The finalists that were selected from the entries to the Deadline Club’s 2023 Awards Contest in the business journalism categories are listed below.

Winners will be announced at the Club’s annual Awards Dinner on Thursday, May 18, at the Harvard Club.

Business Feature

• Bustle “Last Girlboss Standing” Courtney Rubin, Kat Stoeffel, Charlotte Owen
• Fortune “Private equity is the biggest player in a booming autism-therapy industry. Some therapists say the ‘money grab’ is hurting the quality of care” Erika Fry
• Wired magazine “The Crypto Trap: Inside the Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site” Andy Greenberg

Business Investigative Reporting

• NBC News “The Pentagon knows contractors for overseas bases have engaged extensively in trafficking workers despite ‘zero tolerance.’ The punishment: more contracts.” Andrew Lehren, Molly Boigon, Anna Schecter, Katie McQue, Courtney Kube
• Reuters “Going for Broke” Dan Levine, Mike Spector, Benjamin Lesser, Kristina Cooke, Disha Raychaudhuri
• The Wall Street Journal “Uncontrolled Substances” Rolfe Winkler, Khadeeja Safdar, Andrea Fuller

See all of the finalists here.