The winners of SABEW Canada’s first-ever Best in Business awards have been announced. Nine winners were chosen out of 26 finalists to represent the best business reporting, published or broadcast in 2014.

And the winners are:

Beat reporting
Marina Strauss, Retail, The Globe and Mail
Claudia Cattaneo, Energy, Financial Post
Doug Alexander, Banking, Bloomberg

Commentary
Eric Reguly, Report on Business
James Cowan, Canadian Business
Jason Kirby, Maclean’s

Long-form feature (2,500 words or more)
Trevor Cole, “CEO of the Year”, Report on Business magazine
Jake MacDonald, “The Cost of Freedom”, Report on Business magazine
Peter Kuitenbrouwer, “Rebirth of Highway H20″, Financial Post

Short-form feature (2,500 words or less)
Alistair MacDonald, “The Irvings”, Wall Street Journal
Greg Quinn, “Trappers”, Bloomberg
Michael McCullough, “Yes, You Can Build a Pipeline Here,” Canadian Business

Investigative
Grant Robertson, “The Pot Stock Problem”, The Globe and Mail
Bruce Livesey, “Where our Clothes Come From”, Report on Business magazine
Stephanie Nolen, “High and Dry”, Report on Business magazine

Multimedia
Tavia Grant, Louie Palu, Pawel Dwulit, Christopher Manza, Laura Blenkinsop, Ted Mumford, “No Safe Use”, The Globe and Mail
Mark Brown, Stefania Di Verdi, Mike Shoss, “Canada’s Best Places to Live 2014″, MoneySense
Andrew Barr, Mike Faille, April Fong, Angela Hickman, Peter Kuitenbrouwer, Kevin Libin, Laura Pedersen, John Richardson, Jonathon Rivait, Gigi Suhanic, Erin Valois, Jeff Wasserman, “Rebirth of Highway H20″, Financial Post

Package or ongoing series
Edward Greenspon, David Scanlan, Andrew Mayeda, Rebecca Penty, Theophilos Argitis, Jeremy van Loon and Hugo Miller, Energy Super Power, Bloomberg News
Chester Dawson and Amy Harder, Selling Canada’s Crude, Wall Street Journal
Sunny Freeman, Zi-Ann Lum and Daniel Tencer, Working Poor, Huffington Post Canada

Personal finance/Investing
Rob Carrick, personal finance columnist, The Globe and Mail
Julie Cazzin, “Looking After Mom and Dad”, MoneySense

Profile
Alistair MacDonald, “The Irvings”, Wall Street Journal
Carol Toller, “Lessons From a Brain Damaged CEO”, Canadian Business
Trevor Cole, “CEO of the Year”, Report on Business magazine