Knowledge@Wharton Awards for Business Journalism

The awards provide journalists with a scholarship to attend the Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists 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.

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 <http://www.saja.org>, 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 (http://www.saja.org/stylebook) -- "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.