Sloan to receive Bell Award

Business journalist Allan Sloan will receive the Elliott V. Bell Award from the New York Financial Writers Association at its annual dinner next month.

The award is named for a former BusinessWeek editor who was one of the founders of the organization, and it recognizes a person’s long-term contributions to financial journalism.

Previous winners include Paul Steiger of The Wall Street Journal, Diana Henriques of The New York Times, Jane Bryant Quinn of Newsweek, Alan Abelson of Barron’s and Steve Shepard of BusinessWeek.

Sloan is currently a senior editor at large for Fortune magazine. He joined Fortune in July 2007. He was previously Newsweek’s Wall Street editor.

Sloan is a seven-time winner of the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award, business journalism’s highest honor, and has also won numerous awards and honors during his 35-year business journalism career. In 2001, he received both the Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award and the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

Prior to his 12-year run at Newsweek, Sloan was a columnist at Newsday and also held positions at Forbes and Money, among other titles. His current Fortune columns can be seen in the Washington Post.

He currently contributes to Public Radio International’s “Marketplace,” whose “Sloan Sessions” are broadcast Monday mornings, and frequently appears as a commentator on the PBS television program, “Nightly Business Report.”

Sloan received an M.S. from the Columbia Journalism School and a B.A. from Brooklyn College. A native of Brooklyn, Sloan currently resides in New Jersey with his wife. They have three grown children.

The awards dinner will be held June 18 at the Marriott Marquis in New York. For more information, see here.