New Haven BIZ has won five awards for editorial excellence from the Connecticut chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (CT/SPJ). The group announced the statewide award-winners Thursday as part of a virtual awards ceremony.
The annual awards competition celebrates the best work by Connecticut journalists in print, broadcast and online published in 2019.
Since 1966, CT/SPJ has been aimed at improving, protecting and promoting professional journalism across the state.
New Haven BIZ earned first-place honors for two stories published in 2019:
• NHB Managing Editor Michelle Tuccitto Sullo earned top honors for business reporting in the magazine division for the feature, “The Only Constant Is Change: How To Survive in Manufacturing.” The story, published July 2, profiled a half-dozen manufacturing companies that have traced their roots to the 19th century, and survived and thrived to prosper into the 21st century.
• Natalie Missakian took the top prize for health reporting in the magazine division for “Drugged Out,” an in-depth feature story published last January on New Haven-headquartered Melinta Therapeutics (formerly Rib-X).
Two NHB stories were second-place winners in 2019:
• For business reporting in the magazine division, Michelle Tuccitto Sullo’s “Why Quantum Circuits’ [Rob] Schoelkopf May Be the Steve Jobs of the 21st Century,” published September 1.
• For health reporting in the magazine division, Editor Michael C. Bingham’s September 1 profile “On the Wings of Love: [Jonathan] Rothberg’s Revolutionary Ultrasound Device Meets the Marketplace.”
One NHB story was a third-place winner last year:
• In the Arts & Entertainment reporting division, Frank Rizzo’s “Long Wharf’s Leap of Faith,” published last September 1.
NHB’s sibling publication, the Hartford Business Journal, also took home eight honors in the 2019 CT/SPJ awards competition, including four first-place awards for editorial excellence.
Both New Haven BIZ and the Hartford Business Journal are published by New England Business Media.
