinner at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan on May 9, include:

• Business Week, David Henry and Nanette Byrnes for their articles “The Numbers Game,” “Why EarningsAre Too Rosy” and “Confused About Earnings?”
  
• Newsweek, Jane Bryant Quinn for her series of personal finance and money management columns
  
• The Wall Street Journal, Tom Herman for his tax column
  
• Accounting Today, William Carlino for his article “Top 100 Most Influential People”
  
• Bloomberg News, Russell Hubbard, Jim Kennett and Mark Johnson for their wire service report “El Paso Corp. Secured Off-Balance Sheet Financing”
  
• SmartMoney.com, Donald Luskin for his entry “Rising from the Ashes”
  
• NBR Enterprises/WPBT Miami—Nightly Business Report, Jack Kahn, Erika Miller, Diane Eastabrook and Jeff Yastine for their broadcast, “The NBR Guide to Buying Bonds”
  
• WBBR Radio (Bloomberg), Peter Schacknow for his report “Tax Smart Now”