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Awards

Daily Business Review takes four first-place awards

June 8, 2004
By Review staff

The Daily Business Review won 13 awards, including four first-place prizes, in the statewide Sunshine State Awards competition. The annual contest is sponsored by the South Florida chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

At the group’s 10th annual awards dinner Saturday at the Renaissance Hotel in Plantation, Review reporters Matthew Haggman, Dan Christensen, and Steve Ellman each won first-place awards.

Haggman won two first-place prizes, in nondeadline business reporting and local political/government reporting. Christensen took the top prize in investigative reporting. Ellman won first place in civil law reporting.

The Palm Beach Post received the James K. Batten Award for Public Service for its series, “Modern-day slavery,” about the ordeal of undocumented Latin American immigrants getting to and working in South Florida.

Haggman’s first-place articles were about personal injury protection auto insurance and Miami-Dade County’s electronic voting machine problems. Christensen’s winning series was about case secrecy practices in the federal courts. Ellman’s first-place series was about efforts by doctors to sanction colleagues who testify for plaintiffs in medical malpractice cases.

Haggman also took two second-place awards, while Ellman received one second-place prize and two third-place prizes.
Other Review reporters who were honored were Julie Kay, Terry Sheridan, Peter Zalewski, Oscar Musibay, John Hernandez and Laurie Cunningham. Former Review reporter Tony Doris also received a prize for his work at the Review.

Kay placed second in investigative reporting and third in local political/government reporting. Sheridan placed second in nondeadline business reporting.

Zalewski, Musibay, and Hernandez, along with Haggman, placed second in deadline business reporting for their team coverage of the Free Trade Area of the Americas conference.

Cunningham placed second, along with Haggman, in civil law reporting for coverage of tobacco litigation. Doris took third in consumer reporting.

In the reporting and writing categories, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel received 14 awards, including six first-place prizes. The Miami Herald received 11 awards including seven firsts. The Palm Beach Post won eight awards, including four top prizes.

Daily Business Review law editor Harris Meyer received the President’s Award for his work, along with SPJ chapter president Julie Kay and other chapter leaders, in revamping this year’s Sunshine State Awards contest.