NEW YORK, Feb. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bankrate.com
earned its sixth "Best in Business" national award from the Society
of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) for its special
package, "Financial Regulation, One Year Later." SABEW honored
Bankrate.com in the Feature Category, Digital Division for Large
Websites (more than 2.5 million unique visitors each month).
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The Bankrate.com editorial team is led by editor-in-chief
Julie Bandy and managing editor
Katie Doyle. Senior editor
Steve Pounds oversaw the
award-winning "Financial Regulation, One Year Later" package.
Senior banking reporter Claes Bell,
staff reporter Janna Herron and
freelance contributors Marcie
Geffner and Katherine Lewis
also contributed to the package, which focused on the aftermath of
the landmark Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection
Act. The legislation included more than 400 different rules and
2,300 pages. In its reporting, Bankrate.com covered the reforms
that took place as well as unintended effects, such as increased
consumer bank fees as banks sought to recover lost revenue.
"Our team of editors and reporters did what they do best," Bandy
explained. "They sifted through the regulations to identify the
impact of these reforms on consumers, they extracted the key points
and they made them accessible for the millions of consumers that
rely upon Bankrate.com for clear, unbiased personal finance advice
and information. I'm very proud of Steve, Claes, Janna, Marcie,
Katherine and the whole team."
The SABEW Awards recognize excellence in business and financial
journalism across all news platforms. This year's SABEW Awards will
be presented March 17 in Indianapolis. SABEW received a record-setting
1,030 entries in its 17th Annual "Best in Business" competition.
SABEW, the world's largest organization of business and financial
journalists, is based at Arizona State
University's Walter Cronkite
School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
For a complete list of the 2011 winners, visit:
http://sabew.org/best-in-business/complete-list-of-winners-in-sabew%E2%80%99s-17th-annual-best-in-business-awards/.
For Bankrate's award-winning "Financial Regulation, One Year
Later" package, visit:
http://www.bankrate.com/finance/personal-finance/financial-regulation.aspx.
About Bankrate, Inc.
Bankrate is a leading publisher, aggregator and distributor
of personal finance content on the Internet. Bankrate provides
consumers with proprietary, fully researched, comprehensive,
independent and objective personal finance editorial content across
multiple vertical categories including mortgages, deposits,
insurance, credit cards, and other categories, such as retirement,
automobile loans, and taxes. The Bankrate network includes
Bankrate.com, our flagship website, and other owned and operated
personal finance websites, including CreditCards.com, Interest.com,
Bankaholic.com, Mortgage-calc.com, CreditCardGuide.com, Nationwide
Card Services, InsuranceQuotes.com, CarInsuranceQuotes.com,
InsureMe, Bankrate.com.cn, CreditCards.ca, NetQuote.com, and
CD.com. Bankrate aggregates rate information from over 4,800
institutions on more than 300 financial products. With coverage of
nearly 600 local markets in all 50 U.S. states, Bankrate generates
over 172,000 distinct rate tables capturing on average over three
million pieces of information daily. Bankrate develops and provides
web services to over 80 co-branded websites with online partners,
including some of the most trusted and frequently visited personal
finance sites on the Internet such as Yahoo!, AOL, CNBC and
Bloomberg. In addition, Bankrate licenses editorial content to over
500 newspapers on a daily basis including The Wall Street Journal,
USA Today, The New York Times, The Los
Angeles Times and The Boston Globe.
Media Contact
Ted Rossman
Public Relations Manager
Bankrate, Inc.
ted.rossman@bankrate.com
917-368-8635
SOURCE Bankrate, Inc.