Business Journal Takes Five Awards, Including Honor as Best Weekly

The Los Angeles Business Journal has been named the nation’s best regional weekly by the Association of Area Business Publications.

The award, one of five the Business Journal received during the AABP’s annual conference last week in Chicago, was for overall excellence among large tabloids (those with annual revenues of more than $1.5 million) and covered calendar year 2003.

In recognizing the Business Journal, the judges concluded that the paper “includes a wealth of enterprise reporting, good story variety, and solid in-depth coverage. In fact, the paper is jam-packed with copy, but still easy to navigate.” The judges also noted that the Business Journal “covers the political side of business like no other competitor in this category.”

Other awards for the paper:

-First prize in the Best Local Spin of a National Business/Economic Story category for “L.A.’s Hidden Money,” which examined the area’s underground economy.

-First prize in the Best Feature category for “Rich Kids,” part of the Richest Angelenos special report that examined the children of the extremely wealthy.

-Second prize in the Explanatory Journalism category for “Fixing the System,” a series of articles by reporters Laurence Darmiento and Howard Fine that examined the reasons behind California’s fiscal problems.

-Third prize in the Best Body of Work, Single Reporter category to Amanda Bronstad for enterprise and investigative stories.

The competition had 562 entries from 52 publications in 28 categories. Judges were from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.