For the fifth consecutive BusinessMirror was adjudged the “Business News Source of the Year” at Friday night’s Economic Journalists Association of the Philippines (EJAP) Awards for 2021.
BusinessMirror earlier earned that distinction for business news coverage overall in 2017, 2018, 20 19 and 2020.
In 2015, it was also the Business News Source of the Year.
The newspaper, which recently marked its 17th anniversary, bagged the top EJAP awards for having the most number of winners in the individual categories.
Lenie Lectura was named Energy Reporter of the Year; and Bianca Cuaresma, Banking Reporter of the Year.
Tyrone Jasper Piad won for best in Trade reporting while his article “Village people’s zest won’t let Covid stop the music of business,” was chosen the best in the Business Feature category. Piad has since moved to the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
The other individual winners are: Miguel Camus of Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI), Telecoms Reporter of the Year; Angela Celis-Mercurio of Malaya Business Insight, Macroeconomy Reporter of the Year; Doris Dumlao-Abadilla of PDI, PSE-SEC Reporter of the Year; Elijah Felice Rosales of Philippine Star, Finance Reporter of the Year; Karl Ocampo of PDI, Agriculture and Mining Reporter of the Year; and Jon Viktor Cabuenas of GMA, Online Reporter of the Year.
BusinessMirror was founded in October 2005 by the late ambassador to Laos, the businessman-philanthropist Antonio L. Cabangon Chua, who also set up dozens of enterprises under the ALC Group of Companies.
The EJAP-Ayala Business Journalism Awards for 2021 was organized by the EJAP and Ayala Land, Inc.