Loeb Awards Up for Grabs
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Forty reporters and teams from 29 news organizations are vying for nine of business journalism's foremost honors this year.
The 2005 Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism are up for grabs, and finalists from the Phoenix New Times to The Wall Street Journal, from Business 2.0 to Bloomberg News, from the Associated Press to ABC World News Tonight are hoping to take one home.
In its 48 th year, the Loeb awards are given to large, medium and small newspapers, magazines, news services, online media and broadcast stations for in-depth business pieces, commentary, deadline stories and beat writing that make significant contributions to business, financial and economic journalism.
While the Loeb finalists will learn results at an awards dinner on June 27 in New York City, the UCLA Anderson School of Management, which distributes the awards, has already named this year's recipients of its top two awards.
Byron E. “Barney” Calame, the new public editor of The New York Times and a board member of the Reynolds Center at API, will receive the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award, which honors high-quality and consistent work that furthers the understanding of business issues.
In addition, the 2005 Lawrence Minard Editor Award, which recognizes behind-the-scenes editors for their role in excellent business coverage, will go to Timothy K. Smith, assistant managing editor for Fortune.
Calame and Smith will also pick up their awards at the June banquet. The 40 finalist stories were selected from a record-tying 394 entries this year, the same number as last year.
For previous Loeb award winners and finalists, click here.
Diana Henriques, a financial investigative reporter for The New York Times, whose stories on insurance agencies targeting military members for fraudulent schemes has earned her a Loeb finalist spot, will also be speaking at a Reynolds Center at API “Investigative Business Journalism” workshop on June 14 in Cincinnati. For more information or to register, visit this site.
To see how another Loeb finalist, Andrew Ross Sorkin, the mergers and acquisitions reporter at The New York Times, breaks stories on his beat, read this column.