The Gerald Loeb Award is an annual journalism award, established in 1957 and administered by the UCLA Anderson School of Management since 1973. This is a list of winners since 2001. Those honored receive a cash prize of USD $2,000.[1]
| Year | Category | Work | Winner | Organization |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Large Newspapers | "Deep Trouble" | Ben Casselman, Russell Gold, Douglas A. Blackmon, Vanessa O'Connell, Alexandra Berzon and Ana Campoy | The Wall Street Journal |
| 2011 | Medium & Small Newspapers | "Hounded -- Debtors and the New Breed of Collectors" | Chris Serres and Glenn Howatt | Minneapolis Star Tribune |
| 2011 | Medium & Small Newspapers | "Seniors for Sale" | Michael J. Berens | The Seattle Times |
| 2011 | Magazines | "End-of-Life Warning at $618,616 Makes Me Wonder Was It Worth It" | Amanda Bennett and Charles R. Babcock | Bloomberg Businessweek |
| 2011 | Commentary | "Paul Krugman Columns" | Paul Krugman | The New York Times |
| 2011 | Breaking News | "Flash Crash" | Tom Lauricella, Peter A. McKay, Scott Patterson, Jenny Strasburg, Robin Sidel, Carolyn Cui and Mary Pilon | The Wall Street Journal |
| 2011 | Beat Reporting | "Education Inc." | Daniel Golden, John Hechinger and John Lauerman | Bloomberg News |
| 2011 | News Service | "Profiting From Fallen Soldiers" | David Evans | Bloomberg News |
| 2011 | Explanatory | "Edifice Complex" | David Nicklaus and Tim Logan | St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
| 2010 | Online Enterprise | "What They Know" | 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 | The Wall Street Journal |
| 2011 | Blogging | "Liveblogging Yahoo Earnings Calls in 2010 (They're Funny!)" | Kara Swisher | All Things Digital |
| 2011 | Personal Finance | "Student Debt" | Ron Lieber | The New York Times |
| 2011 | Television Enterprise | "Remington Under Fire: A CNBC Investigation" | Mitch Weitzner, Scott Cohn, Jeff Pohlman, Emily Bodenberg, Steven Banton and Gary Vandenbergh | CNBC |
| 2011 | Business Book | "More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite" | Sebastian Mallaby | The Penguin Press[2] |
| 2010 | Large Newspapers | "Food Safety" | Michael Moss, Andrew Martin | The New York Times |
| 2010 | Medium & Small Newspapers | "Keys to the Kingdom: How State Regulators Enabled a $7 Billion Ponzi Scheme" | Michael Sallah, Rob Barry, Lucy Komisar | The Miami Herald |
| 2010 | Magazines | "How Bernie Did It" | James Bandler, Nicholas Varchaver, Doris Burke | Fortune Magazine |
| 2010 | Commentary | "Capitalist Fools and Wall Street's Toxic Message" | Joseph E. Stiglitz | Vanity Fair |
| 2010 | Breaking News | "Bankruptcy" | Christine Tierney, David Shepardson, Gordon Trowbridge | The Detroit News |
| 2010 | Beat Writing | "The Toyota Recall" | Ralph Vartabedian, Ken Bensinger | Los Angeles Times |
| 2010 | News Service | "Goldman, Moody's and the Collapse of the American Economy" | Greg Gordon, Kevin G. Hall, Chris Adams | McClatchy Newspapers |
| 2010 | Feature Writing | "Wall Street on the Tundra" | Michael Lewis | Vanity Fair |
| 2010 | Online Commentary and Blogging | "Pogue's Posts" | David Pogue | The New York Times |
| 2010 | Personal Finance | "From Prison to the Pinnacle" | Matthew Hathaway, Elizabethe Holland, Jim Gallagher | St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
| 2010 | Television Breaking News | "The Madoff Scandal" | Scott Cohn, Mary Thompson, Courtney Ford, Wally Griffith, Molly Mazilu | CNBC |
| 2010 | Television Enterprise | "House of Cards" | David Faber, Mitch Weitzner, James Jacoby, Jill Landes, Patrick Ahearn | CNBC |
| 2010 | Business Book | "Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System - and Themselves" | Andrew Ross Sorkin | Penguin Group (USA) - Viking[3] |
| 2009 | Large Newspapers | "The Reckoning" | Gretchen Morgenson, Peter S. Goodman, Charles Duhigg, Carter Dougherty, Eric Dash, Julie Creswell, Jo Becker, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Stephen Labaton | The New York Times |
| 2009 | Medium & Small Newspapers | "Borrowers Betrayed" | Jack Dolan, Matthew Haggman, Rob Barry | The Miami Herald |
| 2009 | Magazines | "Obamanomics" | David Leonhardt | The New York Times Magazine |
| 2009 | Commentary | "Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac" | Brian M. Carney | The Wall Street Journal |
| 2009 | Breaking News | "The Day That Changed Wall Street" | Carrick Mollenkamp, Susanne Craig, Serena Ng, Aaron Lucchetti, Matthew Karnitschnig, Dan Fitzpatrick, Deborah Solomon, Dennis K. Berman, Liam Pleven, Peter Lattman, Annelena Lobb | The Wall Street Journal |
| 2009 | Beat Writing | "The Fall of Wachovia" | Rick Rothacker | The Charlotte Observer |
| 2009 | News Services | "Broken Promises" | William Selway, Martin Z. Braun | Bloomberg News |
| 2009 | Feature Writing | "The End" | Michael Lewis | Condé Nast Portfolio |
| 2009 | Online | "Middle Class Crunch" | Art Lenehan, Peggy Collins, Aaron Whallon, Anh Ly, Elizabeth Daza, Joe Farro, Sean Enzwiler, Rachel Elson, Mark Baumgartner, Lauren Barack, Richard Conniff, Judi Hasson | MSN Money |
| 2009 | Television Breaking News | "Economic Crisis: House of Cards," | Steve Kroft, Jennifer MacDonald, L. Franklin Devine | CBS News/60 Minutes |
| 2009 | Television Enterprise | "The Wasteland," | Scott Pelley, Solly Granatstein, Nicole Young | CBS News/60 Minutes |
| 2009 | Business Book | Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash | Charles R. Morris | Public Affairs [4] |
| 2008 | Large Newspapers | "Toxic Pipeline" | Walt Bogdanich, Jake Hooker, David Barboza, Andrew W. Lehern | The New York Times |
| 2008 | Medium Newspapers | "Sold A Nightmare" | Binyamin Appelbaum, Lisa Hammersly Munn, Ted Mellnik, Peter St. Onge, Liz Chandler | The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer |
| 2008 | Small Newspapers | "The China Effect" | Tony Bartelme | The Post and Courier (Charleston, S.C.) |
| 2008 | Magazines | "House of Junk" | Allan Sloan | Fortune |
| 2008 | Commentary | "Talking Business" | Joe Nocera | The New York Times |
| 2008 | Breaking News | "The Fall of E. Stanley O'Neal at Merrill Lynch" | Jenny Anderson, Landon Thomas Jr. | The New York Times |
| 2008 | Beat Writing | "Breakdown at Bear Stearns" | Kate Kelly, Serena Ng, Susanne Craig, David Reilly | The Wall Street Journal |
| 2008 | News Services | "Wall Street's Faustian Bargain" | Mark Pittman, Bob Ivry, Kathleen M. Howley | Bloomberg News |
| 2008 | Feature Writing | "Message in a Bottle" | Charles Fishman | Fast Company |
| 2008 | Online | "Keeping Up With The Wangs" | Art Lenehan, Anh Ly, Suzanne McGee | MSN Money |
| 2008 | Television Daily | "India's Promise" | Steve Washington, Darren Gersh, Dana Greenspon, Sanjay Jha | Nightly Business Report |
| 2008 | Television Enterprise | "Money for Nothing" | Byron Harris, Mark Smith, Kraig Kirchem | WFAA-TV |
| 2008 | Business Book | Mine's Bigger: Tom Perkins and the Making of the Greatest Sailing Machine Ever Built | David A. Kaplan | William Morrow [5] |
| 2007 | Large Newspapers | “The Secretive Backdating of Option Awards for Corporate Executives” | Charles Forelle, James Bandler, Mark Maremont, Steve Stecklow | The Wall Street Journal |
| 2007 | Medium Newspapers | “Crab Factory” | Chiaki Kawajiri, Gady A. Epstein, Stephanie Desmo] | The Baltimore Sun |
| 2007 | Small Newspapers | “The Great Empire Zone Giveaway” | Mike McAndrew, Michelle Breidenbach | The Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) |
| 2007 | Magazines | “How Many Lightbulbs Does It Take to Change the World? One.” | Charles Fishman | Fast Company |
| 2007 | Commentary | “Steve Bailey Downtown” | Steve Bailey | The Boston Globe |
| 2007 | Deadline Writing | “The Implosion of a Highflying Hedge Fund” | Ann Davis, Henny Sender, Gregory Zuckerman | The Wall Street Journal |
| 2007 | Beat Writing | “Radio Shack CEO\'s Resume in Question” | Heather Landy | Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
| 2007 | News Services Online Content | “Who Are the Short Sellers?” | Alistair Barr | MarketWatch |
| 2007 | Feature Writing | "Rewriting the Social Contract" | Louis Uchitelle | The New York Times |
| 2007 | Television Daily | “Trophy” | Jim Popkin, Lisa Myers, Albert Oetgen, Doug Adams, Adam Cirlasky, Rich Gardella | NBC News |
| 2007 | Television Enterprise | “The Mother of All Heists” | Jeff Fager, Steve Kroft, Andy Court, Keith Sharman, Patti Hassler, Daniel J. Glucksman | CBS News 60 Minutes |
| 2007 | Business Book | The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More | Chris Anderson | Hyperion [6] |
| 2006 | Large Newspapers | “Borrower Beware” | Ann Hardie, Carrie Teegardin, Alan Judd | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
| 2006 | Medium Newspapers | “Ohio Rare Coin Funds” | Christopher Kirkpatrick, Joshua Boak, Steve Eder, Jim Drew and Mike Wilkinson, | The Blade (Toledo, Ohio) |
| 2006 | Small Newspapers | “School’s Pursuit of Profit Leaves Students Behind” | Sam Kennedy, Christina Gostomski | The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) |
| 2006 | Magazines | “Why Carly’s Big Bet Is Failing, How the HP Board KO’d Carly” | Carol Loomis | Fortune |
| 2006 | Commentary | “Review and Outlook: Kianna’s Law” | Robert L. Pollock | The Wall Street Journal |
| 2006 | Commentary | “Business and Economics Columns” | Steven Pearlstein | The Washington Post |
| 2006 | Deadline Writing | “Sale of MBNA” | Maureen Milford, Ted Griffith, Luladey B. Tadesse, Robin Brown, Gary Soulsman, Christopher Yasiejko, Michele Besso, Steven Church, Jeff Montgomery, Peter Bothum | The News Journal (New Castle, Del.) |
| 2006 | Beat Writing | “The Most Expensive Drugs and How They Came to Be” | Geeta Anand | The Wall Street Journal |
| 2006 | News Services Online Content | “Lax Loans” | Frank Bass, Dirk Lammers, Larry Margasak | The Associated Press |
| 2006 | Television Deadline | “The Katrina Effect” | Anne Thompson, Doug Adams, Liz Brown, Carl Sears, Kelly Venardos, Joo Lee, Rick Brown, Katie Ernst, Rich Dubroff, Doug Stoddart, Chuck Schaeffer, Mario Garcia, Meaghan Rady, Genevieve Michel Bryan, Jill Silvestri, Chris Scholl, Sharon Hoffman, Albert Oetgen, John Reiss | NBC Nightly News |
| 2006 | Television Enterprise | “China Rising” | Paul Solman, Lee Koromvokis, Jeffrey Klein, Jacob Klein, Joanne Elgart Jennings | The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer |
| 2006 | Business Book | DisneyWar | James B. Stewart | Simon & Schuster [7] |
| 2005 | Large Newspapers | "Death on the Tracks" | Walt Bogdanich | The New York Times |
| 2005 | Medium Newspapers | "Danger Overhead: Crushed Roofs" | Bill Vlasic, Jeff Plungis | The Detroit News |
| 2005 | Small Newspapers | "The China Challenge" | Craig Troianello | Yakima (WA) Herald-Republic |
| 2005 | Magazines | "The Toll of a New Machine" | Charles Fishman | Fast Company |
| 2005 | Magazines | "Why We're Losing the War on Cancer (and How to Win It)" | Clifton Leaf | Fortune |
| 2005 | Commentary | "Cracks in Fannie Mae’s Foundation" | Peter Eavis | TheStreet.com |
| 2005 | Deadline Writing | "End of an Era" | Andrew Ross Sorkin, Steve Lohr, David Barboza, Gary Rivlin, John Markoff | The New York Times |
| 2005 | Beat Writing | "The Short Life of 'Lifetime' Health-Care Benefits" | Ellen E. Schultz, Theo Francis | The Wall Street Journal |
| 2005 | News Services Online Content | "Exposing Small-Cap Fraud" | Carol S. Remond | Dow Jones Newswires |
| 2005 | Television Deadline | "Money for Nothing?" | Christopher Cuomo, Shelley Ross, Bob Lange, Thomas Berman, Jack Pyle | ABC News: Primetime [8] |
| 2004 | Large Newspapers | "Big Green” | David Ottaway, Joe Stephens | The Washington Post |
| 2004 | Medium Newspapers | "Drugging the Poor” | Fred Schulte | South Florida Sun-Sentinel |
| 2004 | Small Newspapers | "Everybody at Risk” | Kate Long | The Charleston Gazette |
| 2004 | Magazines | "Is Your Job Next? The Rise of India” | Aaron Bernstein, Pete Engardio, Manjeet Kripalani | BusinessWeek |
| 2004 | Commentary | "Golden State" | Michael Hiltzik | Los Angeles Times |
| 2004 | Deadline Writing | "The Day Grasso Quit as NYSE Chief" | Susanne Craig, Ianthe Jeanne Dugan, Theo Francis, Kate Kelly | The Wall Street Journal |
| 2004 | Beat Writing | “A Spotlight on Boeing’s Legal and Ethical Scandals” | J. Lynn Lunsford, Andy Pasztor, Anne Marie Squeo | The Wall Street Journal |
| 2004 | News Services Online Content | “The Flimflam Man” | Adrian Cox, David Evans, Abhay Singh | Bloomberg News |
| 2004 | News Services Online Content | “Risky Rx” | Chris Adams, Alison Young | Knight Ridder Washington Bureau |
| 2004 | Short Form Television | “The Jobless Recovery” | Doug Adams, Christiana Arvelis, Donna Bass, Steve Capus, Joo Lee, Karen Nye, Albert Oetgen, Felicia Patinkin, Charles Schaeffer, Nikki Stamos, Anne Thompson | NBC Nightly News |
| 2004 | Long Form Television | "Imported from India” | Rome Hartman, Lesley Stahl | CBS News "60 Minutes" [9] |
| 2003 | Large Newspapers | "AOL’s Advertising Deals" | Alec Klein | The Washington Post |
| 2003 | Medium Newspapers | "The CEO and His Church" | Deborah O’Neil, Jeff Harrington | St. Petersburg (FL) Times |
| 2003 | Small Newspapers | "A License to Steal" | Eric Eyre, Scott Finn | The Charleston (WV) Gazette |
| 2003 | Magazines | "Nationalities of Convenience" | Hal Lux | Institutional Investor |
| 2003 | Commentary | "Auto Industry Commentary" | Jerry Flint | Forbes |
| 2003 | Deadline Writing | "WorldCom’s Whirlwind Demise" | Rebecca Blumenstein, Gregory Zuckerman, Jared Sandberg, Shawn Young, Susan Pulliam, Deborah Solomon, Carrick Mollenkamp | The Wall Street Journal |
| 2003 | Beat Writing | "Inside the S.E.C." | Stephen Labaton | The New York Times |
| 2003 | News Services Online Content | "SuperModels" | Jon D. Markman | CNBC on MSN Money |
| 2003 | Short Form Television | "Enron Investigation" | Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz, Chris Vlasto, Jill Rackmill, David Scott, Gerilyn Curtin, Simon Surowicz | ABC News |
| 2003 | Long Form Television | "La Oroya, City of Lead" | Craig Cheatham, Mark Hadler, Andrea Torrence | KMOV-TV (CBS affiliate, St. Louis, MO) |
| 2002 | Large Newspapers | “Uninformed Consent” | Duff Wilson, David Heath | The Seattle Times |
| 2002 | Medium Newspapers | “Unequal Opportunity” | Jeffrey Meitrodt, Mark Schleifstein, Pamela Coyle, Ronette King | The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, LA) |
| 2002 | Small Newspapers | “Foal Deaths” | Janet Patton | Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader |
| 2002 | Magazines | “The Numbers Game, Why Earnings Are Too Rosy, Confused About Earnings” | David Henry, Nanette Byrnes | BusinessWeek |
| 2002 | Commentary | “Market Watch” | Gretchen Morgenson | The New York Times |
| 2002 | Deadline or Beat Writing | “Enron: The Demise of a Giant” | Rebecca Smith, John Emshwiller | The Wall Street Journal |
| 2002 | News or Wire Service | “Muddy Markets” | Jonathan Berr, Adam Levy, Peter Robison, Russell Hubbard, Neil Roland | Bloomberg News |
| 2002 | Television | “The Money Trail” | Allan Dodds Frank, Lisa Slow | Cable News Network/CNNfn [10] |
| 2001 | Large Newspapers | “The Body Brokers” | William Heisel, Mark Katches, Ronald Campbell | The Orange County Register |
| 2001 | Medium Newspapers | “Government Inc.” | Robert Sargent, Ramsey Campbell, Jim Leusner, Sean Holton | The Orlando Sentinel |
| 2001 | Small Newspapers | “Porn in the USA” | Bruce Rushton | The Riverfront Times (St. Louis, MO) |
| 2001 | Magazines | “AOL’s Rough Riders” | Gary Rivlin | The Industry Standard |
| 2001 | Commentary | “Floyd Norris Columns” | Floyd Norris | The New York Times |
| 2001 | Deadline or Beat Writing | “Juice Squeeze” | Rebecca Smith | The Wall Street Journal |
| 2001 | Radio | “The 100 Greatest Events in the History of the Automotive Industry” | Ed Wallace | KLIF-AM (Dallas, TX) |
| 2001 | Television | “The Paper Chase” | Lynne Dale, John Larson | Dateline NBC - NBC News [11] |