Carol Loomis

Carol Junge Loomis (born June 25, 1929) is an American financial journalist, and editor-at-large at Fortune magazine.^[1]

She attended Drury College, and graduated from the University of Missouri, with a Bachelor of Journalism degree in 1951.^[2]

In 1966, she coined the term "hedge fund" in Fortune.^[3] In 1976, she was appointed to the Advisory Committee on Federal Consolidated Financial Statements. In 1980, she was one of six panelists at the presidential debates of Ronald Reagan and John Anderson.^[4]

For many years she has been widely regarded as the business journalist on closest terms with multi-billionaire Warren Buffett.

Awards

• 1993 Gerald M. Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award ^[5]
• 2000 Women's Economic Round Table award for print journalists
• 2001 Time Inc.'s Henry R. Luce Award
• 2006 Distinguished Achievement Award, Society of American Business Editors and Writers^[6]

Works

• "A conversation with Warren Buffett", Fortune, June 25, 2006
• "Warren Buffett's Wild Ride at Salomon", October 27, 1997
• "The 15% Delusion", FORTUNE, February 5, 2001

References

External links

• "Fortune magazine senior editor returns to MU", Missourian, KATY STEINMETZ, September 13, 2008
• "Carol Loomis Q&A", University of North Carolina, Chris Roush, Sept. 12, 2005
• Carol Loomis articles at Byliner
• "MONEY & ETHICS", News Hour, June 27, 2002
• "Carol Loomis", Charlie Rose
• "Happy 80th birthday, Carol Loomis"