Elliott V. Bell Presentation to James B. Stewart

Special Event
When: October 19, 2011
Where: CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, New York, NY
The New York Financial Writers Association will award the 2011 Elliott V. Bell Award, honoring an individual’s lifetime contributions to the field of financial journalism, to James B. Stewart, New York Times columnist and award-winning financial journalist and author. Stewart currently writes the “Common Sense” column for the Business Day section of The New York Times. In 1988, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism for his articles in The Wall Street Journal about the 1987 dramatic upheaval in the stock market and insider trading. Trained as a lawyer, he was previously the executive editor of American Lawyer magazine. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker. He is a graduate of DePauw University, where he serves on the board, Harvard Law School, and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where he is now Bloomberg Professor of Business and Economic Journalism. The Elliott V. Bell Award presentation ceremony is on Wednesday, October 19, at 7 PM, at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, 219 West 40th Street. There will be a wine & cheese reception following the award presentation. RSVPs are essential: nyfwa@aol.com. (Your name must be on the list to be admitted to the CUNY building.) For a complete list of previous winners, see http://www.nyfwa.org/bellwinners.htm