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Loeb finalists named for 2024

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 MillerAnnie MassaMax ChafkinChris SeigelRussell FinchRachel B. DoyleMark Milian and Jeff Grocott

“Head Down: A Two-Part Investigation into the Migrant Guest Worker Program” – Futuro Investigates and Prism
Fernanda EchavarriPatricia SulbaranTina 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 ClarkPeter Balonon-RosenGrace RubinMichael MayElisabeth GawthropAlyson ClaryCaitlin EschChris JulinMuna Danish, Marque Green, Tiffany BuiJayk CherryCatherine 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 TaylorSteve Stecklow, Norihiko Shirouzu, Hyunjoo JinRachael LevyKevin KrolickiWaylon 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 MassoudiStephen MorrisLaura NoonanJames Fontanella-Khan and Owen Walker

The Bankman-Fried Verdict” – The New York Times
David Yaffe-BellanyMatthew Goldstein, J. Edward MorenoDavid Streitfeld and Erin Griffith

“The New Banking Crisis” – The Wall Street Journal
Rachel Louise Ensign, Corrie Driebusch, Meghan BobrowskyTelis DemosBen FoldyAnnaMaria AndriotisMiriam GottfriedDavid BenoitBen Eisen and Justin Baer

“United Auto Workers Strike” – The Washington Post
Jeanne WhalenLauren GurleyRachel LermanHanna 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 TaggartPriyanka PullaPeter RobisonZachary MiderAnna EdneyRiley GriffinSwati Gupta and Modou Joof

“The Obesity Revolution” – STAT
Elaine ChenMegan MolteniNicholas FlorkoIsabella 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 UrbinaJoe GalvinMaya MartinSusan RyanDaniel MurphyAustin BrushJake ConleyStephan FoxwellBen Blankenship and Raphaela Morais

INVESTIGATIVE CATEGORY

“Death by the Dose” – Reuters
Krishna N. DasEdward McAllisterJennifer RigbyStanley WidiantoKate LambSaurabh 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

Milwaukees Hidden Landlords” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Cary SpivakGenevieve RedstenDaphne Chen and Princess Safiya Byers

“Toxic Texas Air” – Public Health Watch
David LefflerSavanna StrottSalina Arredondo, Jana Cholakovska, Jim MorrisNazmul Ahasan and Susan White

PERSONAL FINANCE & CONSUMER REPORTING CATEGORY

“Charting the Rise and Fall of Allegedly Fraudulent California Consumer Debt Firm” – Law360
Daniel ConnollyMatt FairBrandon LowreyJon HillAllison GrandeEmily FieldDave 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 ArmstrongPatrick RuckerMaya MillerRobin Fields, T. Christian Miller and Ash Ngu

VIDEO CATEGORY

“ABC News Investigates: Danger in the Fields?” – ABC News Nightline
Eman VaroquaCindy GalliAlex PreshaCho ParkJames HillKarin WeinbergPete MaddenDeborah KimJared Kofsky and Kate Holland

IMPACT x Nightline: Unboxing SHEIN” – ABC News Studios
Eman VaroquaCandace Smith ChekwaSelina WangKaren YeJaclyn SkurieCaitlin BladtElizabeth MendezKarson YouTenzin ShakyaAshley Riegle and Rachel Wenzlaff

“The Shark Fin Hunters” – Al Jazeera English
Laila Al-ArianJeremy YoungJosh RushingRodrigo GaldosLuis del Valle and Warwick Meade

“RUIN: Money, Ego and Deception at FTX” – Bloomberg News
Shern Sharma, Maria Gabriella PezzoStuart HartPat RegnierAnnie MassaMax ChafkinHannah MillerZeke FauxStacy-Marie Ishmael and Staff of Bloomberg

Elon Musks Demons” – The New York Times
Andrew Ross SorkinJacqueline CorbaSam DolnickCaroline BrunelleKate Carrington and Julie Zann

“Sold Out: Ticketmaster and the Resale Racket” – Vice and Tubi
Pieter ColpaertNicholas Fraccaro, Maral Usefi, Beverly ChaseStacey SommerJason KoeblerJeb BanegasChris Herde and Khadija Abuyousif

VISUAL STORYTELLING CATEGORY

“Humans Are Biased. Generative AI Is Even Worse” – Bloomberg News
Leonardo NicolettiDina BassChloe Whiteaker and Jillian Ward

“Power Plays” – Bloomberg News
Gavin Finch, Jason Grotto, Todd GillespieSam DodgeWill MathisVernon SilverEric FanNaureen MalikRachel Adams-Heard and Jeremy C.F. Lin

Elon Musk’s Unmatched Power in the Stars” – The New York Times
Adam SatarianoScott ReinhardCade MetzSheera Frenkel and Malika Khurana

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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