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Competitors and peers have honored the breadth of our coverage with more than 400 journalism awards. These include a George Polk Award, a Sigma Delta Chi Award, a Scripps Howard Award, an Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Award, a Sidney Hillman Award, an Overseas Press Club Award, a Gerald Loeb Award, a Foreign Press Association Award, a SABEW Award and a Maria Moors Cabot Prize among others.


GEORGE POLK AWARDS

2006 Winner: Health Reporting, 12-piece entry, "Big Pharma's Shameful Secret” by David Evans, Michael Smith and Liz Willen


SIGMA DELTA CHI AWARDS

2007 Winner: Investigative Reporting by Magazines, “The Secret World of Modern Slavery" by Michael Smith and David Voreacos, Bloomberg Markets, December 2006


SCRIPPS HOWARD FOUNDATION

2007 Winner: Business and Financial Reporting, 5-piece entry by Michael Smith and David Voreacos


INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS AND EDITORS AWARDS (IRE)

2007 Winner: Other Media/Magazine/Specialty Publication, "Broken Promises" by William Selway, Martin Z. Braun and David Dietz, Bloomberg Markets, December 2006


Second Place: Winner: Other Media/Magazine/Specialty Publication, "The Secret World of Modern Slavery" by Michael Smith and David Voreacos, Bloomberg Markets, November 2006


2006 Winner: Other Media/Magazine/Specialty Publication, "Big Pharma's Shameful Secret" by David Evans, Michael Smith and Liz Willen, Bloomberg Markets, December 2005


SIDNEY HILLMAN AWARDS

2006 First Place Winner: Magazine Category, "Big Pharma's Shameful Secret" by David Evans, Michael Smith and Liz Willen, Bloomberg Markets, December 2005


OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB AWARDS

2009 Winner: Malcolm Forbes Award/Best Business Reporting From Abroad in Newspapers or News Services: "Recipe for Famine", 7-piece entry by Alan Bjerga, Carlos Caminada, Alison Fitzgerald, Jason Gale, Luzi Ann Javier, Alan Katz, Ian Katz, Ari Levy, Pius Lukong, Helen Murph, Christopher Swann and Peter Robison


2002 Winner: Morton Frank Award for Best Business Story in a Magazine, “Inside Qaddafi's Financial Web" by Vernon Silver, Bloomberg Markets, November 2001


1995 Winner: Malcolm Forbes Award for Best Business Story, "Prime Bank Fraud and Kizu," 8-piece entry by Laura Zelenko, Rob Urban, Mayumi Otsuma, James Rolle and Mark Gilbert


1994 Finalist: Malcolm Forbes Award for Best Business Story, "Busting at the Seams" by Lee Miller and Brian Bremner


GERALD LOEB AWARD

2008 Winner: News Services "Wall Street's Faustian Bargain," 5-piece entry by Mark Pittman, Bob Ivry and Kathleen M. Howley


2007 Lifetime Achievement Award: Matthew Winkler


2006 Winner: Lawrence Minard Editor Award, Ronald Henkoff: Editor, Bloomberg Markets, Executive Editor Enterprise/Publishing, Bloomberg News


2004 Winner: News Service/Online Content, “Flimflam Man" by David Evans, Abhay Singh and Adrian Cox


2002 Winner: News/Wire Service Category, "Muddy Markets" by the staff of Bloomberg News


FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS

2008 Winner: Financial/Economic Story of the Year, "The Insurance Hoax" by David Dietz and Darrell Preston


2007 Winner: Print/Web Feature Story of the Year, "The Secret World of Modern Slavery" by Michael Smith and David Voreacos, Bloomberg Markets, December 2006


2006 Winner: Financial/Economic Story of the Year/Print, "The Banks That Fleeced Alabama" by Martin Z. Braun, Darrell Preston and Liz Willen, Bloomberg Markets, September 2005


2004 Winner: Financial Story of the Year, "The Family That Runs Iran" by Kambiz Foroohar, Bloomberg Markets, June 2004


SABEW
2009
Winner: Enterprise
  • •   "China Lets Child Workers Die Digging in Congo Mines for Copper" by Simon Clark, Michael Smith and Franz Wild
  • •   "China Defies Peru Rescue of Miners Afflicted with Lung Disease" by Michael Smith
  • •   "Ten Days that Changed Wall Street as Bernake Saw 'Massive Failure'" by John Helyar, Alison Fitzgerald, Mark Pittman and Serena Saitto

Winner: Projects "Broken Promises" by Martin Braun and William Selway
  • •   "Hidden Swap Fees by JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley Hit School Boards"
  • •   "JPMorgan Swap Deals Spur Probe as Default Stalks Alabama County"
  • •   "FBI Probe of JPMorgan Fees Focuses on Swaps Roiling Muni Debt"

Winner: Columns by Jonathan Weil
  • •   "AIG's Explanation of Losses Doesn't Ring True"
  • •   "Freddie, Fannie `Fair Values' Hardly Look Fair"
  • •   "Time Warner's Books Full of Bias, Full of Bull"

Winner: Enterprise/Magazine/Small, "Schools Flunk Finance", by Martin Braun and William Selway, Bloomberg Markets, March 2008


Online Contest: General Excellence: Business Web Site (Medium)


Winner: Projects "Recipe for Famine" by Alan Bjerrga, Carlos Caminada, Alison Fitzgerald, Jason Gale, Luzi Ann Javier, Alan Katz, Ian Katz, Pius Lukong, Helen Murphy, Christopher Swann and Peter Robison


2008

Winner: Breaking News, "Bernanke's World Unravels," 7-piece entry by Scott Lanman, Brendan Murray, Matthew Brockett, Caroline Salas, Anthony Massucci, Lynn Thomasson and Shannon Harrington


Winner: Enterprise Reporting, "The Fall of Detroit: Insider Sees Errors of 1970s in GM Strike" by John Lippert


Winner: General Excellence, Business Magazine (Small), Bloomberg Markets May, September and November 2008


Winner: Projects, "The Insurance Hoax," 8-piece entry by David Dietz, Gary Cohn and Darrell Preston


Winner: Business Magazine Cover Stories, "Toxic Debt," 3-piece entry, Bloomberg Markets, July 2007


Winner: General Excellence, Business Magazines, Bloomberg Markets July, August and September 2007


MARIA MOORS CABOT PRIZE

2008 Gold Medal: Michael Smith, Bloomberg Markets


EMMY AWARDS

2008 Outstanding Business Reporting, "401(k) Hidden Fees" Executive Producer: Karin Annus; Producer: Gary Matsumoto; "Deadly Brew: The Human Toll of Ethanol" Executive Producer: Karin Annus; Producer: Gary Matsumoto