The
Gerald Loeb Award
The Gerald Loeb Awards, also referred to as the Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, is a recognition of excellence in journalism, especially in the fields of business, finance and the economy. The award was e ...
is given annually for multiple categories of business reporting. The "Local" category was awarded for business, financial, or economic stories centered in a geographic area intended for consumers in that area from a local newspaper, magazine, television station, radio station, or website.
"Local" replaced "
Small & Medium Newspapers" in 2015.
Gerald Loeb Award for Local (2015–present)
* 2015: "Misleading March to the Top" by
Mike Hendricks and
Mará Rose Williams, ''
The Kansas City Star
''The Kansas City Star'' is a newspaper based in Kansas City, Missouri. Published since 1880, the paper is the recipient of eight Pulitzer Prizes.
''The Star'' is most notable for its influence on the career of President Harry S. Truman and a ...
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"UMKC’s misleading march to the top" July 26, 2014
* 2016: “Payday at the Mill,” by
Whit Richardson and
Steve Mistler, ''
Portland Press Herald
The ''Portland Press Herald'' (abbreviated as ''PPH''; Sunday edition ''Maine Sunday Telegram'') is a daily newspaper based in South Portland, Maine, with a statewide readership. The ''Press Herald'' mainly serves southern Maine and is focused ...
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Maine Sunday Telegram
The ''Portland Press Herald'' (abbreviated as ''PPH''; Sunday edition ''Maine Sunday Telegram'') is a daily newspaper based in South Portland, Maine, with a statewide readership. The ''Press Herald'' mainly serves southern Maine and is focused ...
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"Payday at the mill" April 19, 2015
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"Shrewd financiers exploit unsophisticated Maine legislators on taxpayers’ dime" April 26, 2015
* 2017: "Painkiller Profiteers" by
Eric Eyre, ''
Charleston Gazette-Mail
The ''Charleston Gazette-Mail'' is a non-daily morning newspaper in Charleston, West Virginia. It is the product of a July 2015 merger between ''The Charleston Gazette'' and the '' Charleston Daily Mail''. It is one of nine papers owned by HD M ...
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"Drug firms fueled ‘pill mills’ in rural WV" May 23, 2016
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"Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of overdoses" December 18, 2016
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"'Suspicious' drug order rules never enforced by state" December 19, 2016
* 2018: "The Tax Divide" by
Jason Grotto,
Sandhya Kambhampati, and
Hal Dardick, ''
Chicago Tribune
The ''Chicago Tribune'' is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1847, it was formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper", a slogan from which its once integrated WGN (AM), WGN radio and ...
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ProPublica Illinois''
::Articles in Series:
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"An unfair burden" June 10, 2017
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June 10, 2017
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June 10, 2017
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December 7, 2017
* 2019: "Time Bomb" by
Cary Aspinwall,
Allan James Vestal and
Holly K. Hacker,
The Dallas Morning News
''The Dallas Morning News'' is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, with an average print circulation in 2022 of 65,369. It was founded on October 1, 1885, by Alfred Horatio Belo as a satellite publication of the ' ...
::#"Part 1: How Atmos Energy’s natural gas keeps blowing up Texas homes (while customers pay the tab)", September 23, 2018
::#"Part 2: How Texas lets Atmos Energy off the hook", September 23, 2018
* 2020
"Profiting from the Poor"by
Wendi C. Thomas,
Deborah Douglas,
Maya Miller,
Beena Raghavendran, and
Doris Burke
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, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism and
ProPublica
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* 2021
"Deceit, Disrepair and Death Inside a Southern California Rental Empire"by
Aaron Mendelson,
Rina Palta,
Chava Sanchez
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,
Shana Daloria, and
Priska Neely, ''
KPCC Southern California Radio'' and ''
LAist
KPCC ( FM 89.3) – branded LAist 89.3 – is a non-commercial educational radio station licensed in Pasadena, California. KPCC itself is primarily serving Greater Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley; through rebroadcating and translat ...
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* 2022: "How Pennsylvania's Biggest Pension Fund Squandered Billions, Hurt Taxpayers and Triggered an FBI Investigation" by
Craig McCoy,
Joseph DiStefano, and
Angela Couloumbis, ''
The Philadelphia Inquirer
''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', often referred to simply as ''The Inquirer'', is a daily newspaper headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded on June 1, 1829, ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' is the third-longest continuously operating da ...
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Spotlight PA
Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit newsroom dedicated to investigative and public-service journalism for Pennsylvania. The organization was founded in 2019 by the Lenfest Institute for Journalism and a coalition of news or ...
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::Articles:
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"FBI probe of massive Pa. pension fund seeks evidence of kickbacks or bribery" May 16, 2021
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"Internal PSERS documents show how Pa's biggest pension fund got key financial calculation wrong" May 30, 2021
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"Facing FBI probe, PSERS backtracks on disclosure that staffers were on both sides of real estate dealings" June 8, 2021
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"In a revolt, dissidents on PSERS board lobby colleagues to fire the fund’s leaders and set a new investment strategy" June 9, 2021
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"Six of 15 board members of embattled Pa. pension fund officially call for removal of its top command" June 10, 2021
* 2023
"Legal Weed, Broken Promises"by
Adam Elmahrek,
Paige St. John,
Robert J. Lopez,
Ruben Vives,
Marisa Gerber,
Kiera Feldman, and
Brian van der Brug, ''
Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper#Daily, daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. Based in the Greater Los Angeles city of El Segundo, California, El Segundo since 2018, it is the List of new ...
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References
External links
Gerald Loeb Award historical winners list
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American journalism awards
Gerald Loeb Award winners