The Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) have announced the nominees for the first-ever Canadian Best In Business competition, which is a celebration of the best business reporting, published or broadcast in 2014.

"There's no other awards contest like this in Canada," Bryan Borzykowski, chair of SABEW Canada and a member of SABEW's board of governors said. "This is a chance for business journalists to showcase their work and have it judged by their peers."

A total of 26 finalists in nine categories are up for awards, selected from almost a hundred applicants.

Winners will be announced at the Best In Business awards reception on April 15 at Valdez in Toronto. Business journalists who are interested in attending can register online. It will cost $10 for SABEW members and $30 for non-members.

And the nominees are:

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

• Eric Reguly, Report on Business
• James Cowan, Canadian Business
• Jason Kirby, Maclean's

Long-form feature (2,500 words or more)

• Jake MacDonald, "The Cost of Freedom", Report on Business magazine
• Peter Kuitenbrouwer, "Rebirth of Highway H20", Financial Post
• Trevor Cole, "CEO of the Year", Report on Business magazine

• Alistair MacDonald, "The Irvings", Wall Street Journal
• Greg Quinn, "Trappers", Bloomberg
• Michael McCullough, "Yes, You Can Build a Pipeline Here," Canadian Business

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

• Mark Brown, Stefania Di Verdi, Mike Shoss, "Canada's Best Places to Live 2014", MoneySense
• Tavia Grant, "No Safe Use", The Globe and Mail
• Peter Kuitenbrouwer, "Rebirth of Highway H20", Financial Pos

Package or ongoing series

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

Personal finance/Investing

• Julie Cazzin, "Looking After Mom and Dad", MoneySense
• Rob Carrick, personal finance columnist, The Globe and Mail

Profile

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