The St. Louis Business Journal won 22 awards in the 2011 Missouri Press Foundation’s Better Newspaper Contest, including a sweep of the top three awards in two categories. This year’s 22 awards are the most the newspaper has won in any of the past six years: five first place, seven second place, eight third place and two honorable mention. Among the five first-place awards were awards to the paper for Best News Content and Best Front-to-Back Newspaper Design.