Admission to Columbia University’s Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism is already competitive. The Fellowship has been dubbed “the brightest and greatest in business journalism.” These elite journalists, who currently number roughly 500 alumni, must also compete for a yearly award for the best business reporting.
Ten outstanding business journalists get the full scholarship Fellowship each year to attend Columbia University for a full academic year. they were primarily American journalists. There are roughly 10 Fellows from Africa among the 500 total, with the remainder coming from Asia and Latin America.
Since 1992, there has been a Christopher J. Welles Award for outstanding business reporting. When it was started in 1996, it was referred to as the “Best of Knight-Bagehot Award.” In 2010 a new name was given to it in Christopher J. Welles’ honour. From the 1960s to the 1980s, Welles, a former director of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship, was a preeminent business journalist noted for his incisive tales of corporate exploitation, corruption, collapses, and misbehavior.
Dogbevi consistently produces excellent journalism, covering underserved and difficult-to-cover places with scant or no resources. But in a nation where business journalism in the truest meaning of the word doesn’t exist, he has continued to be an astute, brave, and committed journalist.
Since the award’s debut, extraordinary journalists from publications including the New York Times, Seattle Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, The Financial Times, Bloomberg, and AP have graced the list of recipients. However, each of these outstanding journalists is employed by US-based news organizations.
