Best in Business winners for overall excellence, by category and listed in alphabetical order are (Judges could name up to five winners in each category):

GIANT: (Newspapers with average daily circulation 350,001 and above)
Boston Globe
Los Angeles Times
Dallas Morning News
Judges:
Bob Frick – Associate Editor, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
Stephen D. Solomon- Associate professor and director of business and economic reporting at New York University
Matt Winkler – Editor-In-Chief, Bloomberg News

LARGE: (Newspapers with circulation 225,001-350,000)
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Charlotte Observer
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
San Jose Mercury News
Certificate of Merit Winners:
Miami Herald
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Judges:
R. Dean Mills – Dean, Univ. of Missouri School of Journalism
John Winn Miller – Editor, Tallahassee Democrat
Mark Howard – editor, Florida Trend magazine

MEDIUM: (Newspapers with circulation 100,001-225,000)
The Virginian Pilot (Norfolk, Va.)
St. Paul Pioneer-Press
Des Moines Register
Certificate of Merit Winners:
Contra Costa Times
Judges:
Nolan Finley – Deputy Managing Editor, The Detroit News
David Haynes – Senior Editor: Business News, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Todd Nissen – Correspondent, Reuters America Inc.

SMALL: (Newspapers with circulation under 100,000)
The Columbian, (Vancouver, Wash.)
Florida Today (Melbourne, Fla.)
Certificate of Merit Winner:
Santa Rosa Press-Democrat
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Judges:
Kate Lee Butler – Senior Business Team Leader, The Orange County Register
Scott Fagerstrom – Business Editor, Union-Tribune
Mark Hester – Business Editor, The Oregonian

BUSINESS WEEKLIES:
Atlanta Business Chronicle
Washington Business Journal
Los Angeles Business Journal
The Denver Business Journal
Certificate of Merit Winners:
Interactive Week
Crain’s Detroit Business
South Florida Business Journal
Judges:
Patrick Chu – Editor, Bloomberg News
Paul Davidson – Technology writer, USA Today Money Section
Pam Feibish – Business Editor, Richmond Times-Dispatch

Best in Business Spot News winners, by category and in alphabetical order are: (Judges could name up to three winners in each category)

GIANT: (Newspapers with circulation over 350,001)
The Boston Globe, “Fleet to acquire BankBoston”
The Star Tribune (Minneapolis), “Honeywell sold to N.J. firm”
Honorable Mentions:
Detroit Free Press, “Detroit Wins High-Tech Prize”

LARGE: (Newspapers with circulation 225,001-350,000)
The Kansas City Star, “Merger About Growth”
The Sacramento Bee, “Packard Bell NEC bailing out”
San Jose Mercury News, “HP breaks up”
Honorable Mention:
San Antonio Express-News, “Clear Dominance”
Tampa Tribune, “Florida Progress sale near”

MEDIUM: (Newspapers with circulation 100,001-225,000)
Des Moines Register, “AccessAir shuts down, files for bankruptcy”
The News Journal (Wilmington, Del.), “AstraZeneca picks Delaware”
Honorable Mention:
Virginian-Pilot, “A deal? Yes. An end? Maybe.”

SMALL: (Newspapers with circulation up to 100,000)
Durham Herald-Sun (“Liggett signals end of era”)
Durham Herald-Sun (“RDU lands low-cost, no-frills Southwest”)
Santa Rosa Press Democrat (“OCLI’s stock soars on buyout”)
Honorable Mention:
The Patriot Ledger (“Shutdown is a jolt to workers”)

WEEKLIES:
Atlanta Business Chronicle (“Change Afoot at A&P”)
Crain’s Detroit Business (“Little Caesar Shuts Stores”)
Kansas City Business Journal (“Sale of the Century”)
Honorable mention:
Dallas Business Journal (“Mattel Plotting Huge Facility”)

REAL-TIME:
Bloomberg News, “Microsoft President Ballmer Says Tech Stocks Overpriced,”
Bridge News, “Bank of America earnings boost result of one-time gain,”
Spot News Judges:
Cherrill Crosby – Assistant Managing Editor, Wilmington News-Journal
Jamie Heller – Editor of Strategic Ventures, The Street.com
Diana B. Henriques – Reporter, The New York Times
Peter Mancusi – Business Editor, The Boston Globe
Josh Mills – Professor and director, Graduate Program in Business Journalism, Baruch College of CUNY

Below are the winners (listed in bold) for each category.

Beat Reporting
Financial Post
Claudia Cattaneo
Coverage of Canada’s Energy Industry

Commentary
Canadian Business
Deborah Aarts
The Realist Column

Feature (Long-form)
Canadian Business
Joe Castaldo
The Last Days of Target

Feature (Short-form)
Financial Post
Claire Brownell
The End of Meat

Investigative
The Globe and Mail
Kathy Tomlinson
B.C Housing Investigation

Multimedia
Financial Post
Peter Kuitenbrouwer and Peter J. Thompson
The Sault Ste. Marie Locks

Package or Ongoing Series
Bloomberg News
Natalie Obiko Pearson, Katia Dmitrieva and Gerrit de Vynck
Real Estate

Personal Finance/Investing
MoneySense
Julie Cazzin, Mark Brown, Dan Bortolotti, Bryan Borzykowski, David Fielding and David Thomas
Personal Finance

Profile
The Globe and Mail
James Bradshaw and Christine Dobby
Blais

Airlines/Travel Large

Winner: Associated Press; Justin Pritchard, Martha Mendoza, Scott Mayerowitz and David Koenig; Airport Security

Airlines/Travel Medium

Winner: The San Diego Union-Tribune; Lori Weisberg, Daniel Wheaton and Phillip Molnar; Airbnb: Opportunity or Nuisance?

Airlines/Travel Small

Winner: Honolulu Civil Beat; Nathan Eagle and Marina Riker; Dying for Vacation

Audio

Winner: NPR News and Planet Money; Chris Arnold, Robert Smith, Elizabeth Kulas, Uri Berliner, Neal Carruth, Bryant Urstadt and Alex Goldmark; Wells Fargo Hustle

Honorable Mention: Bloomberg News; Brad Stone, Aki Ito, Pia Gadkari, Magnus Henrikson, Liz Smith, Jordan Robertson, Sarah McBride, Marie Mawad and Spencer Soper; Decrypted

Autos/Transportation Medium and Large

Winner: Fortune; Geoffrey Smith and Roger Parloff; Hoaxwagen

Honorable Mention: Bloomberg News; Eric Newcomer, Selina Wang and Olivia Zaleski; Uber’s Upending the Transportation Industry

Autos/Transportation Small

Winner: Providence Business News; Mary MacDonald, Eli Sherman, Mark S. Murphy and Mike Mello; Bridges Too Far Gone

Banking/Finance Large

Winner: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy D.C. Bureau and the Miami Herald; Panama Papers

Honorable Mention: CNNMoney.com; Matt Egan; Wells Fargo’s Broken Culture and the Devastation It Wrought

Banking/Finance Medium

Winner: Fortune; Stephen Gandel on banking

Banking/Finance Small

Winner: Financial Planning; Ann Marsh; Johnny Burris investigation

Honorable Mention: AmericanBanker.com; Kevin Wack, Dean Anason, Alan Kline and Marc Hochstein; How Wells Fargo’s Culture Soured

Breaking News Large

Winner: Reuters; Joseph Menn; Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails for U.S. Intelligence

Honorable Mention: Bloomberg BusinessWeek; Monte Reel; Secret Cameras Record Baltimore’s Every Move From Above

Breaking News Medium

Winner: Charlotte Observer; Rick Rothacker, Ely Portillo, Katherine Peralta, Deon Roberts and John Arwood; PayPal Withdraws Plans for Charlotte Expansion Over HB2

Honorable Mention: St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Jacob Barker, Lisa Brown, Bryce Gray, Jim Gallagher and Samantha Liss; Bayer Buys Monsanto

Breaking News Small

Winner: Iraq Oil Report; Ben Lando, Ben Van Heuvelen, Patrick Osgood, Rawaz Tahir, Mohammed Hussein, Rebin Fatah and staff who are anonymous for their security; Liberating Qayarah

Honorable Mention: Crain’s New York Business; Aaron Elstein and Jeremy Smerd; Trump’s Middle Class Tax Break

Commentary/Opinion Large

Winner: Bloomberg View, Timothy L. O’Brien

Honorable Mention: The New York Times; James B. Stewart; Common Sense

Honorable Mention: Bloomberg Businessweek, Peter Coy

Commentary/Opinion Medium

Winner: The Atlantic; Derek Thompson

Honorable Mention: Minneapolis Star Tribune; Lee Schafer

Honorable Mention: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Matt Kempner; Unofficial Business

Commentary/Opinion Small

Winner: Sarasota Herald-Tribune; Maggie Menderski; What’s in Store

Economics Large

Winner: The Wall Street Journal; Jon Hilsenrath and Bob Davis; The Great Unraveling

Economics Medium

Winner: Minneapolis Star Tribune; Adam Belz; Rising From Poverty

Economics Small

Winner: PolitiFact; Louis Jacobson on economics

Energy/Natural Resources Large

Winner: The Financial Times; Tom Burgis, Pilita Clark, Michael Peel, Charlie Bibby and Kari Ruth Pedersen; Great Land Rush

Energy/Natural Resources Medium

Winner: San Antonio Express-News; Jennifer Hiller; Mood Turns Black as Oil as a Boom Turns Bust

Honorable Mention: Honolulu Star-Advertiser; Kathryn Mykleseth; GEMS

Energy/Natural Resources Small

Winner: Iraq Oil Report; Ben Lando, Ben Van Heuvelen, Patrick Osgood, Rawaz Tahir, Mohammed Hussein, Mahmoud Zaki and staff who are anonymous for their security; ISIS and Iraq’s Oil

Explanatory Large

Winner: Associated Press; Nicholas Riccardi, Christopher S. Rugaber and Josh Boak; Divided America

Honorable Mention: Yahoo Finance; Rick Newman explanatory features

Honorable Mention: CNBC; Nikhil Deogun, Jim Ackerman, Mitch Weitzner,  Reid Collins Jr., Meghan Lisson, Amber Mazzola, Patrick Ahearn, Steven T. Banton, Allison E. Stedman, Rich Korn, Justin Solomon, Charlotte Lewis, Alex Herrera, Roberto Leon, Gerry Miller, Jorge Pujol, Raul Jaramillo, Felipe Leon, Mary Murray, Orlando Matos, Odalys Garcia, Paola Larramendi, Margarita Alarcon, Carlos Bustamante, Evelyn Gruber, Veronica Albornoz, Mark Ohlsen, Christie Gripenburg, Elizabeth Kim, Rakeesha Wrigley, George Pierro, Richard Marko, Tom Russo, Angel Perez, Vito Tattoli, Victoria Todis, John Rehm, Jacqueline Dessel, Nick O’Connor, Salvatore Carosone, Lauren Ricci-Horn, Jonathan Altino, Lawrence Beer, Kyle Kinder, Jamie Bland, Julia Jester, Amanda Winograd, Erika Banoun, Annie Bryan, Aidan Kelley, Marlon Ramtahal and Erin Kitzie; The Profit in Cuba

Explanatory Medium

Winner: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today; John Fauber, Kristina Fiore and Matt Wynn; Illness Inflation

Honorable Mention: The Providence Journal; Kate Bramson; Following the People’s Money

Honorable Mention: Quartz; Gwynn Guilford; Everything We Thought We Knew About Free Trade Is Wrong

Explanatory Small

Winner: The Desert Sun; Rosalie Murphy, Robert Hopwood and Christopher Weddle; Land leasing in Palm Springs

Honorable Mention: Crain’s New York Business; Aaron Elstein, Peter D’Amato and Jeremy Smerd; Collection of explanatory stories

Honorable Mention: Los Angeles Business Journal; Henry Meier; Competitors Raise Stink Over Garlic

Feature Large

Winner: Bloomberg Businessweek; Shannon Pettypiece and David Voreacos; Walmart’s Out-of-Control Crime Problem Is Driving Police Crazy

Honorable Mention: Associated Press; Hannah Dreier; Venezuela, Life on the Line

Honorable Mention: The Wall Street Journal; Justin Scheck; Tramadol: The Opioid Crisis for the Rest of the World

Feature Medium

Winner: Fortune; Brian O’Keefe; Bitter Sweets

Honorable Mention: Fortune; Erika Fry; Hot Mess

Honorable Mention: Houston Chronicle; David Hunn; Behind Apache’s oil find

Feature Small

Winner: Inc. Magazine; Burt Helm, Jon Fine and Will Yakowicz; The Stealthy Sales Kings of Amazon

Honorable Mention: Crain’s New York Business; Jeff Koyen and Jeremy Smerd; In Search of the Hot Dog Millionaire

Honorable Mention: Kiplinger’s Personal Finance; Janet Bodnar and Kimberly Lankford; Making a Plan for a Special Needs Child

General Excellence Industry/Topic Specific

Winner: Financial Planning

General Excellence Large

Winner: Los Angeles Times

General Excellence Medium

Winner: Minneapolis Star Tribune

Honorable Mention: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

General Excellence Small

Winner: Crain’s New York Business

Honorable Mention: Nashville Business Journal

Health/Science Large

Winner: Chicago Tribune; Sam Roe, Karisa King and Ray Long; Dangerous Doses

Honorable Mention: Los Angeles Times; Melody Petersen; Hospitals’ losing battle with superbugs

Health/Science Medium

Winner: The Sacramento Bee; Marjie Lundstrom and Phillip Reese; A Dangerous Mix

Honorable Mention: Forbes; Matt Herper; The God Pill

Health/Science Small

Winner: STAT; David Armstrong; Opioid Crisis

Honorable Mention: Project on Government Oversight; David S. Hilzenrath; Drug Money

Innovation Large

Winner: BuzzFeed News and BBC; Heidi Blake, John Templon and Simon Cox; The Tennis Racket

Innovation Small and Medium

Winner: ProPublica and The Texas Tribune; Neena Satija, Kiah Collier, Al Shaw, Jeff Larson and Ryan Murphy; Hell and High Water

International Large

Winner: Reuters; Selam Gebrekidan, Stephen Grey and Amina Ismail; The Migration Machine

Honorable Mention: Associated Press; Hannah Dreier and Joshua Goodman; Venezuela Undone

International Medium

Winner: Fortune; Erika Fry; Hot Mess

International Small

Winner: The Center for Public Integrity; Erin Quinn, Gordon Witkin, John Dunbar and Patrick Madden; Rape, Murder, Famine – and $2.1 Million for K Street PR

Investigative Large

Winner: BuzzFeed News; Rosalind Adams; Intake: Locked on the Psych Ward

Honorable Mention: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy D.C. Bureau and the Miami Herald; Panama Papers

Honorable Mention: The Wall Street Journal; John Carreyrou, Christopher Weaver and Michael Siconolfi; The Downfall of Theranos

Investigative Medium

Winner: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Cary Spivak and Kevin Crowe; Landlord Games

Honorable Mention: Houston Chronicle; Mark Collette, Matt Dempsey and Susan Carroll; Chemical Breakdown

Honorable Mention: San Jose Mercury News; Louis Hansen, Michelle Quinn, Karen Casto and Mike Frankel; The Hidden Workforce Expanding Tesla’s Factory

Investigative Small

Winner: The Investigative Fund and The Nation; Seth Wessler; Dying In Private Prisons

Honorable Mention: ProPublica; Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu, Lauren Kirchner and Terry Parris Jr.; Machine Bias

Honorable Mention: Indianapolis Business Journal; John Russell and Greg Andrews; CEO Behind $500M Proposal Has Mixed Track Record

Management/Leadership/Career Medium and Large

Winner: The Atlantic; Elizabeth Samet, John Paul Rollert and Jerry Useem; Business Leaders and the Mixed Feelings They Inspire

Management/Leadership/Career Small

Winner: Money Magazine; Cybele Weisser, Kerri Anne Renzulli, Megan Leonhardt and Elaine Pofeldt; MONEYcareer

Honorable Mention: BBC Capital; Jennifer Merritt and Ronald Alsop; Generation Work

Markets Medium and Large

Winner: Bloomberg Markets; Javier Blas and Andy Hoffman; Inside Vitol: How the World’s Largest Oil Trader Makes Billions

Markets Small

Winner: Crain’s Chicago Business; Joe Cahill on Business

Media/Entertainment Large

Co-winner: The Wall Street Journal; Keach Hagey, Joe Flint and Amol Sharma; The Power Struggle Inside Viacom

Co-winner: Bloomberg Businessweek; Max Chafkin and Sarah Frier; Snapchat

Media/Entertainment Small and Medium

Winner: Fortune; Peter Elkind with Marty Jones; Disturbing Decline of Sumner Redstone

Personal Finance Large

Winner: The New York Times; Tara Siegel Bernard and Ron Lieber; Public Sacrifice

Personal Finance Medium

Winner: Slate; Helaine Olen; Ask the Bills

Personal Finance Small

Winner: Money Magazine; Elizabeth O’Brien, Taylor Tepper and Celeste Sloman; The High Cost of Coping

Honorable Mention: Kiplinger’s Personal Finance; Janet Bodnar, Jane Bennett Clark, Sandra Block and Kathy Kristof; Women and Money

Real Estate Large

Winner: The New York Times; Alexandra Stevenson and Matthew Goldstein; The Housing Trap

Real Estate Medium

Winner: ProPublica and The Real Deal; Cezary Podkul, Marcelo Rochabrun, Derek Kravitz and Will Parker; The Rent Racket

Honorable Mention: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Cary Spivak and Kevin Crowe; Landlord Games

Real Estate Small

Winner: The Desert Sun: Rosalie Murphy, Robert Hopwood and Christopher Weddle: Land leasing in Palm Springs

Honorable Mention: Puget Sound Business Journal; Marc Stiles on real estate

Retail Large

Winner: Bloomberg Businessweek; David Ingold and Spencer Soper; Three stories about Amazon Prime

Retail Medium

Winner: Fortune; Phil Wahba on retail

Retail Small

Winner: Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal; Bill King and David Bourne; Designing a Future

Small Business

Winner: Indianapolis Business Journal; Hayleigh Colombo; E-cigarette Players Fume Over Favored Security Firm

Students – Professional Publications

Winner: Dallas Morning News and University of North Texas; Dalton LaFerney; The Rise and Fall of the Frack Master

Honorable Mention: The Wall Street Journal and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Sarah E. Chaney; Bankruptcy Becomes an Option for Some Borrowers Burdened by Student Loans

Students – Student Publications

Winner: Washington and Lee University; Athena Cao, Zebrina Edgerton-Maloy and Logan Hendrix; Borrowing Trouble

Honorable Mention: University of Maryland; Brittany Britto; Purple Line: A Divided Rail

Honorable Mention: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Joe Baglio, Elizabeth Fleischer, Elizabeth Harvell, Natalie Hoberman, Lauren Hong, Lauren Thomas, Evanne Timberlake, Justina Vasquez, Hailey Waller and Wei Zhou; North Carolina Business News Wire

Technology Large

Winner: Bloomberg Businessweek; Monte Reel and Robert Kolker; Surveillance: The Private-Sector War on Privacy

Technology Medium

Winner: Forbes.com; Matt Drange; Selling Guns on Facebook a Problem Even Facebook Can’t Solve

Honorable Mention: Fusion.net; Kashmir Hill; How an Internet Mapping Glitch Turned a Random Kansas Farm Into a Digital Hell

Technology Small

Winner: The Center for Public Integrity; Allan Holmes, Ben Wieder, Eleanor Bell Fox, Chris Zubak-Skees and Gordon Witkin; Broadband Inequality

Honorable Mention: Gizmodo; Michael Nunez; Facebook’s Identity Crisis

Video Large

Winner: The Financial Times; Kathrin Hille, Vanessa Kortekaas, Steve Ager and Russell Birkett; Frozen Dreams: Russia’s Arctic Obsession

Honorable Mention: Bloomberg Businessweek; Ashlee Vance; Hello World

Video Small and Medium

Winner: Weather.com and Telemundo Network; Gregory Gilderman, Neil Katz, Shawn Efran and Marisa Venegas; The Source and Cosecha de Miseria (Harvest of Misery)

Audio Winner
“Your Money and Your Life,” by Chris Arnold, Uri Berliner, Neal Carruth, Lori Todd, John Ydstie, Heidi Glenn, Ariel Zambelich, Avie Schneider, Alyson Hurt and Annette Elizabeth Allen, NPR

Beat Reporting Winner
“Testing Theranos,” by John Carreyrou, Michael Siconolfi and Christopher Weaver, The Wall Street Journal

Breaking News Winner
“Inside the Dow-DuPont Merger,” by David Benoit, Jacob Bunge, Dana Cimilluca, Dana Mattioli and Dennis K. Berman, The Wall Street Journal

Commentary Winner
“Inside the Boardroom,” by James B. Stewart, The New York Times

Explanatory Winner
“Insult to Injury: America’s Vanishing Worker Protections,” by Michael Grabell, Howard Berkes and Lena Groeger, ProPublica & NPR

Feature Winner
“The Unraveling of Tom Hayes,” by David Enrich, The Wall Street Journal

Images/Graphics/Interactives Winner
“Making Data Visual,” by Amanda Cox, Gregor Aisch, Kevin Quealy, Matthew Bloch, Wilson Andrews, Josh Keller, Karen Yourish, Eric Buth, Nicholas Confessore and Sarah Cohen, The New York Times

International Winner
“Malaysia’s Missing Millions,” by Tom Wright, Bradley Hope, Simon Clark, Mia Lamar, Justin Baer, Tom Di Fonzo and Paolo Bosonin, The Wall Street Journal

Investigative Winner
“Seafood from Slaves,” by Margie Mason, Martha Mendoza, Robin McDowell and Esther Htusan, The Associated Press

Local Winners
“Payday at the Mill,” by Whit Richardson and Steve Mistler, Portland Press Herald & Maine Sunday Telegram

Personal Finance Winner
“Aging’s Costliest Challenge,” by Donna Rosato, Kate Santichen, Alexandra Mondalek and Shayla Hunter, Money Magazine

Video Winner
“Joanna Stern’s Videos,” by Joanna Stern and Drew Evans, The Wall Street Journal