Grant to receive lifetime Loeb; Blumenstein to receive Minard award

The recipients of the Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lawrence Minard Editor Award were announced Thursday by the G. and R. Loeb Foundation Inc. and the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

The 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient is James Grant, founder and editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer.

This annual 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.

Rebecca Blumenstein, deputy editor-in-chief at The Wall Street Journal, will receive the 2015 Lawrence Minard Editor Award, named in memory of Laury Minard, founding editor of Forbes Global and a former final judge for the Loeb Awards.

This award honors excellence in business, financial and economic journalism editing, and recognizes an editor whose work does not receive a byline or whose face does not appear on-air for the work covered.

Grant and Blumenstein will receive their career achievement awards at the 2015 Gerald Loeb Awards banquet and celebration on Tuesday, June 23, 2015, at Capitale in New York City. Winners in the 11 competition categories will also be announced during the banquet.

The banquet and celebration is attended by the most influential journalists, publishers and producers in the nation.