Michael Riley, left, and Ashlee Vance
AWARD DATE: 2012
AWARD NAME: The Morton Frank Award
AWARD RECIPIENT: Michael Riley, Ashlee Vance with Zoe Schneeweiss
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: Bloomberg Businessweek
AWARD HONORED WORK: “It’s Not Paranoia If They’re Stealing Your Secrets: Inside the Chinese Boom in Corporate Espionage”
This timely, well-written account shows how the unprecedented scale of Chinese corporate espionage and wholesale intellectual property theft is devastating U.S. companies. This strongly sourced story details the plight of American Superconductor Corp. which discovered that Sinovel, a Chinese wind turbine manufacturer that was once its biggest customer, schemed to steal and illegally replicate AMSC’s software and electronic systems to power more than 1,000 Chinese windmills.
Citation for Excellence:
Brett Forrest
Bloomberg Businessweek
Empire at the End of the Earth