The Gerald Loeb Awards banquet and celebration will be held on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023, at Capitale in New York City, where the winning journalists and outlets for each competition category will be announced.
The following Gerald Loeb Award finalists include 29 organizations and more than 175 journalists chosen among 485 entries submitted in all forms of media by local, regional and national outlets and individual journalists:
AUDIO CATEGORY
“In Trust” – Bloomberg News and iHeart Media
Rachel Adams-Heard, Allison Herrera (Salinan), Davis Land, Jeff Grocott, Samantha Storey and Victor Yvellez
“Who Killed Daphne?” – Reuters, Times of Malta and Wondery
Stephen Grey, Jacob Borg, Russell Finch, Nikka Singh and the Wondery Miniseries Team
“Bad Bets: The Unraveling of Trevor Milton” – The Wall Street Journal, Jigsaw Productions and Story Force Entertainment
Ben Foldy, Sruthi Pinnamaneni, Shane McKeon, Frank Matt, Garrett Graham, Ken Brown, PJ Vogt, Scott Saloway, Daniel Rosen, Benjamin Weltman, Blye Pagon Faust and Cori Shepherd Stern
BEAT REPORTING CATEGORY
“American Labor Strikes Back” – Bloomberg Businessweek
Josh Eidelson
“Cracks in Crypto Empire” – CoinDesk
Ian Allison, Tracy Wang, Nick Baker, Cheyenne Ligon, Sam Reynolds, Sam Kessler, Nikhilesh De and Reilly Decker
“Federal Reserve at Jackson Hole” – The Associated Press
Christopher Rugaber
BREAKING NEWS CATEGORY
“Metals Market Mayhem” – Bloomberg News
Jack Farchy, Alfred Cang, Mark Burton, Isis Almeida and Liezel Hill
“The Collapse of FTX” – Financial Times
Joshua Oliver, Nikou Asgari, Scott Chipolina, Antoine Gara, Harriet Agnew, Tabby Kinder, Richard Waters and Kadhim Shubber
“The Collapse of FTX” – Reuters
Tom Wilson, Angus Berwick, Chris Prentice, Hannah Lang, Koh Gui Qing, Jasper Ward, Luc Cohen and Elizabeth Howcroft
“The Collapse of CNN+” – The New York Times
Michael Grynbaum, John Koblin and Benjamin Mullin
COMMENTARY CATEGORY
“The Rise of Quiet Quitting” – Insider
Aki Ito
“The ‘Zero Covid’ Charade” – The New York Times
Li Yuan
“Coverage of the Infant Formula Shortage” – The Washington Post
Alyssa Rosenberg
EXPLANATORY CATEGORY
“The Crypto Story” – Bloomberg Businessweek
Matthew S. Levine
“Big Plastic” – Bloomberg Green
Stephanie Baker, Matthew Campbell, Kit Chellel, K Oanh Ha, Leslie Kaufman, Jeremy C.F. Lin, Wojciech Moskwa, Saxton Randolph and Patpicha Tanakasempipat
“Repowering the West” – Los Angeles Times
Sammy Roth, Robert Gauthier, Maggie Beidelman, Jessica Q. Chen, Claire Hannah Collins, Ashley Cai and Thomas Suh Lauder
“The Landlord & the Tenant” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and ProPublica
Raquel Rutledge and Ken Armstrong
FEATURE CATEGORY
“Human Trafficking’s Newest Abuse: Forcing Victims into Cyberscamming” – ProPublica
Cezary Podkul and Cindy Liu
“‘I’m the Operator’: The Aftermath of a Self-Driving Tragedy” – WIRED
Lauren Smiley
“The Crypto Trap: Inside the Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site” – WIRED
Andy Greenberg
INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY
“Microfinance Misery” – Bloomberg News
Gavin Finch, David Kocieniewski, Sinduja Rangarajan and Christopher Cannon
“Stolen Ukrainian Grain Fueling Putin’s War Machine” – The Associated Press and PBS Frontline
Michael Biesecker, Beatrice Dupuy, Sarah El Deeb, Serginho Roosblad, Arijeta Lajka, Dan Nolan and Miles Alvord
“The Amazon, Undone” – The Washington Post
Terrence McCoy
INVESTIGATIVE CATEGORY
“Profit, Pain, and Private Equity” – BuzzFeed News
Kendall Taggart, John Templon, Anthony Cormier and Jason Leopold
“Undocumented and Underage” – Reuters
Joshua Schneyer, Mica Rosenberg and Kristina Cooke
“Dangerous Dwellings” – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Alan Judd, Willoughby Mariano, Johnny Edwards and Jennifer Peebles
LOCAL CATEGORY
“Legal Weed, Broken Promises” – Los Angeles Times
Adam Elmahrek, Paige St. John, Robert J. Lopez, Ruben Vives, Marisa Gerber, Kiera Feldman and Brian van der Brug
“Private Equity Goes Fishing” – New Bedford Light and ProPublica
Will Sennott
“What Lies Beneath: Trouble in West Texas” – Texas Monthly
Russell Gold
PERSONAL FINANCE AND CONSUMER REPORTING CATEGORY
“Fast Fashion” – Bloomberg News
Sheridan Prasso, Natalie Obiko Pearson, Ekow Dontoh, Rachael Dottle and Dhwani Pandya
“How Visa and Mastercard Ignore Fraud and Fail Consumers” – BuzzFeed News
Rosalind Adams and Tom Warren
“Diagnosis: Debt” – KFF Health News, NPR and CBS News
Noam N. Levey, Aneri Pattani, Yuki Noguchi, Anna Werner, Bram Sable-Smith, Juweek Adolphe and Megan Kalata
“Rent Barons” – ProPublica
Heather Vogell, Haru Coryne and Erin Smith
VIDEO CATEGORY
“Hertz Arrests Investigation” – CBS News
Anna Werner, Nicole Busch, Nicole Keller and Erin Rosenblum
“The Power of Big Oil” – PBS Frontline
Dan Edge, Jane McMullen, Gesbeen Mohammad, Robin Barnwell, Sara Obeidat, Russell Gold, Eamonn Matthews, James Jacoby and Emma Supple
“How Russia Stole Ukraine’s Grain” – The Wall Street Journal
Emma Scott, Costas Paris, Jane Lytvynenko, Alistair Macleaod, Lisa Schwartz, Till Daldrup, Avani Yadav, Robert Libetti, Christopher S. Stewart and Ben Weltman
VISUAL STORYTELLING CATEGORY
“The Climate Game” – Financial Times
Sam Joiner, Alexandra Heal, Leslie Hook and Dan Clark
“A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making” – ProPublica and Los Angeles Times
Mark Olalde, Maya Miller, Alex Mierjeski, Mollie Simon, Mauricio Rodríguez Pons, Ed Ou, Almudena Toral, Lucas Waldron, Gerardo del Valle, Liz Moughon and Allen Tan
“Life in Hong Kong’s Shoebox Housing” – South China Morning Post
Marcelo Duhalde, Kaliz Lee, Han Huang, Adolfo Arranz, Fiona Sun and Dennis Wong
