James B. Stewart, business columnist for The New York Times, will receive the 2025 Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award.
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.
Shortly after graduating from Harvard Law School, Stewart began a journalism career that has spanned nearly five decades. Before his tenure at The New York Times, he served as Page One Editor at The Wall Street Journal, was a staff writer at The New Yorker, and helped launch two successful publications: The American Lawyer and SmartMoney. He is also an emeritus professor at Columbia Journalism School, where he taught business journalism.
Stewart has authored 11 acclaimed books that include “Den of Thieves,” “DisneyWar” and “Unscripted,” and has won numerous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize and five Loeb Awards. His reporting has exposed insider trading scandals, corporate corruption and systemic failures in finance and governance. The trust he’s earned from sources across industries and institutions — combined with his signature blend of investigative rigor and narrative storytelling — has helped elevate business journalism to new heights, making complex financial topics accessible and compelling to broad audiences.
Stewart has influenced a multitude of journalists, many of whom have passed down his guidance in their own newsrooms. He is widely regarded as a mentor and role model who leads by example. That integrity, combined with his unflinching pursuit of truth, exemplifies the values at the heart of the Lifetime Achievement Award.
