AK Steel coverage brings kudos
Dayton Business Journal
Don Baker, who covers manufacturing, technology and sports business for the Dayton Business Journal, recently earned national recognition for a comprehensive package of stories he wrote this spring on AK Steel.
The package, titled "Nerves of Steel," was one of eight winners in the annual Financial Writers and Editors Awards hosted by Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. The awards recognize the best coverage of personal finance and investing by Midwestern and national news organizations.
Baker's submission won for best profile of a publicly traded Midwestern company that offers useful information for investors. Other winners were from the Chicago Tribune, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Money magazine and USA Today, among others.
"Nerves of Steel," published in DBJ's May 1 edition, examined Middletown-based AK Steel and its labor relations and environmental disputes in a way, according to contest judges, "that make it a model of good reporting."
"Using public documents and plenty of old-fashioned legwork, Baker assembles an even-handed portrait, thoroughgoing in its reporting and lucid in its writing," judges wrote. "Having no access to company sources may have led him to a more balanced treatment of other elements, particularly on the labor front. The union's point of view is presented along with AK's public-record positions, but this is no bleeding-heart pitch for sympathy; the lockout is a business problem and is treated as such."
Baker and other award recipients will be honored Oct. 30 at a ceremony in Milwaukee.
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