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Loeb Award finalists are named

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-HeardAllison Herrera (Salinan), Davis LandJeff GrocottSamantha Storey and Victor Yvellez

“Who Killed Daphne?” – Reuters, Times of Malta and Wondery
Stephen GreyJacob BorgRussell FinchNikka Singh and the Wondery Miniseries Team

“Bad Bets: The Unraveling of Trevor Milton” – The Wall Street Journal, Jigsaw Productions and Story Force Entertainment
Ben FoldySruthi PinnamaneniShane McKeonFrank MattGarrett GrahamKen Brown, PJ Vogt, Scott SalowayDaniel RosenBenjamin WeltmanBlye Pagon Faust and Cori Shepherd Stern

BEAT REPORTING CATEGORY

“American Labor Strikes Back” – Bloomberg Businessweek
Josh Eidelson

“Cracks in Crypto Empire” – CoinDesk
Ian AllisonTracy WangNick BakerCheyenne LigonSam ReynoldsSam KesslerNikhilesh De and Reilly Decker

“Federal Reserve at Jackson Hole” – The Associated Press
Christopher Rugaber

BREAKING NEWS CATEGORY

“Metals Market Mayhem” – Bloomberg News
Jack FarchyAlfred CangMark BurtonIsis Almeida and Liezel Hill

“The Collapse of FTX” – Financial Times
Joshua OliverNikou Asgari, Scott Chipolina, Antoine GaraHarriet Agnew, Tabby Kinder, Richard Waters and Kadhim Shubber

“The Collapse of FTX” – Reuters
Tom WilsonAngus BerwickChris PrenticeHannah Lang, Koh Gui Qing, Jasper WardLuc Cohen and Elizabeth Howcroft

“The Collapse of CNN+” – The New York Times
Michael GrynbaumJohn 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 BakerMatthew CampbellKit Chellel, K Oanh Ha, Leslie KaufmanJeremy C.F. LinWojciech MoskwaSaxton Randolph and Patpicha Tanakasempipat

“Repowering the West” – Los Angeles Times
Sammy RothRobert GauthierMaggie BeidelmanJessica Q. ChenClaire Hannah CollinsAshley 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 FinchDavid Kocieniewski, Sinduja Rangarajan and Christopher Cannon

“Stolen Ukrainian Grain Fueling Putin’s War Machine” – The Associated Press and PBS Frontline
Michael BieseckerBeatrice DupuySarah 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 TaggartJohn TemplonAnthony Cormier and Jason Leopold

“Undocumented and Underage” – Reuters
Joshua SchneyerMica Rosenberg and Kristina Cooke

“Dangerous Dwellings” – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Alan JuddWilloughby MarianoJohnny Edwards and Jennifer Peebles

LOCAL CATEGORY

“Legal Weed, Broken Promises” – Los Angeles Times
Adam Elmahrek, Paige St. JohnRobert J. LopezRuben VivesMarisa GerberKiera 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 DontohRachael 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. LeveyAneri PattaniYuki NoguchiAnna WernerBram Sable-Smith, Juweek  Adolphe and Megan Kalata

“Rent Barons” – ProPublica
Heather VogellHaru Coryne and Erin Smith

VIDEO CATEGORY

“Hertz Arrests Investigation” – CBS News
Anna WernerNicole BuschNicole Keller and Erin Rosenblum

“The Power of Big Oil” – PBS Frontline
Dan EdgeJane McMullen, Gesbeen Mohammad, Robin BarnwellSara ObeidatRussell GoldEamonn MatthewsJames Jacoby and Emma Supple

“How Russia Stole Ukraine’s Grain” – The Wall Street Journal
Emma Scott, Costas Paris, Jane LytvynenkoAlistair MacleaodLisa SchwartzTill DaldrupAvani YadavRobert LibettiChristopher S. Stewart and Ben Weltman

VISUAL STORYTELLING CATEGORY

“The Climate Game” – Financial Times
Sam JoinerAlexandra HealLeslie Hook and Dan Clark

“A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making” – ProPublica and Los Angeles Times
Mark OlaldeMaya MillerAlex MierjeskiMollie Simon, Mauricio Rodríguez Pons, Ed OuAlmudena ToralLucas WaldronGerardo del ValleLiz Moughon and Allen Tan

“Life in Hong Kong’s Shoebox Housing” – South China Morning Post
Marcelo Duhalde, Kaliz Lee, Han HuangAdolfo ArranzFiona Sun and Dennis Wong

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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