Awards/Honors

-2011 Society of American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business award winner in the features category (for dailies with more than 500,000 circulation) for Detroit Free Press series “Work Wanted – Desperately”

-Part of Detroit Free Press team that in 2009 won a breaking news excellence award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for story about Delta Air Lines’ acquisition of Northwest Airlines

-Part of Detroit Free Press team that in 2008 received a Gerald Loeb Award for honorable mention, breaking news for stories about a new United Auto Workers labor contract

-Finalist for the Institute on Political Journalism’s 2006 Excellence in Economic Journalism Award for year-long Dallas Morning News series about China’s impact on the Texas economy

-Finalist for the 2003, 2004 and 2005 Livingston Awards for young journalists for Dallas Morning News stories about Enron, the North American Free Trade Agreement and the economic crisis facing the middle class

-Detroit Press Foundation’s 1998 Golden Wheel Award for Detroit News story examining the affordability of new vehicles

-Selected for a Reuters Foundation international journalism workshop in Beijing, China in 2008