J-school students win SABEW Best in Business

UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media seniors Andrew Dunn and Matthew Lynley were named student winners in the 2009 Society of American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business contest.

The wins mark the fifth time in the six years of the contest that a UNC student has won the SABEW Best in Business Award. A UNC student finished second the other year.

Dunn, editor of The Daily Tar Heel, won in the professional publication category for a story he wrote this past summer while working on the Charlotte Observer business news desk. The story focused on a housing scam occurring in the state.

Lynley, a senior from Houston, won in the student publication category for a story he wrote for The Daily Tar Heel about why big-box retailers are not welcome in Chapel Hill.

Dunn and Lynley will receive an all-expense paid trip to the SABEW conference in Phoenix, March 19-21.

Dunn, a senior from Apex, will intern for the Triangle Business Journal in Raleigh this summer, while Lynley will intern for Reuters on its New York business desk.

In 2008, the winners were J-school students Catarina Saraiva and Laura Marcinek. Saraiva won in the professional publication category for a story she wrote about the adult care industry for the Triangle Business Journal, where she interned. She now works for Bloomberg News in New York.

Marcinek won in the student publication category for a story she wrote in The Daily Tar Heel about UNC's fundraising during the current economic turmoil. Marcinek, currently a senior, has accepted a job to work for Bloomberg in New York beginning July 12.