We’re proud to report this morning that one of our own has added his name to the summit log in the “Top of the Rockies” journalism competition awards, a program organized by the Colorado Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Michael Davidson, who joined Xconomy just over a year ago as editor of Xconomy Boulder Denver, was recognized for his work in two separate categories of business reporting in all online publications–winning the top prize in both categories.
Mike received a first-place award in business enterprise reporting for one of his first lengthy takeouts: Scaling the Peak: Denver Out to Follow Boulder’s Entrepreneurial Ascent. The judges commented that it was an interesting look at Denver’s ecosystem for startups and entrepreneurs, and the comparison to Boulder’s successes “was really helpful in showing where Denver has to go.”
Mike also received a first-place award in general business reporting for New World of Crowdfunding Waits as SEC Struggles to Complete its Job, a story that marked the first anniversary of the Jumpstart Our Startup Businesses, or JOBS Act.
The awards were bestowed Friday evening at the Denver Press Club. The local chapter oversees the annual awards program for journalists in four states—Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Wyoming—and were judged this year by Society of Professional Journalists panels in San Diego and Hawaii.
Author: Bruce V. Bigelow
In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here.
Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.
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