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2017 Gerald Loeb Award Winners Press Release
UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2017 Gerald Loeb Award Winners
Lifetime Achievement Award Goes to Walt Mossberg, Nicholas Varchaver Receives Lawrence Minard Editor Award
NEW YORK ;(June 28, 2017) - Journalists from across the nation gathered tonight at Capitale for the 60thAnniversary Gerald Loeb Awards banquet where the 2017 winners were revealed. The Gerald Loeb Awards are among the highest honors in journalism, recognizing the work of journalists whose contributions illuminate the world of business, finance and the economy for readers and viewers around the world.
Judy D. Olian, dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management and chairman of the G. and R. Loeb Foundation, welcomed Loeb Awards honorees and their guests. CNBC's Tyler Mathisen, co-anchor of CNBC's Power Lunch, served as master of ceremonies. The ceremony also celebrated Gerald Loeb's ;legacy with historical footage of the Wall Street icon.
The Gerald Loeb Awards include two special awards for career contributions: the Lifetime Achievement Award, which was presented to ;Walt Mossberg, executive editor of The Verge and Editor-at-Large for Recode, and the Lawrence Minard Editor Award, which went to Fortune's assistant managing editor, Nicholas Varchaver. In addition, winners of 12 competition categories were named at the banquet.
The following is a list of the 2017 Loeb Award recipients.
Audio Winner
"Dov Charney's ;American Dream" by Lisa Chow, Kaitlin Roberts, Molly Messick, Bruce Wallace, Luke Malone, ;Simone Polanen, Alex Blumberg, and Alexandra Johnes for Gimlet Media
Beat Reporting Winner
"Big Money, Unlikely Donors" by David Zahniser, Emily Alpert Reyes, Joe Fox, and Len De Groot for Los Angeles Times
Breaking News Winner
"Saudi Aramco: The World's Most Valuable IPO" by Zanny Minton Beddoes, Henry Tricks, Anton La Guardia, Chris Lockwood, Edward McBride, and Nick Pelham for The Economist
Commentary Winner
"Creative Destruction: The Schumpeter Column" by Adrian Wooldridg for The Economist
Explanatory Winner
"Superbug Spreaders" by Natalie Obiko Pearson, Sharang Limaye, Jason Gale, Lydia Mulvany, Monte Reel, Stephanie Baker, Wenxin Fan, and Adi Narayan for Bloomberg News
Feature Winner
"Hot Mess: How Goldman Lost Libya's Money" by Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel for Bloomberg Businessweek
Images/Graphics/Interactives Winner
"Business Visuals" by Larry Buchanan, Karen Yourish, Walt Bogdanich, Jacqueline Williams,;Ana Graciela Mendez, Motoko Rich, Amanda Cox, Matthew Bloch, Quoctrung Bui, Matt A.V. Chaban, Jeremy White, and Nicholas Casey for The New York Times
International Winner
"Venezuela Undone" by Hannah Dreier and Ricardo Nunes for The Associated Press
Investigative Winners (tie)
"Dangerous Doses" by Sam Roe, Karisa King, and Ray Long for Chicago Tribune
"Allegiant Air" by William R. Levesque, Nathaniel Lash, and Anthony Cormier for Tampa Bay Times
Local Winner
"Painkiller Profiteers" by Eric Eyre for Charleston Gazette-Mail
Personal Finance Winner
"The High Cost of Coping" by Taylor Tepper and Elizabeth O'Brien for MONEY Magazine
Video Winner
"Cosecha de Miseria (Harvest of Misery) & The Source" by Greg Gilderman, Marisa Venegas, Neil Katz, Solly Granatstein, Shawn Efran, Marcus Stern, Brandon Kieffer, John Carlos Frey, Monica Villamizar, and Manuel Iglesias Perez for Telemundo Network and Weather.com/The Weather Channel
Experience the 60th Anniversary Gerald Loeb Awards banquet and celebration by searching #LoebAwards on Twitter and Instagram.The board of trustees of the G. and R. Loeb Foundation and UCLA Anderson wish to thank all those who contributed to the success of the 2017 Loeb Awards. Platinum Sponsors: Bloomberg, Reuters, The New York Times Gold Sponsor: Prudential Silver Sponsors: Brunswick, Forbes, Fortune, Norman Pearlstine, Recode, The Verge, Vox Media, The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! Bronze Sponsors: Los Angeles Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, The Weather Channel, MUFG. For more information about the Loeb Awards, please visit the Loeb Awards website at http://www.loeb.anderson.ucla.edu.
About The Gerald Loeb Awards
The Gerald Loeb Awards were established in 1957 by the late ;Gerald Loeb, a founding partner of E.F. Hutton. His intention was to encourage reporting on business and finance that would inform and protect the private investor and the general public. Distinguished journalists and outlets nationwide submit entries to compete for the most prestigious honor in business journalism. UCLA Anderson has been presenting The Gerald Loeb Awards since 1973 and the awards use a two-tier judging process comprising a preliminary round and final round. The awards banquet and celebration is held in New York City every June and is attended by the country's top business and financial publishers, editors, journalists, producers and celebrities. The Gerald Loeb Awards is a 501(3)(c) nonprofit organization that operates primarily from sponsorship and private support. Follow The Gerald Loeb Awards on Twitter @LoebAwards.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management is among the leading business schools in the world, with faculty members globally renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Located in Los Angeles, gateway to the growing economies of Latin America and Asia and a city that personifies innovation in a diverse range of endeavors, UCLA Anderson's MBA, Fully-Employed MBA, Executive MBA, Global Executive MBA for Asia Pacific, Master of Financial Engineering, Master of Science in Business Analytics, doctoral and executive education programs embody the school's Think In The Next ethos. Annually, some 1,800 students are trained to be global leaders seeking the business models and community solutions of tomorrow. Follow UCLA Anderson on Twitter or on Facebook
2017 Finalists, Career Achievement Honorees and Date of Awards Banquet in New York City Press Release
2017 Gerald Loeb Award Finalists, Career Achievement Honorees and Date of Awards Banquet in New York City Announced by UCLA Anderson
Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Walt Mossberg of The Verge and Recode
Nicholas Varchaver of Fortune to receive Lawrence Minard Editor Award
60th Anniversary banquet and celebration to be held on June 27 in New York City
LOS ANGELES (May 18, 2017) - Judy D. Olian, chairman of the G. and R. Loeb Foundation Inc. and dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management, has announced the finalists of the 60th Anniversary Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. She also revealed the recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lawrence Minard Editor Award.
The 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient is Walt Mossberg, executive editor at The Verge and Editor-at-Large for Recode. This annual award recognizes an individual whose career exemplifies the consistent, superior insight and professional skills necessary to further the understanding of business, financial and economic issues.
Nicholas Varchaver, assistant managing editor at Fortune, will receive the 2017 Lawrence Minard Editor Award, named in memory of Laury Minard, founding editor of Forbes Global and a former final judge for the Loeb Awards. This award honors excellence in business, financial and economic journalism editing, and recognizes an editor whose work does not receive a byline or whose face does not appear on-air for the work covered.
Mossberg and Varchaver will receive their career achievement awards at the 60th Anniversary Gerald Loeb Awards banquet and celebration on Tuesday, June 27, 2017, at Capitale in New York City. The 2017 winners in the 12 competition categories, which represent the nation's highest honors in business journalism, will also be announced during the banquet.
The banquet and celebration will also commemorate Gerald Loeb's 1957 creation of the awards and recognize his legacy to encourage journalism on business and finance that informs and protects the private investor and the general public. Gerald Loeb was a founding partner of E.F. Hutton, a guest columnists for Forbes Magazine and widely considered a Wall Street iconoclast.
This year's show will be hosted by Tyler Mathisen, co-anchor of CNBC's Power Lunch, with additional presenters, from television news, announced in the coming weeks. This event is attended by the country's most influential journalists, editors, publishers, producers, media personalities and celebrities. The official invitation for the 60th Anniversary Gerald Loeb Awards - with ticket, table, sponsorship and advertising information - can be viewed at http://www.theloebawards.com.
The following 2017 #LoebAwards finalists were chosen from more than 480 entries submitted by local, regional and national outlets:
Audio Category Finalists
- Lisa Chow, Kaitlin Roberts, Molly Messick, Bruce Wallace, Luke Malone, Simone Polanen, Alex Blumberg, and Alexandra Johnes for "Dov Charney's American Dream" - Gimlet Media
- Krissy Clark, Caitlin Esch, Gina Delvac, and Nancy Farghalli for "The Uncertain Hour" - Marketplace
- Chris Arnold, Robert Smith, Uri Berliner, Neal Carruth, Alex Goldmark, Elizabeth Kulas, and Bryant Urstadt for "Wells Fargo Hurts Whistleblowers - NPR Investigation Sparks Senate Inquiry" - NPR
- Ilya Marritz, John Reitmeyer, Susan Berfield, Charles Herman, and Cayce Means for "Mall Madness" - WNYC Radio
Beat Reporting Category Finalists
- David Zahniser, Emily Alpert Reyes, Joe Fox, and Len De Groot for "Big Money, Unlikely Donors" - Los Angeles Times
- Natalie Kitroeff for "Natalie Kitroeff" - Los Angeles Times
- Lawrence Delevingne and Nate Raymond for "Platinum Partners Coverage" - Reuters
- Jennifer Hiller for "Mood Turns Black As Oil As Boom Turns Bust" - San Antonio Express-News
- Jonathan O'Connell for "Jonathan O'Connell" - The Washington Post
- Chico Harlan for "The Economics of Immigration" - The Washington Post
Breaking News Category Finalists
- John Peet, Jeremy Cliffe, and Tom Wainwright for "Brexit: A Tragic Split" - The Economist
- Zanny Minton Beddoes, Henry Tricks, Anton La Guardia, Chris Lockwood, and Edward McBride for "Saudi Aramco: The World's Most Valuable IPO" - The Economist
- Ryan Mac and Matt Drange for "Gawker Breaking News" - Forbes
- Joseph Menn for "Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails for U.S. Intelligence" - Reuters
- Mike Bird, Georgi Kantchev, Jenny Gross, Jason Douglas, and the staff of The Wall Street Journal for "WSJ Covers Brexit" - The Wall Street Journal
Commentary Category Finalists
- Matt Levine for "Matt Levine" - Bloomberg News
- Shirley Leung for "A Series of Columns by Shirley Leung" - The Boston Globe
- Adrian Wooldridge for "Creative Destruction: The Schumpeter Column" - The Economist
- Matt O'Brien for "Global Divides" - The Washington Post
Explanatory Category Finalists
- Natalie Obiko Pearson, Sharang Limaye, Jason Gale, Lydia Mulvany, Monte Reel, Stephanie Baker, Wenxin Fan, and Adi Narayan for "Superbug Spreaders" - Bloomberg News
- Robert Smith, Stacey Vanek Smith, Jacob Goldstein, David Kestenbaum, Alex Goldmark, Jess Jiang, Noel King, Nick Fountain, and Bryant Urstadt for "Planet Money Buys Oil" - NPR's Planet Money
- Renee Dudley, Steve Stecklow, Alexandra Harney, Irene Jay Liu, and Reuters team for "Cheat Sheet" - Reuters
- Jonathan O'Connell, Kathy Orton, Jim Tankersley, Emily Badger, Ted Mellnik, Darla Cameron, Denise Lu, and Cat Downs for "America's Housing Divide" - The Washington Post
- Todd C. Frankel, Peter Whoriskey, Jorge Ribas, and Michael Robinson Chavez for "Mobile Power - Human Toll" - The Washington Post
Feature Category Finalists
- Alana Semuels and Rebecca J. Rosen for "Alana Semuels on Who's Making It-and Who's Not Making It-in America" - The Atlantic
- Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel for "Hot Mess: How Goldman Lost Libya's Money" - Bloomberg Businessweek
- Oliver Morton, James Fransham, Patrick Foulis, and Adrian Wooldridge for "America's Competition Problem" - The Economist
- Erika Fry for "Hot Mess" - Fortune
Images/Graphics/Interactives Category Finalists
- David Ingold and Spencer Soper for "Amazon Doesn't Consider the Race of Its Customers. Should It?" - Bloomberg Businessweek
- Lucy Rohr and Tom Standage for "The Economist on Snapchat" - The Economist
- Tom Burgis, Michael Peel, Pilita Clark, Charlie Bibby, and Kari-Ruth Pedersen for "Great Land Rush" - Financial Times
- Larry Buchanan, Karen Yourish, Walt Bogdanich, Jacqueline Williams, Ana Graciela Mendez, Motoko Rich, Amanda Cox, Matthew Bloch, Quoctrung Bui, Matt A.V. Chaban, Jeremy White, and Nicholas Casey for "Business Visuals" - The New York Times
International Category Finalists
- Hannah Dreier and Ricardo Nunes for "Venezuela Undone" - The Associated Press
- Jordan Robertson, Michael Riley, and Andrew Willis for "How to Hack an Election" - Bloomberg Businessweek
- Peter Waldman, Javier Blas, Grant Smith, and Glen Carey for "Saudi Arabia Economy" - Bloomberg News
- Ana Graciela Mendez, Jacqueline Williams, Walt Bogdanich, Jeremy White, and Larry Buchanan for "The New Panama Canal: A Risky Bet" - The New York Times
Investigative Category Finalists
- Sam Roe, Karisa King, and Ray Long for "Dangerous Doses" - Chicago Tribune
- Harriet Ryan, Lisa Girion, and Scott Glover for "Investigating OxyContin" - Los Angeles Times
- Ryan Gabrielson and Topher Sanders for "Busted" - ProPublica
- William R. Levesque, Nathaniel Lash, and Anthony Cormier for "Allegiant Air" - Tampa Bay Times
- David A. Fahrenthold for "Trump's Charity" - The Washington Post
Local Category Finalists
- Eric Eyre for "Painkiller Profiteers" - Charleston Gazette-Mail
- Michael J. Berens and Patricia Callahan for "Suffering in Secret" - Chicago Tribune
- Karen Bouffard, Joel Kurth, and Walter Middlebrook for "Dirty Instruments at the Detroit Medical Center" - The Detroit News
- Jessica Calefati for "Is an Online School Cashing in on Failure?" - The Mercury News
Personal Finance Category Finalists
- Michael J. Mishak and Ben Wieder for "Drinks, Dinners, Junkets and Jobs: How the Insurance Industry Courts State Commissioners" - The Center for Public Integrity
- Taylor Tepper and Elizabeth O'Brien for "The High Cost of Coping" - MONEY Magazine
- Tara Siegel Bernard and Ron Lieber for "Public Sacrifice" - The New York Times
- Tim McLaughlin for "How the Owners of Fidelity Get Richer at Everyday Investors' Expense" - Reuters
Video Category Finalists
- Anderson Cooper, Andy Court, Sarah Fitzpatrick, and Terry Manning for "60 Minutes: Strike-Through" - CBS News 60 Minutes
- Jim Cramer, Nikhil Deogun, Mitch Weitzner, Wally Griffith, Reid Collins Jr., James Segelstein, Christie Gripenburg, Charlotte Lewis, Patrick Ahearn, Steven T. Banton, Rich Korn, and Allison E. Stedman for "Ground Zero Rising: Freedom vs. Fear" - CNBC
- Greg Gilderman, Marisa Venegas, Solly Granatstein, Shawn Efran, Marcus Stern, Brandon Kieffer, John Carlos Frey, and Monica Villamizar for "Cosecha de Miseria (Harvest of Misery) & The Source" - Telemundo Network and Weather.com
- Adya Beasley, Paul Kiernan, Nadia Sussman, João Pina, Christopher Kaeser, and Jill Kirschenbaum for "Mining Dam Failures Present a Global Danger" - The Wall Street Journal
The Gerald Loeb Awards is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that operates primarily from sponsorship and private support. UCLA Anderson has been the steward of the G. and R. Loeb Foundation Inc. and The Gerald Loeb Awards since 1973. For more information about The Gerald Loeb Awards, please visit http://www.loeb.anderson.ucla.edu, email loeb@anderson.ucla.edu or call (310) 825-4478.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management is among the leading business schools in the world, with faculty members globally renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Located in Los Angeles, gateway to the growing economies of Latin America and Asia and a city that personifies innovation in a diverse range of endeavors, UCLA Anderson's MBA, Fully-Employed MBA, Executive MBA, Global Executive MBA for Asia Pacific, Master of Financial Engineering, Master of Science in Business Analytics, doctoral and executive education programs embody the school's Think In The Next ethos. Annually, some 1,800 students are trained to be global leaders seeking the business models and community solutions of tomorrow. Follow UCLA Anderson on Twitter or on Facebook
2017 Call for Entries & 60th Anniversary Kickoff Press Release
Gerald Loeb Awards Kickoff 60th Anniversary year with call for entries for 2017 Journalism Competitions
February 15 Deadline for Submissions in 12 Business Journalism Categories and Two Career Achievement Honors
LOS ANGELES (January 11, 2017) - UCLA Anderson School of Management and the G. and R. Loeb Foundation invite all journalists and outlets from print, online and broadcast media to submit entries in 12 competition categories and nominations for two career achievement awards for the 60th Anniversary Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism.
The Gerald Loeb Awards is the most prestigious honor in business journalism in the United States and were established in 1957 by the late Gerald Loeb, a founding partner of E.F. Hutton. His intention was to encourage reporting on business and finance that would inform and protect the private investor and the general public.
All competition categories encourage submissions in all journalistic forms (including those produced for mobile distribution) and in any combination of forms - broadcast (video, audio and podcasts), digital/online, print, still photography, graphics, interactives, data visualization, blogs and social media. Detailed descriptions of category changes and submission guidelines for the 2017 competition can be found online at http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/gerald-loeb-awards/2017-competition-categories.
All entries must be submitted online at www.loeb.anderson.ucla.edu no later than Wednesday, February 15, 2017, at 11:59:59 p.m. Consideration is limited to entries that were published or broadcast in the United States during calendar year 2016.
Entries Accepted in 12 Competition Categories:
- Audio: Exemplary spoken-word coverage (including podcasts), story-telling or expository journalism on a contemporary business, financial or economic subject.
- Beat Reporting: Exemplary coverage of a business, financial or economic beat.
- Breaking News: Exemplary coverage of a competitive business, financial or economic news story within seven days of an event, with special attention paid to the first 24 hours.
- Commentary: Including business, financial or economic editorials, columns, syndicated columns, blogs, on-air or video commentary or analysis.
- Commentary: Exemplary in-depth analysis and clear presentation of a complex business, financial or economic subject.
- Feature: Pieces in any medium that explain or enlighten business topics with exemplary craft and style.
- Images/Graphics/Interactives: Recognizes the exemplary use of images, graphics, and interactives (still photography, video, charts, data visualizations, graphics, illustrations, news apps) to tell stories. These visual elements should be essential to the reporting in order to explain, enlighten or educate the reader/viewer/user about contemporary business, financial or economic topics. The images, graphics, or interactives, and any accompanying text, voice track or sound, can appear in any media.
- International: Covering international business, financial or economic stories. Must be English language and published in the US.
- Investigative: For a business, financial or economic story or group of up to five (5) stories in any medium or in a combination of media. Factors the judges will consider include originality, creativity and persistence in gleaning information, storytelling power and impact.
- Local: Recognizes excellence in the coverage of a business, financial or economic story centered in a particular geographic area and offered primarily to consumers in that area. Pieces would be from a local newspaper, magazine, television, radio station or website.
- Personal Finance: Excellence in business, financial or economic journalism that informs and protects the individual investor and consumer. Eligible entrants include journalists and also experts who are determined not to have conflicts of interest or personal agendas related to the submitted material.
- Feature: Pieces in any medium that explain or enlighten business topics with exemplary craft and style.: Exemplary coverage, story-telling and presentation in video (delivered in any form - including mobile and social) of a business, financial or economic story.
Nominations will also be accepted for: (1) the Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognizes exceptional career contributions in the field of business, financial and economic news; and (2) the Lawrence Minard Editor Award, which recognizes career contributions in business journalism editing.
UCLA Anderson has been presenting The Gerald Loeb Awards since 1973 and the awards use a two-tier judging process comprising a preliminary round and final round. The Gerald Loeb Awards is a 501(3)(c) nonprofit organization that operates primarily from sponsorship and private support.
Follow The Gerald Loeb Awards on Twitter: @LoebAwards. Experience The Gerald Loeb Awards by searching: #LoebAwards
The Gerald Loeb Awards Final Judges:
- Stephen J. Adler, Editor-in-Chief, Reuters
- David Boardman, Dean of the School of Media and Communications, Temple University
- David Callaway, Chief Executive Officer, TheStreet
- Kevin Delaney, Editor-in-Chief & Co-Founder, Quartz
- Patrick Foulis, New York Bureau Chef & U.S. Business Editor, The Economist
- Davan Maharaj, Editor & Publisher, Los Angeles Times
- Tyler Mathise, Co-anchor, CNBC's Power Lunch / Vice President for Strategic Editorial Initiatives, CNBC
- Gretchen Morgenson, Assistant Business & Financial Editor, The New York Times
- Alan Murray, Editor, Fortune / Chief Content Officer, Time Inc.
- Matt Murray, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, The Wall Street Journal
- Judy D. Olian, UCLA Anderson School of Management
- Andy Serwer, Editor-in-Chief, Yahoo Finance
- Melanie Sill, Vice President of Content, Southern California Public Radio
- Liz Spayd, Public Editor, The New York Times
- Paul Steiger, Executive Chairman, ProPublica
- Matthew Winkler, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus & Founder, Bloomberg News
About UCLA Anderson School of Management:
UCLA Anderson School of Management is among the leading business schools in the world, with faculty members globally renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Located in Los Angeles, gateway to the growing economies of Latin America and Asia and a city that personifies innovation in a diverse range of endeavors, UCLA Anderson's MBA, Fully-Employed MBA, Executive MBA, Global Executive MBA for Asia Pacific, Master of Financial Engineering, doctoral and executive education programs embody the school's Think In The Next ethos. Annually, some 1,800 students are trained to be global leaders seeking the business models and community solutions of tomorrow. Follow UCLA Anderson on Twitter or on Facebook.
2016 Loeb Awards Winners Press Release
UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2016 Gerald Loeb Award Winners
Lifetime Achievement Award Goes to Paul Ingrassia; and Amy Stevens Receives Lawrence Minard Editor Award
NEW YORK (June 28, 2016) - Journalists from across the nation gathered tonight at Capitale for the 2016 Gerald Loeb Awards banquet. The Gerald Loeb Awards are among the highest honors in journalism, recognizing the work of journalists whose contributions illuminate the world of business, finance and the economy for readers and viewers around the world.
Judy D. Olian, dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management and chairman of the G. and R. Loeb Foundation, welcomed Loeb Awards honorees and their guests. CNBC's Tyler Mathisen, co-anchor of CNBC's Power Lunch, served as master of ceremonies.
The Gerald Loeb Awards include two special awards for career contributions: the Lifetime Achievement Award, which was presented to Paul Ingrassia, managing editor of Reuters, and the Lawrence Minard Editor Award, which went to Amy Stevens, Reuters' executive editor of professional news. In addition, winners of 12 competition categories were named at the banquet.
The following is a list of the 2016 Loeb Award recipients.
Audio Winner
"Your Money and Your Life," by Chris Arnold, Uri Berliner, Neal Carruth, Lori Todd, John Ydstie, Heidi Glenn, Ariel Zambelich, Avie Schneider, Alyson Hurt and Annette Elizabeth Allen, NPR
Beat Reporting Winner
"Testing Theranos," by John Carreyrou, Michael Siconolfi and Christopher Weaver, The Wall Street Journal
Breaking News Winner
"Inside the Dow-DuPont Merger,'" by David Benoit, Jacob Bunge, Dana Cimilluca, Dana Mattioli and Dennis K. Berman, The Wall Street Journal
Commentary Winner
"Inside the Boardroom," by James B. Stewart, The New York Times
Explanatory Winner
"Insult to Injury: America's Vanishing Worker Protections," by Michael Grabell, Howard Berkes and Lena Groeger, ProPublica & NPR
Feature Winner
"The Unraveling of Tom Hayes," by David Enrich, The Wall Street Journal
Images/Graphics/Interactives Winner
"Making Data Visual," by Amanda Cox, Gregor Aisch, Kevin Quealy, Matthew Bloch, Wilson Andrews, Josh Keller, Karen Yourish, Eric Buth, Nicholas Confessore and Sarah Cohen, The New York Times
International Winner
"Malaysia's Missing Millions," by Tom Wright, Bradley Hope, Simon Clark, Mia Lamar, Justin Baer, Tom Di Fonzo and Paolo Bosonin, The Wall Street Journal
Investigative Winner
"Seafood from Slaves," by Margie Mason, Martha Mendoza, Robin McDowell and Esther Htusan, The Associated Press
Local Winners
Payday at the Mill," by Whit Richardson and Steve Mistler, Portland Press Herald & Maine Sunday Telegram
Personal Finance Winner
"Aging's Costliest Challenge," by Donna Rosato, Kate Santichen, Alexandra Mondalek and Shayla Hunter, MONEY Magazine
Video Winner
"Joanna Stern's Videos," by Joanna Stern and Drew Evans, The Wall Street Journal
The board of trustees of the G. and R. Loeb Foundation and UCLA Anderson wish to thank all those who contributed to the success of the 2016 Loeb Awards. Platinum Sponsors: Bloomberg, The New York Times, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal; Gold Sponsors: Prudential; Silver Sponsors: CNN, Fortune, General Motors, Los Angeles Times, Money; Bronze Sponsors: Alibaba Group, Newsday; Video Production: NextWorks; Official Hotel: Hotel on Rivington. For more information about the Loeb Awards, please visit the Loeb Awards website at http://www.loeb.anderson.ucla.edu.
About The Gerald Loeb Awards
The Gerald Loeb Awards were established in 1957 by the late Gerald Loeb, a founding partner of E.F. Hutton. His intention was to encourage reporting on business and finance that would inform and protect the private investor and the general public. Distinguished journalists and outlets nationwide submit entries to compete for the most prestigious honor in business journalism. UCLA Anderson has been presenting The Gerald Loeb Awards since 1973 and the awards use a two-tier judging process comprising a preliminary round and final round. The awards banquet and celebration is held in New York City every June and is attended by the country's top business and financial publishers, editors, journalists, producers and celebrities. The Gerald Loeb Awards is a 501(3)(c) nonprofit organization that operates primarily from sponsorship and private support. Follow The Gerald Loeb Awards on Twitter @LoebAwards. Experience The Gerald Loeb Awards: #LoebAwards.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management is among the leading business schools in the world, with faculty members globally renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Located in Los Angeles, gateway to the growing economies of Latin America and Asia and a city that personifies innovation in a diverse range of endeavors, UCLA Anderson's MBA, Fully Employed MBA, Executive MBA, Global Executive MBA for Asia Pacific, Master of Financial Engineering, doctoral and executive education programs embody the school's Think In The Next ethos. Here some 1,800 students annually are trained to be global leaders seeking the business models and community solutions of tomorrow. Follow UCLA Anderson on Twitter or on Facebook
Gerald Loeb Awards Announces call for entries for 2016 Competition
Gerald Loeb Awards Announces call for entries for 2016 Competition
February 11 Deadline for Submissions in 12 Competition Categories and Two Career Achievement Honors
Los Angeles (January 6, 2016) - UCLA Anderson School of Management and the G. and R. Loeb Foundation invite all journalists and outlets from print, online and broadcast media to submit entries in 12 competition categories and nominations for two career achievement awards for the 2016 Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism.
The Gerald Loeb Awards are the most prestigious honor in business journalism nationwide and were established in 1957 by the late Gerald Loeb, founding partner of E.F. Hutton, to recognize writers, editors and producers who make significant contributions to the understanding of business, finance and the economy for both the private investor and the general public. UCLA Anderson has been presenting the awards since 1973.
This year, the Video/Audio category has been split into two separate categories and the Images/Visuals category has been replaced with the Images/Graphics/Interactives category to reflect the evolution of digital journalism. All competition categories encourage submissions in all journalistic forms and in any combination of forms - broadcast (video, audio and podcasts), digital/online, print, still photography, graphics, interactives, data visualization, and social media. Detailed descriptions of category changes and submission guidelines for the 2016 competition can be found online at http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/gerald-loeb-awards/2016-categories.
All entries must be submitted online at www.loeb.anderson.ucla.edu no later than Thursday, February 11, 2016, at 11:59:59 p.m. Consideration is limited to entries that were published or broadcast in the United States during calendar year 2015.
Entries Accepted in 12 Competition Categories:
- Audio: Exemplary spoken-word coverage (including podcasts), story-telling or expository journalism on a contemporary business, financial or economic subject.
- Beat Reporting: Exemplary coverage of a business, financial or economic beat.
- Breaking News: Exemplary coverage of a competitive business, financial or economic news story within seven days of an event, with special attention paid to the first 24 hours.
- Commentary: Including business, financial or economic editorials, columns, syndicated columns, blogs, on-air or video commentary or analysis.
- Commentary: Exemplary in-depth analysis and clear presentation of a complex business, financial or economic subject.
- Feature: Pieces in any medium that explain or enlighten business topics with exemplary craft and style.
- Images/Graphics/Interactives: Recognizes the exemplary use of images, graphics, and interactives (still photography, video, charts, data visualizations, graphics, illustrations, news apps) to tell stories. These visual elements should be essential to the reporting in order to explain, enlighten or educate the reader/viewer/user about contemporary business, financial or economic topics. The images, graphics, or interactives, and any accompanying text, voice track or sound, can appear in any media.
- International: Covering international business, financial or economic stories. Must be English language and published in the US.
- Investigative: For a business, financial or economic story or group of up to five (5) stories in any medium or in a combination of media. Factors the judges will consider include originality, creativity and persistence in gleaning information, storytelling power and impact.
- Local: Recognizes excellence in the coverage of a business, financial or economic story centered in a particular geographic area and offered primarily to consumers in that area. Pieces would be from a local newspaper, magazine, television, radio station or website.
- Personal Finance: Excellence in business, financial or economic journalism that informs and protects the individual investor and consumer. Eligible entrants include journalists and also experts who are determined not to have conflicts of interest or personal agendas related to the submitted material.
- Feature: Pieces in any medium that explain or enlighten business topics with exemplary craft and style.: Exemplary coverage, story-telling and presentation in video (delivered in any form - including mobile and social) of a business, financial or economic story.
Nominations will also be accepted for: (1) the Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognizes exceptional career contributions in the field of business, financial and economic news; and (2) the Lawrence Minard Editor Award, which recognizes career contributions in business journalism editing.
The Gerald Loeb Awards Final Judges:
- Stephen J. Adler, Editor-in-Chief, Reuters
- David Boardman, Dean of the School of Media and Communications, Temple University
- Kevin Delaney, Editor-in-Chief, Quartz
- Patrick Foulis, U.S. Buiness Editor & New York Bureau Chief, The Economist
- Larry Kramer, Director, Gannett Co., Inc
- Joanne Lipman, Adviser, Yahoo! Media / Executive Producer, NYPR
- Davan Maharaj, Editor, Los Angeles Times
- Tyler Mathisen, Co-anchor, CNBC's Power Lunch / Vice President for Strategic Editorial Initiatives, CNBC
- Alan Murray, Editor, Fortune
- Matt Murray, Deputy Managing Editor, International News and Money & Investing, The Wall Street Journal
- Judy D. Olian, Dean, UCLA Anderson School of Management
- Andy Serwer, Editor-in-Chief, Yahoo Finance
- Melanie Sill, Vice President of Content, Southern California Public Radio
- Liz Spayd, Editor-in-Chief, Columbia Journalism Review
- Paul Steiger, Executive Chairman, ProPublica
- Matthew Winkler, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus and Founder, Bloomberg News
About The Gerald Loeb Awards
The Gerald Loeb Awards were established in 1957 by the late Gerald Loeb, a founding partner of E.F. Hutton. His intention was to encourage reporting on business and finance that would inform and protect the private investor and the general public. Distinguished journalists and outlets nationwide submit entries to compete for the most prestigious honor in business journalism. UCLA Anderson has been presenting The Gerald Loeb Awards since 1973 and the awards use a two-tier judging process comprising a preliminary round and final round. The awards banquet and celebration is held in New York City every June and is attended by the country's top business and financial publishers, editors, journalists, producers and celebrities. The Gerald Loeb Awards is a 501(3)(c) nonprofit organization that operates primarily from sponsorship and private support. Follow The Gerald Loeb Awards on Twitter @LoebAwards. Experience The Gerald Loeb Awards: #LoebAwards
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2015 Loeb Award Winners Press Release
UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2015 Gerald Loeb Award Winners
Lifetime Achievement Award Goes to James Grant, Rebecca Blumenstein Receives Lawrence Minard Editor Award
New York (June 24, 2015) - Journalists from across the nation gathered tonight at Capitale for the 2015 Gerald Loeb Awards banquet. The Gerald Loeb Awards are among the highest honors in journalism, recognizing the work of journalists whose contributions illuminate the world of business, finance and the economy for readers and viewers around the world.
Judy D. Olian, dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management and chairman of the G. and R. Loeb Foundation, welcomed Loeb Awards honorees and their guests. CNBC's Mandy Drury, co-anchor of CNBC's Power Lunch, served as master of ceremonies.
The Gerald Loeb Awards include two special awards for career contributions: the Lifetime Achievement Award, which was presented to James Grant, founder and editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, and the Lawrence Minard Editor Award, which went to Rebecca Blumenstein, deputy editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal. In addition, winners of 11 competition categories were named at the banquet.
The following is a list of the 2015 Loeb Award recipients.
Beat Reporting Winner
“Lobbying in America,” by Eric Lipton, Ben Protess, Nicholas Confessore and Brooke Williams, The New York Times
Breaking News Winner
“Abdication of the ‘Bond King,’” by Gregory Zuckerman and Kirsten Grind, The Wall Street Journal
Commentary Winner
“Wall Street Accountability,” by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica
Explanatory Winner
“Borrowing Trouble,” by Jason Grotto and Heather Gillers, Chicago Tribune
Feature Winner
“California Goes Nuts,” by Tom Philpott and Matt Black, Mother Jones
Images/Visuals Winner
“Economic Tools & Visualizations,” by Gregor Aisch, Wilson Andrews, Jeremy Ashkenas, Matthew Bloch, Mike Bostock, Shan Carter, Haeyoun Park, Alicia Parlapiano and Archie Tse, The New York Times
International Winner
“Product of Mexico,” by Richard Marosi and Don Bartletti, Los Angeles Times
Investigative Winner
“Medicare Unmasked,” by Christopher S. Stewart, Christopher Weaver, John Carreyrou, Rob Barry, Anna Wilde Mathews and Tom McGinty, The Wall Street Journal
Local Winners
“Misleading March to the Top,” by Mike Hendricks and Mará Rose Williams, The Kansas City Star
“Unchecked Care,” by Chris Serres and Glenn Howatt, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Personal Finance Winner
“Helping Retirees Navigate Pension Cuts in Detroit’s Bankruptcy,” by Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press
Video/Audio Winner
“Inside Sysco: Exposing North America’s Food Sheds,” by Vicky Nguyen, Kevin Nious, Jeremy Carroll, Felipe Escamilla, David Paredes, Julie Putnam and Mark Villarreal, KNTV
The board of trustees of the G. and R. Loeb Foundation and UCLA Anderson wish to thank all those who contributed to the success of the 2015 Loeb Awards. Platinum Sponsors: Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal; Gold Sponsors: JPMorgan Chase and Reuters; Silver Sponsors: ABC News, Arbiter Partners, Financial Times, Fortune, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, Seth Klarman, Kynikos Associates LP, Los Angeles Times, USA Today; Bronze Sponsors: CNN, The Street and Yahoo! Finance; Loeb Associates: Burson-Marsteller, International Business Times and Prudential. For more information about the Loeb Awards, please visit the Loeb Awards website at http://www.loeb.anderson.ucla.edu.
About The Gerald Loeb Awards
The Gerald Loeb Awards were established in 1957 by the late Gerald Loeb, a founding partner of E.F. Hutton. His intention was to encourage reporting on business and finance that would inform and protect the private investor and the general public. Distinguished journalists and outlets nationwide submit entries to compete for the most prestigious honor in business journalism. UCLA Anderson has been presenting The Gerald Loeb Awards since 1973 and the awards use a two-tier judging process comprising a preliminary round and final round. The awards banquet and celebration is held in New York City every June and is attended by the country's top business and financial publishers, editors, journalists, producers and celebrities. The Gerald Loeb Awards is a 501(3)(c) nonprofit organization that operates primarily from sponsorship and private support. Follow The Gerald Loeb Awards on Twitter @LoebAwards. Hashtag: #LoebAwards
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management is among the leading business schools in the world, with faculty members globally renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Located in Los Angeles, gateway to the growing economies of Latin America and Asia and a city that personifies innovation in a diverse range of endeavors, UCLA Anderson's MBA, Fully-Employed MBA, Executive MBA, Global Executive MBA for Asia Pacific, Global Executive MBA for the Americas, Master of Financial Engineering, doctoral and executive education programs embody the school's Think In The Next ethos. Annually, some 1,800 students are trained to be global leaders seeking the business models and community solutions of tomorrow.
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2015 Gerald Loeb Award Finalists Announced by UCLA Anderson School of Management
2015 Gerald Loeb Award Finalists Announced by UCLA Anderson School of Management
Lifetime Achievement Award goes to James Grant of Grant's Interest Rate Observer;
Rebecca Blumenstein of The Wall Street Journal to receive Lawrence Minard Editor Award
Los Angeles, CA - May 14, 2015 - Judy D. Olian, chairman of the G. and R. Loeb Foundation Inc. and dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management, today announced the finalists of the 2015 Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. She also announced the recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lawrence Minard Editor Award.
The 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient is James Grant, founder and editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer. This annual award recognizes an individual whose career exemplifies the consistent and superior insight and professional skills necessary to further the understanding of business, financial and economic issues.
Rebecca Blumenstein, deputy editor-in-chief at The Wall Street Journal, will receive the 2015 Lawrence Minard Editor Award, named in memory of Laury Minard, founding editor of Forbes Global and a former final judge for the Loeb Awards. This award honors excellence in business, financial and economic journalism editing, and recognizes an editor whose work does not receive a byline or whose face does not appear on-air for the work covered.
Grant and Blumenstein will receive their career achievement awards at the 2015 Gerald Loeb Awards banquet and celebration on Tuesday, June 23, 2015, at Capitale in New York City. Winners in the 11 competition categories will also be announced during the banquet.
The banquet and celebration is attended by the most influential journalists, publishers and producers in the nation. The official invitation, with ticket, table, sponsorship and advertising information can be viewed at http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/loebawards2015.
The following #LoebAwards finalists were chosen from more than 480 entries submitted by local, regional and national outlets:
Beat Reporting Category Finalists
- Zachary R. Mider for "Tax Runaways" - Bloomberg News
- Michael Brick for "Michael Brick, Texas Energy" - Houston Chronicle
- David Sirota for "Public Money, Private Profits" - International Business Times
- Eric Lipton, Ben Protess, Nicholas Confessore and Brooke Williams for "Lobbying in America" - The New York Times
Breaking News Category Finalists
- Aaron Kirchfield, Matthew Campbell, Jeffrey McCracken, Vidya Root, Helene Fouquet and Francois de Beaupuy for "GE vs. France" - Bloomberg News
- Matthew Garrahan and Tim Bradshaw for "Apple Beats" - The Financial Times
- Melody Petersen, Ralph Vartabedian, W.J. Hennigan, Christine Mai-Duc, Ruben Vives and Shan Li for "Virgin Galactic Crash" - Los Angeles Times
- Dominic Gates, Rami Grunbaum and Jim Brunner for "SeaTimes Breaking News: Boeing Machinist Contract Vote Showdown" - The Seattle Times
- Gregory Zuckerman and Kirsten Grind for "Abdication of the 'Bond King'" - The Wall Street Journal
Commentary Category Finalists
- Shirley Leung for "Shirley Leung Columns" - The Boston Globe
- Michael Hiltzik for "Michael Hiltzik, Business Columnist" - Los Angeles Times
- Jesse Eisinger for "Wall Street Accountability" - ProPublica
- Matt O'Brien for "Global Inequality" - The Washington Post
Explanatory Category Finalists
- Matt Drange, Susanne Rust, Michael I. Schiller and The Guardian US Interactives Team for "Toxic Trail" - The Center for Investigative Reporting
- Jason Grotto and Heather Gillers for "Borrowing Trouble" - Chicago Tribune
- Lisa Song, David Hasemyer, Zahra Hirji, Paul Horn, Jim Morris, Jamie Smith Hopkins, Ben Wieder, Alan Suderman, Greg Gilderman, Neil Katz and Katie Wiggin for "Big Oil, Bad Air" - InsideClimate News, The Center for Public Integrity and The Weather Channel
- Krissy Clark, Noel King, Caitlin Esch and Lindsay Thomas for "York & Fig" - Marketplace
- Peter Whoriskey and Dan Keating for "The Business of Dying" - The Washington Post
Feature Category Finalists
- David Voreacos and Jeff Plungis for "Death on the Highway" - Bloomberg News
- Peter Elkind for "Inside Elon Musk's $1.4 Billion Score" - Fortune
- Jennifer Reingold for "How to Fail in Business While Really, Really Trying" - Fortune
- Tom Philpott and Matt Black for "California Goes Nuts" - Mother Jones
Images/Visuals Category Finalists
- Matt Smith, Jennifer Gollan and Michael I. Schiller for "Techsploitation" - The Center for Investigative Reporting
- Chris Zubak-Skees for "2014 Interactive Graphics" - The Center for Public Integrity
- Gregor Aisch, Wilson Andrews, Jeremy Ashkenas, Matthew Bloch, Mike Bostock, Shan Carter, Haeyoun Park, Alicia Parlapiano and Archie Tse for "Economic Tools & Visualizations" - The New York Times
- Paul Antonson, Andrew Beaton, Martin Burch, Chris Canipe, Drew Evans, Madeline Farbman, Marc LaJoie, Jonathan Keegan, Roger Kenny, Steven Kutz, Nick Shearman, Mike Sudal, Adam Suharja, Stuart Thompson, Christopher Weaver and Kurt Wilberding for "The Wall Street Journal: Interactive Graphics" - The Wall Street Journal
International Category Finalists
- Rakteem Katakey, Rajesh Kumar Singh and Tom Lasseter for "The Bleakest Side of India's Modernization" - Bloomberg L.P.
- Lynn Hicks and Rodney White for "Feeding China" - Des Moines Register
- Richard Marosi and Don Bartletti for "Product of Mexico" - Los Angeles Times
- T. Christian Miller, Jonathan Jones, Marcela Gaviria, Will Cohen and Ashley Gilbertson for "Firestone and the Warlord" - ProPublica and PBS FRONTLINE
Investigative Category Finalists
- Daniel Wagner and Eleanor Bell for "Profiting from Prisoners" - The Center for Public Integrity
- John Fauber, Elbert Chu and Coulter Jones for "Drug Approvals Investigation" - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today
- Hilary Stout, Danielle Ivory, Rebecca R. Ruiz, Hiroko Tabuchi, Bill Vlasic, Matthew L. Wald, Rachel Abrams, Poh Si Teng, Wilson Andrews and Gregor Aisch for "Fatal Flaws in Auto Safety" - The New York Times
- Christopher S. Stewart, Christopher Weaver, John Carreyrou, Rob Barry, Anna Wilde Mathews and Tom McGinty for "Medicare Unmasked" - The Wall Street Journal
Local Category Finalists
- Mike Hendricks and Mará Rose Williams for "Misleading March to the Top" - The Kansas City Star
- John Diedrich, Bill Schulz and Gary D'Amato for "Death in the Ring" - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Chris Serres and Glenn Howatt for "Unchecked Care" - Minneapolis Star Tribune
- Ivan Penn for "Duke Energy" - Tampa Bay Times
Personal Finance Category Finalists
- Alison Fitzgerald and Jared Bennett for "Florida's Foreclosure Crisis" - The Center for Public Integrity
- Susan Tompor for "Helping Retirees Navigate Pension Cuts in Detroit's Bankruptcy" - Detroit Free Press
- Ann Marsh, Scott Wenger and Kamrhan Farwell for "Could Financial Planning Help Stem the Rate of Military Suicides?" - Financial Planning
- Jean Eaglesham and Rob Barry for "Tracking Troubled Brokers" - The Wall Street Journal
Video/Audio Category Finalists
- Cindy Galli, Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz, Angela Hill and Lee Ferran for "ABC News Brian Ross Investigates: Deadly Impact" - ABC News
- Vicky Nguyen, Kevin Nious, Jeremy Carroll, Felipe Escamilla, David Paredes, Julie Putnam and Mark Villarreal for "Inside Sysco: Exposing North America's Food Sheds" - KNTV
- Chris Arnold, Paul Kiel, Neal Carruth, Uri Berliner and Tracy Weber for "The Unseen Toll of Wage Garnishment" - NPR and ProPublica
- Jason Bellini for "The Short Answer: MH370" - The Wall Street Journal
For more information about The Gerald Loeb Awards, please visit http://www.loeb.anderson.ucla.edu, email loeb@anderson.ucla.edu or call (310) 825-4478.
About The Gerald Loeb Awards
The Gerald Loeb Awards were established in 1957 by the late Gerald Loeb, a founding partner of E.F. Hutton. His intention was to encourage reporting on business and finance that would inform and protect the private investor and the general public. Distinguished journalists and outlets nationwide submit entries to compete for the most prestigious honor in business journalism. UCLA Anderson has been presenting The Gerald Loeb Awards since 1973 and the awards use a two-tier judging process comprising a preliminary round and final round. The awards banquet and celebration is held in New York City every June and is attended by the country's top business and financial publishers, editors, journalists, producers and celebrities. The Gerald Loeb Awards is a 501(3)(c) nonprofit organization that operates primarily from sponsorship and private support. Follow The Gerald Loeb Awards on Twitter @LoebAwards and on Vine at http://www.vine.co/LoebAwards. Hashtag: #LoebAwards
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management is among the leading business schools in the world, with faculty members globally renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Located in Los Angeles, gateway to the growing economies of Latin America and Asia and a city that personifies innovation in a diverse range of endeavors, UCLA Anderson's MBA, Fully-Employed MBA, Executive MBA, Global Executive MBA for Asia Pacific, Global Executive MBA for the Americas, Master of Financial Engineering, and doctoral and executive education programs embody the school's Think In The Next ethos. Annually, some 1,800 students are trained to be global leaders seeking the business models and community solutions of tomorrow. Follow UCLA Anderson on Twitter at http://twitter.com/UCLAAnderson or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/uclaanderson.