LA Times, Washington Post win Loeb Awards
The Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and Reuters each won two Gerald Loeb Awards at an award ceremony in New York on Thursday. The Times won in the local reporting category. The coverage was titled “Legal Weed, Broken Promises” and the staffers were Adam Elmahrek, Paige St. John, Robert J. Lopez, Ruben Vives, Marisa Gerber, Kiera Feldman and Brian van der […]
Gershkovich to receive Lovejoy Award for Courage in Journalism
Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter jailed in Russia for nearly 150 days, will receive the 2023 Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for Courage in Journalism from Colby College. Gershkovich, who writes about Russia for The Journal, has been detained in Moscow’s Lefortovo Prison since his arrest in late March. Gershkovich joined the Journal’s Moscow bureau […]
WSJ’s Horwitz and team win NYFWA Impact Award
Jeff Horwitz and a team of Wall Street Journal journalists as the winners of the 2022 Impact Award for Distinguished Financial Journalism from the New York Financial Writers’ Association. Horwitz and a team of journalists from the Journal won for their “Facebook Files” series, which details Facebook’s knowledge of the harmful impact of Instagram on […]
WSJ’s Siconolfi to receive Bell Award
The New York Financial Writers’ Association has selected Michael Siconolfi of The Wall Street Journal as the recipient of the 47th Elliott Bell Award. The award honors journalists who have made a significant contribution to the field of financial journalism and is named after NYFWA’s inaugural president, Elliott V. Bell, a former Business Week editor. […]
SABEW names shortlist for Best in Business Book award
The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing announced the shortlist for its fourth annual Best in Business Book Awards, which recognizes and celebrates outstanding business books published between Aug. 1, 2022, and July 31, 2023. A prestigious panel of judges selected 20 books for this year’s shortlist. Twelve books are from the “business reporting” category, sponsored […]
WSJ reporter Katz wins Sidney Award for tarmac worker coverage
Ben Katz of the Wall Street Journal won the September Sidney Award for “More Workers Are Getting Hurt on the Tarmac,” which exposes how ground workers are being injured as the airline industry roars back to life. A 34-year-old ramp worker and mother of three was sucked into a jet engine; she was instantly killed. OSHA fined her […]
Wired’s McKenna wins Cohn Prize
Maryn McKenna, senior writer at Wired and a widely published journalist and author specializing in public health, global health, and food policy, has been selected to receive the 2023 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting. In selecting McKenna from an extraordinarily competitive field of nominees, the judges hailed her reporting and writing […]
Loeb Award finalists are named
The Gerald Loeb Awards banquet and celebration will be held on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023, at Capitale in New York City, where the winning journalists and outlets for each competition category will be announced. The following Gerald Loeb Award finalists include 29 organizations and more than 175 journalists chosen among 485 entries submitted in all forms of media […]
Adler to receive Loeb distinguished achievement award
The 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Gerald Loeb Awards is Stephen J. Adler, former editor-in-chief of Reuters. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a journalist whose career exemplifies the consistent superior insight and professional skills necessary to further the understanding of business, financial and economic issues. Adler started his career as a reporter covering local and state […]
FT names long list for Business Book of the Year
Books tackling the challenges of artificial intelligence, the race for natural resources, and the rise (and fall) of billionaires make the long list for this year’s Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award. Andrew Hill of the FT writes, “The 2023 award is the first to be run under a new three-year […]
