The following 2021 Gerald Loeb Awards finalists were chosen among more than 465 entries submitted in all media by local, regional and national outlets and individual journalists.
The Gerald Loeb Awards ceremony will take place as a live virtual event and watch party on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021.
Tyler Mathisen, co-anchor of CNBC’s “Power Lunch,” will host this year’s show, announcing the winning journalists and outlets for each competition category. During the show, winners will be able to give their acceptance speeches live from anywhere in the world. The Loeb Awards has partnered with the Fenway Group to produce a virtual environment where event attendees can interact with one another and watch the awards show. Sponsors will be able to reserve private video chat-enabled watching rooms to view the live stream and celebrate with colleagues, friends or family.
The official invitation to the 2021 Gerald Loeb Awards — with registration and sponsorship information — can be viewed at theloebawards.com.
The G. and R. Loeb Foundation Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates primarily on competition entry fees, banquet ticket sales, sponsorships and private support.
AUDIO FINALISTS
“Blood River” – Bloomberg
Monte Reel and Topher Forhecz
“STUCK: Inside California’s Housing” – KPCC Southern California Public Radio
Aaron Mendelson, Rina Palta, Priska Neely, Shana Daloria, Chava Sanchez, Adriene Hill, Mike Kessler, Megan Garvey, Dana Amihere and Mark Schoofs
“American Rehab” – Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX
Shoshona Walter, Laura Starecheski, Ike Sriskandarajah, Brett Myers, Kevin Sullivan, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Katharine Mieszkowski, Najib Aminy, Rosemarie Ho, Al Letson, Amy Julia Harris, Amy Mostafa, Matt Thompson, Esther Kaplan, Andy Donohue, Amanda Pike, Narda Zacchino, Gabe Hongsdusit, Sarah Mirk, Claire Mullen, Byard Duncan, David Rodriguez, Eren K. Wilson and Hannah Young
BEAT REPORTING FINALISTS
“Confronting Climate Change in California” – Los Angeles Times
Sammy Roth
“The Peril Ahead” – The New York Times
Ben Casselman
“Amazon’s Abuses” – The Wall Street Journal
Dana Mattioli, Cara Lombardo, Patience Haggin and Shane Shifflett
“Essential Workers on the Front Lines” – The Washington Post
Kimberly Kindy, Taylor Telford, Robert Klemko, Abha Bhattarai, Nicole Dungca, Jenn Abelson and Meryl Kornfield
BREAKING NEWS FINALISTS
“60 Minutes: The Jobless” – CBS News
Scott Pelley, Aaron Weisz, Ian Flickinger, Sean Kelly and Jan Mann
“Collapse of Wirecard” – The Financial Times
Dan McCrum, Olaf Storbeck, Stefania Palma, John Reed, Guy Chazan and Laurence Fletcher
“A Vaccine Arrives” – The New York Times
Katie Thomas, Sharon LaFraniere, Noah Weiland and the staff of The New York Times
“Paycheck Protection Program Rollout” – The Wall Street Journal
Bob Davis, Ruth Simon, Peter Rudegeair, Yuka Hayashi, Heather Haddon and Andrew Duehren
COMMENTARY FINALISTS
“Morgan Housel Commentary” – The Collaborative Fund
Morgan Housel
“An Unequal Economy” – Los Angeles Times
Michael Hiltzik
“The Trump Administration’s Use and Abuse of Regulation” – The Washington Post
Catherine Rampell
“Sincerely, Michelle” – The Washington Post
Michelle Singletary
EXPLANATORY FINALISTS
“Fumed Out” – Los Angeles Times
Kiera Feldman
“Google the Giant” – The Markup
Adrianne Jeffries, Leon Yin, Maddy Varner and Sam Morris
“How Covid Tore Apart Small Businesses” – The Wall Street Journal
Ruth Simon, Valerie Bauerlein, Bob Davis, Yuka Hayashi and Peter Rudegeair
FEATURE FINALISTS
“Cruising for Catastrophe” – Bloomberg Businessweek
Austin Carr, Christopher Palmeri, Michael Smith, Drake Bennett, K. Oanh Ha and Matthew Campbell
“Unlucky Charms: The Rise and Fall of Billion-Dollar Jewelry Empire Alex and Ani” – Marker
Aaron Gell and Danielle Sacks
“The Recession’s Reach in Florida” – The Washington Post
Greg Jaffe
INTERNATIONAL FINALISTS
“Fruits of Labor” – Associated Press
Margie Mason and Robin McDowell
“The FinCEN Files” – BuzzFeed News and International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Michael W. Hudson, Dean Starkman, Simon Bowers, Emilia Díaz-Struck, Tanya Kozyreva, Will Fitzgibbon, Sasha Chavkin, Ben Hallman, Karrie Kehoe, Richard H. P. Sia, Tom Stites, Joe Hillhouse, Delphine Reuter, Agustin Armendariz, Margot Williams, Hamish Boland-Rudder, Antonio Cucho, Gerard Ryle, Mago Torres, Scilla Alecci, Jelena Cosic, Miguel Fiandor Gutiérrez, Madeline O’Leary, Patricia Marcano, Kyra Gurney, Miriam Pensack, Spencer Woodman, Michael Sallah, Anne L’Hôte, Amy Wilson-Chapman, Ashlee Guevara, Anthony Cormier, Jason Leopold, Tom Warren, Scott Pham, John Templon, Jeremy Singer-Vine, Richard Holmes, Emma Loop, Sophie Comeau, Waylon Cunningham, Sam Feehan, Nancy Guan, Kristy Hutchings, Kylie Storm, Felicia Tapia, Karen Wang, Abby Washer and Ashley Zhang
“Facebook’s Struggle to Police Hate in India” – The Wall Street Journal
Jeff Horwitz, Newley Purnell and Rajesh Roy
“Huawei, 5G, and the Man Who Conquered Noise” – Wired
Steven Levy
INVESTIGATIVE FINALISTS
“Addicted to Profit” – Bloomberg News
Cam Simpson, Michael Smith and Nacha Cattan
“Inside Wirecard” – The Financial Times
Dan McCrum, Olaf Storbeck, Sam Jones, Paul Murphy, Helen Warrell, Henry Fox, Max Seddon, Andrew England and Erika Solomon
“In the Shadows: The Rise of Hospital Violence” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Raquel Rutledge, John Diedrich and Daphne Chen
“Back to the Jungle” – The New Yorker
Jane Mayer
LOCAL FINALISTS
“Thousands Of D.C. Renters Are Evicted Every Year. Do They All Know to Show Up to Court?” – DCist and WAMU
Josh Kaplan
“Deceit, Disrepair and Death Inside a Southern California Rental Empire” – KPCC Southern California Radio and LAist
Aaron Mendelson, Rina Palta, Chava Sanchez, Shana Daloria and Priska Neely
“Dying for Dollars” – Los Angeles Times
Kim Christensen and Ben Poston
PERSONAL FINANCE AND CONSUMER REPORTING FINALISTS
“Blacklight” – The Markup
Surya Mattu, Aaron Sankin and Julia Angwin
“Evenflo, Maker of the ‘Big Kid’ Booster Seat, Put Profits Over Child Safety” – ProPublica
Daniela Porat, Patricia Callahan and Lucas Waldron
“A Personal-Loan Company Sues Its Customers — During a Pandemic” – The Texas Tribune and ProPublica
Kiah Collier, Perla Trevizo, Ren Larson, Paul Kiel, Lexi Churchill and Chris Essig
VIDEO FINALISTS
“Opioids, Inc.” – FRONTLINE and Financial Times
Thomas Jennings, Annie Wong, Nick Verbitsky, Hannah Kuchler, Rebecca Blandón, Anna Auster and Shaunagh Connaire
“The Luanda Leaks Documentary” – International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, FRONTLINE and The New York Times
Staffs of International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, FRONTLINE, The New York Times and other media partners
“The Electric Vehicle Road Test” – The Wall Street Journal
Frank Matt, Aja Harris, Christina Rogers, Nora Naughton, Erich Schwartzel, James Areddy, Valerie Bauerlein, Katherine Blunt, William Boston, Lee Hawkins, Sean McLain, Laura Kammermann, Clement Burge, George Downs and Robert Alcaraz
“Banking Below 30” – WFAA-TV
David Schechter, Jason Trahan, Chance Horner and T. Nicole Waivers
VISUAL STORYTELLING FINALISTS
“Climate Scoreboard” – Bloomberg Green
Aaron Rutkoff, Rachael Dottle, Brian Eckhouse, Brittany Harris, Dina Khrennikova, Laura Millan Lombrana, Will Mathis, Rachel Morison, Paul Murray, Demetrios Pogkas, Mira Rojanasakul, Eric Roston, Anna Shiryaevskaya, Olga Tanas, Andre Tartar, Will Wade, Hayley Warren, Jillian Goodman, Sharon Chen, Alex Tribou, Martin Keohan and Yue Qui
“Visualizing the Pandemic Economy” – The New York Times
Rich Harris, Blacki Migliozzi, Niraj Chokshi, Bill Marsh, Guilbert Gates, Ella Koeze, Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, Larry Buchanan, Aliza Aufrichtig, Michael Corkery, Derek Watkins, Josh Holder, James Glanz, Weiyi Cai, Benedict Carey, Jeremy White, Jonah Markowitz and Christina Goldbaum
“COVID-19: Tracking and Economic Impacts” – Reuters
Jon McClure, Chris Canipe, Gurman Bhatia, Prasanta Kumar Dutta, Sarah Slobin, Matthew Weber, Ally Levine, Howard Schneider, Feilding Cage and Sangameswaran S.
“WSJ Graphics Portfolio” – The Wall Street Journal
Tonia Cowan, Inti Pacheco, Stephanie Stamm, Peter Santilli, Yan Wu, Vivien Ngo, Jared S. Hopkins, Peter Loftus, Juanje Gómez, Taylor Umlauf, Anthony DeBarros, Ryan Tracy, Maureen Linke, Eliza Collins, Ariel Zambelich, Jessica Wang, Jessica Kuronen, Danny Dougherty, Madeleine Ngo and Katherine Riley.
