Veteran Journalist Nina Easton Honored as a 2020 Business News Visionary

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Apr 15, 2020, 08:36 ET

DENVER, April 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Nina Easton, a multi-talented journalist and entrepreneur who serves as co-chair of Fortune's "Most Powerful Women" conferences, has been honored by her peers for her transformative contributions to the profession.

Easton is one of 52 prominent business and financial journalists named a 2020 Business News Visionary. Her oral history and profile are now available at www.NewsLuminaries.com and will be featured in a commemorative book to be published early next year.

2020 Business News Visionary Honoree Nina Easton

Dean Rotbart, editor-in-chief, NewsLuminaries.com

"Unlike many journalists, Nina has never felt confined to a single channel of delivery," noted Dean Rotbart, chair and editor-in-chief of the Business News Visionary Awards.

Easton's career encompasses writing for newspapers, magazines, film scripts, and books. She became a familiar television face as a commentator on primetime and Sunday news shows, and hosted a foreign affairs podcast and live event series at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where she is a senior associate.

Currently, Easton and Pattie Sellers serve as co-founders and co-CEOs of Sellers|Easton Media, an independent agency dedicated to helping shape and cement the legacies of its prominent clients, using a wide variety of narrative services and styles.

Sellers was one of the original organizers of the Most Powerful Women (MPW) programs in 1998. Easton, who joined Fortune in 2006, was subsequently tapped as co-chair of MPW. Both journalists, at the request of Alan Murray, now president and CEO of Fortune, have continued their roles with the magazine's event business.

"Regardless of what medium she works in, the one common denominator that is a hallmark of Nina's career is her talent as a storyteller," Rotbart explained. "Moreover, in this era, when traditional paper-and-ink publications are struggling, Nina's contributions to the Most Powerful Women and the Fortune Global Forum events have amply demonstrated that journalism excellence can be found in both conventional and unconventional outlets."

Other announced recipients of the Business News Visionary Awards (BNVA) include Neil Cavuto and Maria Bartiromo of Fox News, and Henry Dubroff, founder and editor of Pacific Coast Business Times. New honorees are introduced weekly at NewsLuminaries.com.

The Business News Visionary Awards are a continuation of the Business News Luminary Awards, which, in 2000, honored the 100 top business and financial news journalists of the 20th century.

Rotbart, himself a Pulitzer Prize-nominated financial journalist, joined with a panel of more than two dozen distinguished nominating judges – including top business news organization editors, reporters, and past award recipients – to select the 2020 BNVA recipients.

The Business News Visionary and News Luminary Awards are made possible, in part, by the support of Monday Morning Radio, a weekly podcast produced in cooperation with the nonprofit Wizard Academy and its founders, Roy H. and Pennie Williams; and Robert L. Dilenschneider and Joan Avagliano of The Dilenschneider Group, providing an unsurpassed level of communications counsel to global clients.

Additional support is provided by eReleases, delivering personal service and exceptional value to every customer; American Small Business Institute, a nonprofit providing video education for small business owners; Time in a Bottle Photography and its founder, Avital Rotbart, specializing in world-class portrait photography; and All Kids Bike^®, a nonprofit movement to teach every child in America how to ride a bike in kindergarten.

NewsLuminaries.com offers a free weekly newsletter showcasing the 2020 Business News Visionaries as well as other prominent reporters, editors, anchors, and producers. Visit

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Frequent updates on the nation's most influential journalists are also available on Twitter (https://twitter.com/BnlaBnva), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/NewsLuminaries/), and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/NewsLuminaries/).

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SOURCE NewsLuminaries.com