UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2011 Gerald Loeb Award Winners

Journalists from across the nation gathered on June 28, 2011, at Capitale in New York City for the 2011 Gerald Loeb Awards Banquet. The 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.

The Loeb Awards includes two special awards for career contributions: the Lifetime Achievement Award, which was given to Steven Pearlstein, associate editor and columnist for The Washington Post, and the Lawrence Minard Editor Award, which went to Hank Gilman, deputy managing editor of Fortune. In addition, winners of 13 competition categories were named at the banquet. Following is a list of the 2011 Loeb Awards recipients.

Large Newspapers Winners

• Ben Casselman, Russell Gold, Douglas A. Blackmon, Vanessa O'Connell, Alexandra Berzon and Ana Campoy of The Wall Street Journal for "Deep Trouble."

Medium & Small Newspapers Winners (Tie)

• Chris Serres and Glenn Howatt of Minneapolis Star Tribune for "Hounded - Debtors and the New Breed of Collectors."
• Michael J. Berens of The Seattle Times for "Seniors for Sale"

Magazines Winners

• Amanda Bennett and Charles R. Babcock of Bloomberg Businessweek for "End-of-Life Warning at $618,616 Makes Me Wonder Was It Worth It."

Commentary Winner

• Paul Krugman of The New York Times for "Paul Krugman Columns."

Breaking News Winners

• Tom Lauricella, Peter A. McKay, Scott Patterson, Jenny Strasburg, Robin Sidel, Carolyn Cui and Mary Pilon of The Wall Street Journal for "Flash Crash."

Beat Reporting Winners

• Daniel Golden, John Hechinger and John Lauerman of Bloomberg News for "Education Inc."

News Services Winner

• David Evans of Bloomberg News for "Profiting From Fallen Soldiers."

Explanatory Winners

• David Nicklaus and Tim Logan of St. Louis Post-Dispatch for "Edifice Complex."

Online Enterprise Winners

• Julia Angwin, Emily Steel, Scott Thurm, Christina Tsuei, Paul Antonson, Jill Kirschenbaum, Jovi Juan, Andrew Garcia Phillips, Sarah Slobin, Susan McGregor, Tom McGinty and Jennifer Valentino-DeVries of The Wall Street Journal for "What They Know."

Blogging Winner

• Kara Swisher of All Things Digital for "Liveblogging Yahoo Earnings Calls in 2010 (They're Funny!)."

Personal Finance Winner

• Ron Lieber of The New York Times for "Student Debt."

Television Enterprise Winners

• Mitch Weitzner, Scott Cohn, Jeff Pohlman, Emily Bodenberg, Steven Banton and Gary Vandenbergh of CNBC for "Remington Under Fire: A CNBC Investigation."

Business Books Winner

• Sebastian Mallaby of The Penguin Press for "More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite."

The Loeb Awards were established in 1957 by the late Gerald Loeb to honor journalists who make significant contributions to the understanding of business, finance and the economy. He intended to encourage reporting on these subjects that would both inform and protect the private investor and the general public.

Distinguished journalists nationwide participate. UCLA Anderson School of Management has presented the program since 1973 and takes great pleasure in encouraging your participation.

About Gerald Loeb
Gerald Loeb was a highly successful financier and founding partner of E.F. Hutton who made it his mission to educate individuals about finance, investments and economics. He first rose to prominence during the Great Depression, when skittish investors turned to his now-classic book "The Battle for Investment Survival," in which he outlined his buy-and-sell strategies.

Throughout his 40-year career on Wall Street, Loeb continued to offer his sometimes-contrarian wisdom through his books and regular columns in publications such as Barron's. Loeb hoped to perpetuate quality reporting and writing for individual investors by leaving as his legacy the Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism.