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Annual Knowledge@Wharton Scholarships for Business Journalism

CONTACT: Sandeep Junnarkar, SAJA awards chair, sajamember[at]gmail.com

South Asian Journalists Association announces winners of the

2007 Knowledge@Wharton Awards for Business Journalism

NEW YORK, September 25 — The South Asian Journalists Association is pleased to announce the four outstanding journalists who have won the 2007 Knowledge@Wharton Awards for Business Journalism, sponsored by SAJA, the Wharton School and the Knowledge@Wharton online business journal.

Priya Ganapati, a staff writer at TheStreet.com, is the winner of the eigth annual SAJA-Knowledge@Wharton Award.

Ganapati, a member of the South Asian Journalists Association, was selected with three other winners of this year's Knowledge@Wharton Awards, who will all receive scholarships to attend the prestigious Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania:

  • Mhari Saito, a reporter at WCPN in Cleveland and member of the Asian American Journalists Association, won the AAJA-Knowledge@Wharton Award.
  • Karen Rouse, a staff writer at the Denver Post and member of the National Association of Black Journalists, won the NABJ-Knowledge@Wharton Award.
  • Jim Medina, a business editor at Ventura County Star and member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, won the NAHJ-Knowledge@Wharton Award.

"The Knowledge@Wharton seminar is an immensely valuable opportunity that we are thrilled to be a part of," said SAJA President Deepti Hajela. "I have no doubt that this year's winners will have wonderful experiences. We're grateful to the Wharton School for the 8th year of continued support."

The awards provide journalists with a scholarship to attend the Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists from October 14-17, 2007, in Philadelphia (a $1,995 value).

Knowledge@Wharton and SAJA launched the award in 1999 and later expanded it to include the four organizations in UNITY: Journalists of Color -- AAJA, NABJ, NAHJ and NAJA. SAJA administer the awards and selects winners for Wharton with a judging panel representing all five journalism groups.

"Knowledge@Wharton seeks to disseminate the knowledge behind the news, and the continuing support of the Knowledge@Wharton Awards for SAJA and the UNITY organizations fits in well with this mission," said Mukul Pandya, editor of Knowledge@Wharton. "We are delighted to welcome this year's winners to the Wharton Seminars."

Any member of SAJA, AAJA, NABJ, NAHJ, NAJA who is a reporter, editor or producer (including freelancers) currently living in the United States or Canada and working in business journalism or a field that overlaps, such as healthcare or technology. Applicants must be available to attend the Wharton program this year. Individuals with two to seven years of experience as a business reporter or those new to business reporting, but with five to 10 years of experience as a reporter in another field, are encouraged to apply.

Winners of the Knowledge@Wharton Awards since 1999

2006
SAJA - Jewel Gopwani, Detroit Free Press
AAJA - Angie Lau, WEWS-TV (Cleveland)
NABJ - Corilyn Shropshire, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
NAHJ - Ellie Estrada, KMTR NewsSource 16 (Eugene, Ore.)
NAJA - Julie Nolin, freelance journalist (Vancouver)

2005
SAJA - Gita Sitaramiah, St. Paul Pioneer Press
AAJA - Janet Cho, Cleveland Plain Dealer
NAHJ - Ivaneide Leite, freelance journalist
NAJA - Shawna Gamache, freelance journalist

2004
SAJA - Krishnan Anantharaman, The Wall Street Journal & Sudeep Reddy, The Dallas Morning News
AAJA - Li Jing, Voice of America

2003
SAJA - Vandana Sinha, Reynolds Center for Business Journalism

2002
SAJA - Sandeep Junnarkar, CNET News.com

2001
SAJA - Menaka Doshi, CNBC

2000
SAJA - S. Mitra Kalita, Newsday

1999
SAJA - Snigdha Prakash, National Public Radio

About Knowledge@Wharton and the Wharton School

Knowledge@Wharton, <http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/> is a free biweekly online resource that captures knowledge generated at Wharton through such channels as research papers, conferences, books, and interviews with faculty on current business topics, and distributes that knowledge online to a global business audience. The Knowledge@Wharton network includes more than 900,000 subscribers and contains more than 2,000 articles and research papers in its database, with more added every week.

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania -- founded in 1881 as the first collegiate business school -- is recognized globally for intellectual leadership and ongoing innovation across every major discipline of business education. The most comprehensive source of business knowledge in the world, Wharton bridges research and practice through its broad engagement with the global business community. The school has more than 4,600 undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, and doctoral students; more than 8,000 annual participants in executive education programs; and an alumni network of more than 82,000 graduates.

About South Asian Journalists Association

The South Asian Journalists Association <http://www.saja.org>, was founded in March 1994 as a networking group for journalists of South Asian origin in New York City. It has grown into a national group of over 800 journalists working for leading newspapers, broadcast networks and new media outlets in various cities in the US and Canada. The organization is best known for its Web-based SAJA Stylebook for Covering South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora (http://www.saja.org/stylebook) -- "Learn to tell your Hindi from Hindu, and much, much more." -- and its annual SAJA Journalism Awards, which recognize outstanding coverage of South Asia and excellence in reporting by South Asian journalists and students in the U.S. and Canada. Each year, more than 700 journalists attend the SAJA National Convention in New York.

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