2016 Gerald Loeb Award Finalists Announced

The finalists for the 2016 Gerald Loeb Awards—which celebrate the best of business journalism—have been announced. The winners will be unveiled at the Loeb Awards banquet Tuesday, June 28, at Capitale. The following finalists were chosen from more than 450 entries. Good luck to all. Audio Category Finalists Dana Wolfe, John Donvan, Robert Rosenkranz, Clea Conner Chang, Kris Kamikawa, Alison Russell, Amy Krafft, Adelaide Mandeville, Lia Matthow, Shea O’Meara, Taylor Quimby, Rob Christiansen, Damon Whittemore, and Katie Kemple for “Central Banks Can Print Prosperity” – Intelligence Squared U.S. Rebecca Plevin for “Navigating the Costly World of Health Care” – KPCC Chris Arnold, Uri Berliner, Neal Carruth, Lori Todd, and Heidi Glenn for “Your Money and Your Life” – NPR Colleen DeBaise, Sue Williams, Victoria Wang, Nusha Balyan, Sam Shinn, and Michelle Ciotta for “Succeeding as a Woman in Tech – Shaan Kandawalla, Melody McCloskey, Amy Sheng” – The Story Exchange Beat Reporting Category Finalists Dan Murtaugh, Lynn Doan, Harry R. Weber, and David Wethe for “The Shale Boom Blows Up” – Bloomberg News Jenny Deam for “Healthcare Reporting” – Houston Chronicle Paul Kiel, Annie Waldman, and Al Shaw for “The Color of Debt” – ProPublica John Carreyrou, Michael Siconolfi, and Christopher Weaver for “Testing Theranos” – The Wall Street Journal Breaking News Category Finalists David McLaughlin, Todd Shields, Gerry Smith, Lucas Shaw, Alex Sherman, and Ed Hammond for “Cable Cut” – Bloomberg News Kavita Kumar, Adam Belz, Mike Hughlett, Joe Carlson, and Kristen Leigh Painter for “Target Exits Canada” – Minneapolis Star Tribune Jason Del Rey, Kurt Wagner, and Kara Swisher for “Jack Dorsey’s Third Act” – Re/code John Hilsenrath, Ben Leubsdorf, Greg Ip, Sudeep Reddy, Josh Zumbrun, Jeffrey Sparshott, Patricia Minczeski, Martin Burch, Elliot Bentley and Rachel Louise Ensign for “Fed Rate Increase” – The Wall Street Journal David Benoit, Jacob Bunge, Dana Cimilluca, Dana Mattioli, and Dennis K. Berman for “Inside the Dow-DuPont Merger” – The Wall Street Journal Commentary Category Finalists Peter Coy and Dimitra Kessenides for “‘Opening Remarks’ Columns” – Bloomberg Businessweek Michael Hiltzik for “The Economy Hub” – Los Angeles Times Joe Nocera for “Commentary from Joe Nocera” – The New York Times James B. Stewart for “Inside the Boardroom” – The New York Times Matt O’Brien for “International Turbulence” – The Washington Post Explanatory Category Finalists Paul Ford for “Code: An Essay” – Bloomberg Businessweek Ellen Gabler for “Hidden Errors” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld for “Inside Amazon” – The New York Times Michael Grabell and Howard Berkes for “Insult to Injury: America’s Vanishing Worker Protections” – ProPublica & NPR Karen Bretell, David Gaffen, David Rohde, and Timothy Aeppel for “The Cannibalized Company” – Reuters Feature Category Finalists Jason Clenfield for “The Passport King” – Bloomberg Markets Laurie Segall, Erica Fink, Jason Farkas, Contessa Gayles, Greg Chen, Megan Pendergrass, and Daniel Ho for “Revenge Porn: The Cyberwar Against Women” – CNNMoney Jennifer Hiller for “Smell of Money: Oil and Ranching in South Texas” – San Antonio Express-News David Enrich for “The Unraveling of Tom Hayes” – The Wall Street Journal Chico Harlan for “A Region Left Behind: Lost Opportunity in the Deep South” – The Washington Post Images/Graphics/Interactives Category Finalists Wes Kosova for “Bloomberg: Interactive Graphics” – Bloomberg News Eleanor Bell, Will Fitzgibbon, and Chris Zubak-Skees for “Fatal Extraction” – The Center for Public Integrity & The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Amanda Cox, Gregor Aisch, Kevin Quealy, Matthew Bloch, Wilson Andrews, Josh Keller, Karen Yourish, Eric Buth, Nicholas Confessore and Sarah Cohen for “Making Data Visual” – The New York Times Annie Waldman and Sisi Wei for “Debt by Degrees” – ProPublica International Category Finalists Sasha Chavkin, Ben Hallman, Michael Hudson, Cecille Schilis-Gallego, Shane Shifflett, and Jocelyn Zuckerman for “Evicted & Abandoned” – The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists & The Huffington Post Ian Urbina for “The Outlaw Ocean” – The New York Times Stephen Grey, Audrey Kuzmin, Jack Stubbs, Roman Anin, and Elizabeth Piper for “Comrade Capitalism” – Reuters Tom Wright, Bradley Hope, Simon Clark, Mia Lamar, Justin Baer, Tom Di Fonzo and Paolo Bosonin for “Malaysia’s Missing Millions” – The Wall Street Journal Investigative Category Finalists Margie Mason, Martha Mendoza, Robin McDowell, and Esther Htusan for “Seafood from Slaves” – The Associated Press Peter Elkind for “Inside the Hack of the Century” – Fortune Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Michael Corkery, and Robert Gebeloff for “Beware the Fine Print” – The New York Times Mike Baker and Daniel Wagner for “The Mobile-Home Trap” – The Seattle Times, The Center for Public Integrity & BuzzFeed News Local Category Finalists Jeffrey Meitrodt for “Tragic Harvest” – Minneapolis Star Tribune Denise M. Bonilla, Carl MacGowan, Maura McDermott, and Deon J. Hampton for “Zombie Houses” – Newsday Fedor Zarkhin for “Unsettling Dust” – The Oregonian Whit Richardson and Steve Mistler for “Payday at the Mill” – Portland Press Herald & Maine Sunday Telegram Personal Finance Category Finalists Daniel Miller for “Selling Stardom” – Los Angeles Times Jillian Berman for “Student Debt Crisis Coverage” – MarketWatch Donna Rosato, Kate Santichen, Alexandra Mondalek, and Shayla Hunter for “Aging’s Costliest Challenge” – MONEY Magazine Morgan Housel for “Morgan Housel Columns” – The Wall Street Journal & The Motley Fool Video Category Finalists Pamela McClintock and Kim Masters for “Studio Chiefs Unleashed: 6 Top Execs Spar Over Gender Pay, Sony Hack and ‘Star Wars’ Box Office” – The Hollywood Reporter Jennifer Gollan, David Ritsher, Amanda Pike, Fernando Diaz, Richard Coolidge, and Sara Just for “Are Bakken Oil Field Workers Dying for Cheap Gas?” – Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting & PBS NewsHour Sharyl Attkisson, Kim Skeen, Batt Humphreys, Bryan Barr, Lance Ing, and Johnalynn Holland for “Taxpayer Beware: Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson” – Sinclair Broadcast Group Robert Libetti, Todd Cross and Lucette Lagnado for “The Double-Mastectomy Rebellion” – The Wall Street Journal Joanna Stern for “Joanna Stern’s Videos” – The Wall Street Journal

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