The Gerald Loeb Awards banquet and celebration will be held on Thursday, Oct. 10, at the Rainbow Room in New York City.The winning journalists and outlets in each competition category will be announced during the banquet and not in advance.
The following Loeb Awards finalists were selected from 491 entries, representing the work of over 200 journalists across local, regional, national and global media outlets in various formats:
AUDIO CATEGORY
“Spellcaster” – Bloomberg News and Wondery
Hannah Miller, Annie Massa, Max Chafkin, Chris Seigel, Russell Finch, Rachel B. Doyle, Mark Milian and Jeff Grocott
“Head Down: A Two-Part Investigation into the Migrant Guest Worker Program” – Futuro Investigates and Prism
Fernanda Echavarri, Patricia Sulbaran, Tina Vasquez, Andrea López-Cruzado, Peniley Ramírez, Maria Hinojosa, Sofía Sánchez and Roxana Aguirre
“The Uncertain Hour, Season 6: The Welfare-to-Work Industrial Complex” – The Uncertain Hour, Marketplace/American Public Media and APM Research Lab
Krissy Clark, Peter Balonon-Rosen, Grace Rubin, Michael May, Elisabeth Gawthrop, Alyson Clary, Caitlin Esch, Chris Julin, Muna Danish, Marque Green, Tiffany Bui, Jayk Cherry, Catherine Winter and Sam Anderson
BEAT REPORTING CATEGORY
“The Pentagon’s Struggle: Confronting an Era of Rising Global Threats and Rapid Warfighting Innovation” – The New York Times
Eric Lipton
“The Musk Industrial Complex” – Reuters
Marisa Taylor, Steve Stecklow, Norihiko Shirouzu, Hyunjoo Jin, Rachael Levy, Kevin Krolicki, Waylon Cunningham, Koh Gui Qing and Marie Mannes
“The Dark Side of Meta’s Algorithms” – The Wall Street Journal
Jeff Horwitz and Katherine Blunt
BREAKING NEWS CATEGORY
“The Collapse of Credit Suisse” – Financial Times
Arash Massoudi, Stephen Morris, Laura Noonan, James Fontanella-Khan and Owen Walker
“The Bankman-Fried Verdict” – The New York Times
David Yaffe-Bellany, Matthew Goldstein, J. Edward Moreno, David Streitfeld and Erin Griffith
“The New Banking Crisis” – The Wall Street Journal
Rachel Louise Ensign, Corrie Driebusch, Meghan Bobrowsky, Telis Demos, Ben Foldy, AnnaMaria Andriotis, Miriam Gottfried, David Benoit, Ben Eisen and Justin Baer
“United Auto Workers Strike” – The Washington Post
Jeanne Whalen, Lauren Gurley, Rachel Lerman, Hanna Zakharenko and Staff of The Washington Post
COMMENTARY CATEGORY
“The Economic Challenges and Successes of American Women and Families” – The Washington Post
Catherine Rampell
“The Help Desk” – The Washington Post
Geoffrey A. Fowler
“How to Revive America’s Comatose Downtowns” – The Washington Post
Heather Long and Sergio Peçanha
EXPLANATORY CATEGORY
“Bad Medicine” – Bloomberg News
Kendall Taggart, Priyanka Pulla, Peter Robison, Zachary Mider, Anna Edney, Riley Griffin, Swati Gupta and Modou Joof
“The Obesity Revolution” – STAT
Elaine Chen, Megan Molteni, Nicholas Florko, Isabella Cueto and Matthew Herper
“AI Is a Lot of Work” – The Verge and New York Magazine
Josh Dzieza
FEATURE CATEGORY
“Ford’s Electric Pickup Uses Metal That’s Damaging the Amazon” – Bloomberg News
Sheridan Prasso and Jessica Brice
“Inside the Psychiatric Hospitals Where Foster Kids Are a ‘Gold Mine‘” – Mother Jones
Julia Lurie
“American Icon” – The Washington Post
Staff of The Washington Post
“Inside an OnlyFans Empire: Sex, Influence and the New American Dream” – The Washington Post
Drew Harwell
INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY
“Indian Companies Are Bringing One of the World’s Most Toxic Industries to Africa” – The Examination, The Museba Project and Ghana Business News
Will Fitzgibbon, Christian Locka and Emmanuel K. Dogbevi
“Cyprus Confidential” – International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, Paper Trail Media and 66 media partners
Staff of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
“Alone and Exploited” – The New York Times
Hannah Dreier
“China: The Superpower of Seafood” – The Outlaw Ocean Project
Ian Urbina, Joe Galvin, Maya Martin, Susan Ryan, Daniel Murphy, Austin Brush, Jake Conley, Stephan Foxwell, Ben Blankenship and Raphaela Morais
INVESTIGATIVE CATEGORY
“Death by the Dose” – Reuters
Krishna N. Das, Edward McAllister, Jennifer Rigby, Stanley Widianto, Kate Lamb, Saurabh Sharma and Willy Kurniawan
“Denied by AI: Consequences for Sick and Vulnerable Americans” – STAT
Casey Ross and Bob Herman
LOCAL CATEGORY
“Checked Out: How L.A. Failed to Stop Landlords from Turning Low-Cost Housing into Tourist Hotels” – Capital & Main and ProPublica
Robin Urevich and Gabriel Sandoval
“Milwaukee‘s Hidden Landlords” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Cary Spivak, Genevieve Redsten, Daphne Chen and Princess Safiya Byers
“Toxic Texas Air” – Public Health Watch
David Leffler, Savanna Strott, Salina Arredondo, Jana Cholakovska, Jim Morris, Nazmul Ahasan and Susan White
PERSONAL FINANCE & CONSUMER REPORTING CATEGORY
“Charting the Rise and Fall of Allegedly Fraudulent California Consumer Debt Firm” – Law360
Daniel Connolly, Matt Fair, Brandon Lowrey, Jon Hill, Allison Grande, Emily Field, Dave Trumbore and Robert Rudiger
“The Ugly Truth: Inside the ‘We Buy Ugly Houses’ Company” – ProPublica
Anjeanette Damon, Byard Duncan and Mollie Simon
“Uncovered” – ProPublica and The Capitol Forum
David Armstrong, Patrick Rucker, Maya Miller, Robin Fields, T. Christian Miller and Ash Ngu
VIDEO CATEGORY
“ABC News Investigates: Danger in the Fields?” – ABC News Nightline
Eman Varoqua, Cindy Galli, Alex Presha, Cho Park, James Hill, Karin Weinberg, Pete Madden, Deborah Kim, Jared Kofsky and Kate Holland
“IMPACT x Nightline: Unboxing SHEIN” – ABC News Studios
Eman Varoqua, Candace Smith Chekwa, Selina Wang, Karen Ye, Jaclyn Skurie, Caitlin Bladt, Elizabeth Mendez, Karson You, Tenzin Shakya, Ashley Riegle and Rachel Wenzlaff
“The Shark Fin Hunters” – Al Jazeera English
Laila Al-Arian, Jeremy Young, Josh Rushing, Rodrigo Galdos, Luis del Valle and Warwick Meade
“RUIN: Money, Ego and Deception at FTX” – Bloomberg News
Shern Sharma, Maria Gabriella Pezzo, Stuart Hart, Pat Regnier, Annie Massa, Max Chafkin, Hannah Miller, Zeke Faux, Stacy-Marie Ishmael and Staff of Bloomberg
“Elon Musk‘s Demons” – The New York Times
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Jacqueline Corba, Sam Dolnick, Caroline Brunelle, Kate Carrington and Julie Zann
“Sold Out: Ticketmaster and the Resale Racket” – Vice and Tubi
Pieter Colpaert, Nicholas Fraccaro, Maral Usefi, Beverly Chase, Stacey Sommer, Jason Koebler, Jeb Banegas, Chris Herde and Khadija Abuyousif
VISUAL STORYTELLING CATEGORY
“Humans Are Biased. Generative AI Is Even Worse” – Bloomberg News
Leonardo Nicoletti, Dina Bass, Chloe Whiteaker and Jillian Ward
“Power Plays” – Bloomberg News
Gavin Finch, Jason Grotto, Todd Gillespie, Sam Dodge, Will Mathis, Vernon Silver, Eric Fan, Naureen Malik, Rachel Adams-Heard and Jeremy C.F. Lin
“Elon Musk’s Unmatched Power in the Stars” – The New York Times
Adam Satariano, Scott Reinhard, Cade Metz, Sheera Frenkel and Malika Khurana
