Gilman, Pearlstein to be honored with special Loeb Awards

Hank Gilman, the deputy managing editor of Fortune magazine, will receive this year’s Lawrence Minard Editor Award from the Loeb Foundation, while Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Both will receive their awards on June 28 at a dinner in New York when the rest of the Loeb winners will be announced.

The Minard Editor Award is conferred by the final judges to honor excellence in business journalism editing. The award recognizes the career contributions of a business editor whose work does not receive a byline or whose face does not appear on the air for the work covered.

The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes an individual whose career exemplifies the consistent and superior insight and professional skills necessary to further the understanding of business, financial and economic issues.

Gilman works with Fortune managing editor Andy Serwer to oversee all edit content at the magazine.

Before assuming this position, Gilman was managing editor of FSB: Fortune Small Business. He also edited the Small Business edition of Fortune a special edit section launched in 1997 to target managers and directors of small businesses.

Before joining Fortune, Gilman was business editor at Newsweek, where his staff won two Gerald Loeb awards. He also conceived and launched Computer & The Family (now titled E-Life), Newsweek’s annual technology magazine.

Prior to that, Gilman worked as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and as assistant business editor at The Boston Globe, where he oversaw the Sunday business section. He was also the Globe’s personal finance columnist for two years.

Post columnist Pearlstein writes on business and economy issues — from national economic policy to economic development in the Washington area. He received a Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for his commentary.

He started out in journalism at the Concord Monitor and the Foster’s Daily Democrat, in New Hampshire. He was the founding publisher and editor of The Boston Observer, a monthly journal of liberal opinion, and was a senior editor at Inc. magazine for two years.

Pearlstein then joined The Washington Post, where he has served as deputy business editor. Pearlstein has also worked as a television news reporter at Boston’s public television station, WGBH-TV.

Last year’s winners were Alix Freedman of The Wall Street Journal for the Minard Award and Walt Bogdanich of the New York Times for the Lifetime Achievement Award.