Loeb names lifetime achievement, Minard winners

The 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient from the 2014 Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism is James Flanigan, business and finance journalist for the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times.

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.

Flanigan started as a financial journalist at the New York Herald Tribune in 1963 – having joined that paper in 1957 while attending college. During 17 years with Forbes magazine, he served as bureau chief in Washington, Los Angeles, London and Houston and later in New York as assistant managing editor. His journalism has won numerous awards.

He has focused on every aspect of business and finance and examined in major articles the economies of countries stretching from Europe to Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.

John Brecher, executive editor for enterprise at Bloomberg News, will receive the 2014 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.

Brecher previously spent 20 years at The Wall Street Journal as a page one editor and as a wine columnist. He also worked for the Miami Herald for six years. He joined Bloomberg in 2011.

Flanigan and Brecher will receive their career achievement awards at the 2014 Gerald Loeb Awards banquet and celebration on Tuesday, June 24, 2014, at Capitale in New York City. Winners in the 14 competition categories will also be announced during the banquet.