The Best Business Stories of the Year 2003 - Tapa blanda

The third in a series of annual anthologies presents the year's most noteworthy and influential articles on diverse aspects of the business world, featuring Jeff Manning and Gail Kinsey on the long-term impact of the Enron debacle, Nicholas Stein on the fall of Chiquita Banana, and an article by the late Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Original. 17,500 first printing.

Andrew Leckey, nationally syndicated investment columnist for the Chicago Tribune Company, is also visiting professor in Business and Economics Journalism at Boston University’s College of Communication. He was previously a financial anchor on the CNBC cable television network, contributing editor of the Quicken.com financial web site, and director of the Business Reporting Program at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been author or editor of eight financial books. Leckey received the National Association of Investors Corporation’s Distinguished Service Award in Investment Education. He was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism and a fellow of the Media Studies Center, both at Columbia University.

Allan Sloan, guest editor and Newsweek’s Wall Street editor, has had a distinguished 30-year business-writing career. A five-time winner of the Gerald Loeb Award, business journalism’s highest honor, he also received the Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award and the Distinguished Achievement Award of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Sloan is a contributor to Public Radio International’s “Marketplace” and frequently appears as a commentator on the PBS television program, “Nightly Business Report.” Previously a columnist at Newsday and a senior editor at Forbes, Sloan has also held positions at Money magazine, the Detroit Free Press, and the Charlotte Observer. He was named an alumnus of the year in 1999 by the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.