Students win SABEW Best in Business contest
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UNC journalism students Catarina Saraiva and Laura Marcinek were named the student winners in the 2008 Society of American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business contest March 24.
Saraiva, a senior from Raleigh, won in the professional publication category for a story she wrote about the adult care industry for the Triangle Business Journal, where she interned last summer.
Marcinek, a junior from Essex, Conn., won in the student publication category for a story she wrote for The Daily Tar Heel about UNC's fundraising in the current economic turmoil.
The wins mark the fourth time in five years that a UNC student has won the SABEW Best in Business Award. A UNC student finished second the other year.
Both students will intern for Bloomberg News in New York this summer.
In 2007, the winner was Daniel Johnson, a UNC master's student who wrote his thesis about the wine industry in Walla Walla, Wash. Part of his thesis was published in the Seattle Times. Johnson is a freelance writer in Ecuador.
In 2006, UNC student Amy Thomson was the runner-up for a story she wrote while interning at Bloomberg News about gun maker Smith & Wesson. Thomson works full-time for Bloomberg in New York, covering Microsoft.
In 2005, UNC student Emily Steel was the winner for a story she wrote while interning at the St. Petersburg Times about compensation at non-profits in the Tampa Bay area. Steel covers advertising for The Wall Street Journal.
In 2004, UNC students John Frank and Steel won for a Daily Tar Heel story about the resignation of UNC chief investment officer Mark Yusko to start a hedge fund. Frank now works for the St. Petersburg Times.