This week, Business Insider won six SF Press Club Awards during the 47th Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards.
We were awarded first place in the following categories:
- Series or Continuing Coverage: Rosalie Chan for "The dark side of Silicon Slopes." Following this reporting Rosalie also covered Utah's VC industry, Domo's CEO and legislation passed in Utah that makes company NDAs on sexual assault and harassment unenforceable.
- Blog / Commentary: Alistair Barr's and Adam Rogers' "Death by LLM: Stack Overflow's decline, and its plan to survive, shows the future of free online data in an AI world."
- Columns-Features: Adam Rogers' "San Francisco, tech, and urbanism."
Business Insider was also recognized in other categories:
- Feature Story / Light Subject: Rob Price earned second place for his piece on LinkedIn getting weird;
- Investigative Reporting: Matt Drange, Hannah Beckler, Narimes Parakul, Sophie Kleeman and Esther Kaplan received second place for unraveling 40 years of sexual misconduct at a single California high school and Nicole Einbinder, Dakin Campbell and Esther Kaplan received third place wins for for uncovering how the prison healthcare giant Corizon had pulled a controversial legal maneuver
- Blog / Commentary: Alistair Barr received third place for his piece on OpenAI being unable to identify AI-generated texts.
Alistair Barr, Global Tech Editor and San Francisco Bureau Chief, shared, "This is a testament to the hard work and diligent, balanced reporting efforts of several Bay Area-based Business Insider colleagues, including Rosalie Chan, Adam Rogers, Rob Price, and Matt Drange.
"Rosalie Chan pursued a delicate and sometimes traumatic storyline in Utah's Silicon Slopes, helping to voice concerns of women workers there, while protecting sources and balancing input from companies and executives. Adam Rogers brings complex technical and social issues to life, and tackles real-world problems with practical and ambitious solutions — all packaged in elegant, compelling, and amusing prose," Barr added.