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WSJ ME Thomson praises Loeb winner Seib

Robert Thomson, the managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following praise for Gerald Seib, who won a Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award on Monday.

Thomson wrote:

Our colleague Jerry Seib has won a noteworthy honor, the 2012 Loeb Lifetime Achievement award, which was announced this morning, along with eight Loeb award finalists from Dow Jones, which led the distinguished field by some distance. It should also be noted that this is not a prize presentiment of an early retirement but a platform for even greater achievement by Jerry.

This particular honor recognizes the insight, authority and depth of Jerry’s work over more than three decades (that is, nearly 3,000 bylines) at the Journal. It also lauds his peerless economic and business insight, and an ability to explain the recondite sinuosities of Washington compellingly to a broad audience. Along the way, Jerry has become known for integrity, fairness and objectivity, traits rather preternatural within the Beltway.

Furthermore, he has been a leader and mentor for many Journal journalists, past and present (and future). As Alan Murray wrote in one of the numerous letters of support we received for his nomination: “Jerry has become a model of the very best in modern journalism…He is a model for us all.”

Please join me in, verbally, toasting Jerry, who represents the very best of the Journal journalism.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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