NEW YORK, October 16 — The South Asian Journalists Association is pleased to announce the five outstanding journalists who have won the 2006 Knowledge@Wharton Awards for Business Journalism, sponsored by SAJA, the Wharton School and the Knowledge@Wharton online business journal.
Jewel Gopwani, a business writer at the Detroit Free Press, is the winner of the seventh annual SAJA-Knowledge@Wharton Award.
Gopwani, a member of the South Asian Journalists Association, was selected with four other winners of this year's Knowledge@Wharton Awards, who will all receive scholarships to attend the prestigious Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania:
- Angie Lau, an investigative consumer reporter at WEWS-TV in Cleveland and member of the Asian American Journalists Association, won the AAJA-Knowledge@Wharton Award.
- Corilyn Shropshire, a staff writer/columnist at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and member of the National Association of Black Journalists, won the NABJ-Knowledge@Wharton Award.
- Ellie Estrada, a reporter/anchor at KMTR NewsSource 16, in Eugene, Ore., and member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, won the NAHJ-Knowledge@Wharton Award.
- Julie Nolin, a freelance journalist in Vancouver, British Columbia, and member of the Native American Journalists Association, won the NAJA-Knowledge@Wharton Award.
“Every journalist who has taken this seminar has gained valuable skills from it, and I have no doubt that this year’s winners will do the same,” said SAJA President Deepti Hajela. “The awards provide journalists of color with a unique learning opportunity. SAJA is grateful to Knowledge@Wharton and the entire team at the Wharton School for their support for the seventh consecutive year."
The awards provide journalists with a scholarship to attend the Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists from October 22-25, 2006, in Philadelphia (a $1,995 value).
Knowledge@Wharton and SAJA launched the award in 1999 and later expanded it to include the four organizations in UNITY: Journalists of Color -- AAJA, NABJ, NAHJ and NAJA. SAJA administer the awards and selects winners for Wharton with a judging panel representing all five journalism groups.
"Knowledge@Wharton seeks to disseminate the knowledge behind the news, and the continuing support of the Knowledge@Wharton Awards for SAJA and the UNITY organizations fits in well with this mission," said Mukul Pandya, editor of Knowledge@Wharton. "We are delighted to welcome this year's winners to the Wharton Seminars."
Any member of SAJA, AAJA, NABJ, NAHJ, NAJA who is a reporter, editor or producer (including freelancers) currently living in the United States or Canada and working in business journalism or a field that overlaps, such as healthcare or technology. Applicants must be available to attend the Wharton program this year. Individuals with two to seven years of experience as a business reporter or those new to business reporting, but with five to 10 years of experience as a reporter in another field, are encouraged to apply.
Winners of the Knowledge@Wharton Awards since 1999
2006
SAJA - Jewel Gopwani, Detroit Free Press
AAJA - Angie Lau, WEWS-TV (Cleveland)
NABJ - Corilyn Shropshire, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
NAHJ - Ellie Estrada, KMTR NewsSource 16 (Eugene, Ore.)
NAJA - Julie Nolin, freelance journalist (Vancouver)
2005
SAJA - Gita Sitaramiah, St. Paul Pioneer Press
AAJA - Janet Cho, Cleveland Plain Dealer
NAHJ - Ivaneide Leite, freelance journalist
NAJA - Shawna Gamache, freelance journalist
2004
SAJA - Krishnan Anantharaman, The Wall Street Journal & Sudeep Reddy, The Dallas Morning News
AAJA - Li Jing, Voice of America
2003
SAJA - Vandana Sinha, Reynolds Center for Business Journalism
2002
SAJA - Sandeep Junnarkar, CNET News.com
2001
SAJA -
Menaka Doshi, CNBC
2000
SAJA - S. Mitra Kalita, Newsday
1999
SAJA - Snigdha Prakash, National Public Radio
About Knowledge@Wharton and the Wharton School
Knowledge@Wharton <http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu>is a free biweekly online resource that captures knowledge generated at Wharton through such channels as research papers, conferences, books, and interviews with faculty on current business topics, and distributes that knowledge online to a global business audience.
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is recognized around the world for its academic strengths across every major discipline and at every level of business education. Founded in 1881 as the first collegiate business school in the nation, Wharton has approximately 4,600 undergraduate, MBA, and doctoral students, more than 8,000 participants in its executive education programs annually, and an alumni network of more than 80,000 worldwide.
About South Asian Journalists Association
The South Asian Journalists Association, was founded in March 1994 as a networking group for journalists of South Asian origin in New York City. It has grown into a national group of over 800 journalists working for leading newspapers, broadcast networks and new media outlets in various cities in the US and Canada. The organization is best known for its Web-based SAJA Stylebook for Covering South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora -- "Learn to tell your Hindi from Hindu, and much, much more." -- and its annual SAJA Journalism Awards, which recognize outstanding coverage of South Asia and excellence in reporting by South Asian journalists and students in the U.S. and Canada. Each year, more than 700 journalists attend the SAJA National Convention in New York.
Questions: Sudeep Reddy, SAJA Scholarships Chair, sreddy [at] dallasnews.com