Capital & Main has won five Best in Business Awards from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, one of the nation’s top business journalism contests. The publication was among the small newsrooms that won in multiple categories for its coverage of topics ranging from child farmworkers to climate change and the housing crisis.
The nonprofit news organization, in collaboration with the Los Angeles Times, won for government reporting, large division, for a two-part investigation by Robert J. Lopez, which found that California is failing to protect underage farmworkers who labor in harsh and dangerous conditions to provide Americans with fresh fruit and vegetables. The investigation earned the top award in that category, with the New York Times and Wall Street Journal receiving honorable mentions.
