The winners of the 1997 Loeb Awards in the six print categories of competition follow:
The winner in the large newspaper category (circulation of more than 400,000) is Bruce D. Butterfield for “Test by Fire: The Story of Malden Mills” in the Boston Globe.
The winners in the medium-size newspaper category (circulation between 150,000 and 400,000) are Cathy Taylor, Liz Pulliam and Elliot Blair Smith for their series of investigative reports on Comparator Systems Corp. in the Orange County Register and Melody Petersen, Rebecca Smith and Ricardo Sandoval for “PG & E Unplugged: Cutting Costs, Cutting Service” in the San Jose Mercury News (a tie).
The winner in the small newspaper category (circulation of less than 150,000) is Lynda V. Mapes for “River of No Return” in The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Wash.).
The winner in the magazine category is Mark Maremont with Jane Sasseen for “Abuse of Power” in Business Week.
The winner in the commentary category is Holman W. Jenkins Jr. for selected Business World columns in The Wall Street Journal.
The winner in the deadline/beat writing category is Scott Thurn for his coverage of the economy in the San Jose Mercury News.
New to the Loeb Awards this year are the broadcast media categories. The winners and finalists of the 1997 Loeb Awards in the three broadcast categories of competition follow:
The winner in the Network and Large Market Television category is Byron Harris for “On Dangerous Ground” for WFAA-TV (Dallas).
The winner in Other TV Markets is Antonio Valverde for “My First House” for KMEX-TV (Torrance, Calif).
The winner in the radio category is Sarah Gardner for “Bottomline Blues” for Marketplace-USC.
The winners of the 1998 Loeb Awards in the six print categories of competition follow:
Large Newspaper Category
The winner in the large newspaper category (circulation of more than 400,000) is Michael Siconolfi for “The Spin Desk,” his page one article on the practice of “spinning,” which revealed how investment banks allocate hot IPOs to the personal accounts of corporate executives in an apparent bid for business, in The Wall Street Journal.
Medium-Size Newspaper Category
The winner in the medium-size newspaper category (circulation between 150,000 and 400,000), is William Conroy, Nancy Shields, John T. Ward, Larry Arnold, Rick Linsk and Terri Somers for “House of Cards,” an investigative series which uncovered and unraveled one of the most massive real estate frauds in the state’s history, in the Asbury Park Press.
Small Newspaper Category
The winner in the small newspaper category (circulation of less than 150,000), is Amy Hetzner and Amy Baldwin for “Borrowing Trouble,” an investigative series detailing the state’s lending practices and how it affects the poor, in the Birmingham Post-Herald.
Magazines
The winner in the magazine category is Michael Mandel and Dean Foust for their “New Economy” package, which provided intuitive and on-target economic analysis, in BusinessWeek.
Commentary
The winner in the commentary category is Allan Sloan for selected commentaries, in Newsweek.
Deadline/Beat Writing
The winner in the deadline/beat writing category is Alix Freedman and Suein Hwang for their breakthrough coverage of the tobacco industry’s liability settlement, in The Wall Street Journal.
No awards were given this year in the competition’s broadcast categories.
The winners of the 1999 Loeb Awards in the print and broadcast media categories are as follows:
A. LARGE NEWSPAPER CATEGORY
The winner in the large newspaper category (circulation of more than 400,000) is Joel Rutchick for his series of stories uncovering lavish spending practices and suspect activities by the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority chief executive officer, in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
B. MEDIUM-SIZE NEWSPAPER CATEGORY
The winner in the medium-size newspaper category (circulation between 150,000 and 400,000) is Fred Schulte and Jenni Bergal for “Cosmetic Surgery: The Hidden Dangers,” a vivid and strikingly illustrated depiction on the hidden dangers of cosmetic surgery, in the Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).
C. SMALL NEWSPAPER CATEGORY
The winner in the small newspaper category (circulation of less than 150,000) is Jennifer Hieger and Bill Heisel, Jr. for “The Dairy Boom: Growth, Trouble and Transition,” an examination of the growing dairy industry and the implications for the community, in the Yakima Herald-Republic (Yakima, Wash.).
D. MAGAZINES
The winner in the magazine category is Shane Tritsch for “Bull Marketing,” which disclosed the miscalculations in the reported stock performance of the Beardstown Ladies investment club, in Chicago Magazine.
E. COMMENTARY
The winner in the commentary category is Walter S. Mossberg for “Personal Technology” columns in The Wall Street Journal.
F. DEADLINE/BEAT WRITING
The winner in the deadline/beat writing category is The New York Times staff for their coverage of the near collapse of Long-Term Capital Management.
G. NETWORK AND LARGE MARKET TV
The winner in the network and large market TV category is Mike Wallace and Walt Bogdanich for their investigative piece on the international pharmaceutical industry, for CBS News, 60 Minutes.
H. RADIO
The winner in the Radio category is Karen Tofte and team for “The World Turned Upside Down,” on Minnesota Public Radio.
The winners and finalists of the 2000 Loeb Awards in the print and broadcast media categories are as follows:
A. LARGE NEWSPAPER CATEGORY
The winner in the large newspaper category (circulation of more than 400,000) is Ellen E. Schultz for her series in the Wall Street Journal on cash-balance pension plans that makes a difficult and important topic comprehensible to readers while leading to government scrutiny and worker activism.
Also nominated as finalists in this category are: Andrea Gerlin for her series of articles on medical errors in the hospital care business, in the Philadelphia Inquirer; David Willman, for his investigative reporting into the dangerous side effects of diabetes drug Rezulin, in the Los Angeles Times; Gina Kolata and Kurt Eichenwald, for reporting that revealed how pharmaceutical companies secretly paid doctors to test drugs on patients, in the New York Times; and Susan Carey, Scott McCartney and William Carley, for their articles on the airline industry, in the Wall Street Journal.
B. MEDIUM-SIZE NEWSPAPER CATEGORY
The winner in the medium-size newspaper category (circulation between 150,000 and 400,000), is Alison Young, Jeffrey Taylor, and Janet Fix for their series of articles examining a deadly nationwide listeria outbreak and the resulting recall and epidemiological investigation, in the Detroit Free-Press.
Also nominated as finalists in this category are: Sam Roe for “Deadly Alliance: How Government and Industry Chose Weapons Over Workers,” a series documenting 50 years of misconduct by the American government and the beryllium industry in the production of metal used in nuclear bombs, in the Toledo Blade; Steve Massey and Mackenzie Carpenter, of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, for their series profiling the downfall of Allegheny General Hospital; and Steve Everly of the Kansas City Star, for his reporting on defective water heaters that impacted thousands of consumers and spurred manufacturers to take responsibility.
C: SMALL NEWSPAPER CATEGORY
The winner in the small newspaper category (circulation of less than 150,000), is Harris Meyer for “The Doctor Will Sell You Now,” an in-depth examination of the ethical implications of physicians selling health-related products to their patients through multi-level marketing arrangements, in the New Times (Hollywood, FL).
Also nominated as finalists in this category are: Rob Perez for his series of stories documenting pricing differences for consumers in Hawaii and other West Coast cities, in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin; and Lance Williams for his stories examining an incidence of tainted sutures that caused health problems nationwide, in the San Francisco Examiner.
D: MAGAZINES
The winner in the magazine category is Jeff Blyskal for “Cheap Car Parts Can Cost You a Bundle,” an article in Consumer Reports highlighting a major problem in the automotive industry that added valuable data and shed light on a confusing topic for consumers.
Also nominated as finalists in this category are: Joshua Ramo for “The Three Marketeers,” a profile of Alan Greenspan, Richard Rubin, and Larry Summers, in Time Magazine; Gary Weiss for “Scandal on Wall Street,” an in-depth investigation of widespread trading irregularities at the American Stock Exchange, in Business Week; and Richard Behar for “The Fairy Tale is Over for the Kingdom of Brunei,” a portrait of that country’s royal family, in Fortune Magazine.
E: COMMENTARY
The winner in the commentary category is David Ignatius for his powerful and provocative columns on business and technology, in the Washington Post.
Also nominated as finalists in this category are: Amity Shlaes for editorials on taxes, in the Wall Street Journal; Joseph Nocera for his columns in Money Magazine; and Stephen Kiernan for editorials on improving air service to the Burlington, VT, area, in the Burlington Free Press.
F: DEADLINE/BEAT WRITING
The winner in the deadline/beat writing category is Ianthe Dugan for her reporting on the business of day trading, in the Washington Post. An honorable mention was awarded to Lawrence Messina for his reporting on the Federal takeover of the First National Bank of Keystone, in the Charleston Gazette (Charleston, West Virginia).
Also nominated as finalists in this category are: Jay Hancock for his reporting on the widespread practice and impact of providing state grants and subsidies to corporations, in the Baltimore Sun; Greg Schneider, also of the Baltimore Sun, for his series on the making of the F-22 fighter plane; and Monica Langley, for her articles on charitable giving and tax matters, in the Wall Street Journal.
G: NETWORK AND LARGE MARKET TV
The winner in the network and large market TV category is Brian Gaffney, Lea Thompson and team for their in-depth series on the practices of the sweepstakes industry, for Dateline NBC.
Also named as finalists in this category are: Iris Adler for her compelling documentation of the closing of a plant in Wilton, ME, for New England Cable News; Jack Cloherty and Mike Taibbi for “Unhappy Returns,” for Dateline NBC; Chris Farrell, Joe Garbarino and team for their personal finance series “Right on the Money,” for Twin Cities Public Television.
H: RADIO
The winner in the Radio category is Carl Goldstein and team for “Minnesota in the Dot Com Age,” on Minnesota Public Radio.
2001 Winners
CATEGORY A: LARGE NEWSPAPERS
“The Body Brokers” by William Heisel, Mark Katches and Ronald Campbell, The Orange County Register
CATEGORY B: MEDIUM NEWSPAPERS
“Government Inc.” by Robert Sargent, Ramsey Campbell, Jim Leusner and Sean Holton, The Orlando Sentinel
CATEGORY C: SMALL NEWSPAPERS
“Porn in the USA” by Bruce Rushton, The Riverfront Times (St. Louis, MO)
CATEGORY D: MAGAZINES
“AOL’s Rough Riders” by Gary Rivlin, The Industry Standard
CATEGORY E: COMMENTARY
“Floyd Norris Columns” by Floyd Norris, The New York Times
CATEGORY F: DEADLINE OR BEAT WRITING
“Juice Squeeze” by Rebecca Smith, The Wall Street Journal
CATEGORY G: TELEVISION
“The Paper Chase” by Lynne Dale, John Larson, Dateline NBC – NBC News
CATEGORY H: RADIO
“The 100 Greatest Events in the History of the Automotive Industry” by Ed Wallace, KLIF-AM (Dallas, TX)
2002 Winners
CATEGORY A: LARGE NEWSPAPERS
“Uninformed Consent” by Duff Wilson and David Heath, The Seattle Times
CATEGORY B: MEDIUM NEWSPAPERS
“Unequal Opportunity” by Jeffrey Meitrodt, Mark Schleifstein, Pamela Coyle and Ronette King, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, LA)
1. “Pushed Aside”
2. “Exploiting Opportunity”
3. “Insecure Future”
4. “Breaking Barriers”
5. “Through the Cracks”
6. “Ready-Mix DBE”
7. “Numbers Game”
CATEGORY C: SMALL NEWSPAPERS
“Foal Deaths” by Janet Patton, Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader
CATEGORY D: MAGAZINES
“The Numbers Game, Why Earnings Are Too Rosy, Confused About Earnings” by David Henry and Nanette Byrnes, BusinessWeek
CATEGORY E: COMMENTARY
“Market Watch” by Gretchen Morgenson, The New York Times
CATEGORY F: DEADLINE OR BEAT WRITING
“Enron: The Demise of a Giant” by Rebecca Smith and John Emshwiller, The Wall Street Journal
CATEGORY G: NEWS OR WIRE SERVICE
“Muddy Markets” by Jonathan Berr, Adam Levy, Peter Robison, Russell Hubbard and Neil Roland, Bloomberg News
1. “Raytheon Briefed Analysts Without Telling the Public”
2. “Raytheon SEC Probe May Test New Disclosure Rules, Analysts Say”
3. “Enron CEO Skilling Takes Company in New Directions”
4. “U.S. Earnings Reports Miss Point — How Much Did Company Earn?”
5. “Enron Investors Say Lay Must Deliver on Earnings Transparency”
6. “SEC to Charge Company With Misleading `Pro Formas’”
7. “SEC to File First Fair Disclosure Case, Pitt Says”
CATEGORY H AND I: TELEVISION
“The Money Trail” by Allan Dodds Frank and Lisa Slow, Cable News Network/CNNfn
2003 Winners
CATEGORY A: LARGE NEWSPAPERS
“AOL’s Advertising Deals” by Alec Klein, The Washington Post
CATEGORY B: MEDIUM NEWSPAPERS
“The CEO and His Church” by Deborah O’Neil and Jeff Harrington, St. Petersburg (FL) Times
CATEGORY C: SMALL NEWSPAPERS
“A License to Steal” by Eric Eyre and Scott Finn, The Charleston (WV) Gazette
CATEGORY D: MAGAZINES
“Nationalities of Convenience” by Hal Lux, Institutional Investor
CATEGORY E: COMMENTARY
“Auto Industry Commentary” by Jerry Flint, Forbes
CATEGORY F: DEADLINE WRITING
“WorldCom’s Whirlwind Demise” by Rebecca Blumenstein, Gregory Zuckerman, Jared Sandberg, Shawn Young, Susan Pulliam, Deborah Solomon and Carrick Mollenkamp, The Wall Street Journal
CATEGORY G: BEAT WRITING
“Inside the S.E.C.” by Stephen Labaton, The New York Times
CATEGORY H: NEWS SERVICES OR ONLINE CONTENT
“SuperModels” by Jon D. Markman, CNBC on MSN Money
CATEGORY I: TELEVISION SHORT FORM
“Enron Investigation” by Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz, Chris Vlasto, Jill Rackmill, David Scott, Gerilyn Curtin and Simon Surowicz, ABC News
CATEGORY J: TELEVISION LONG FORM
“La Oroya, City of Lead” by Craig Cheatham, Mark Hadler and Andrea Torrence, KMOV-TV (CBS affiliate, St. Louis, MO)
2004 Winners
CATEGORY A: LARGE NEWSPAPERS
“Big Green” by David Ottaway and Joe Stephens, The Washington Post
1. “Inside the Nature Conservancy”
2. “A House in the Woods”
3. “When Conservation and Business Fail to Mix“
CATEGORY B: MEDIUM NEWSPAPERS
“Drugging the Poor” by Fred Schulte, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
CATEGORY C: SMALL NEWSPAPERS
“Everybody at Risk” by Kate Long, The Charleston Gazette
1. “On The Edge”
2. “We Sink Or Swim With Everyone Else”
3. “Insurance: With & Without”
4. “Cancel The Discount?”
5. “Hospital Sticker Shock”
6. “We Thought We Had Insurance“
CATEGORY D: MAGAZINES
“Is Your Job Next? / The Rise of India” by Aaron Bernstein, Pete Engardio and Manjeet Kripalani, BusinessWeek
1. “Is Your Job Next?”
2. “The Rise Of India“
CATEGORY E: COMMENTARY
“Golden State” by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times
CATEGORY F: DEADLINE WRITING
“The Day Grasso Quit as NYSE Chief” by Susanne Craig, Ianthe Jeanne Dugan, Theo Francis and Kate Kelly, The Wall Street Journal
1. “Grasso Quits NYSE Amid Pay Furor”
2. “Tight-Knit Culture Will Help Shape Big Board’s Future”
3. “Weakened NYSE Must Face Challenges”
4. “How Much Severance Pay Is Enough?“
CATEGORY G: BEAT WRITING
“A Spotlight on Boeing’s Legal and Ethical Scandals” by J. Lynn Lunsford, Andy Pasztor and Anne Marie Squeo, The Wall Street Journal
1. “U. S. Probes Whether Boeing Misused a Rival’s Documents”
2. “Mergers Make It Tougher to Punish Federal Contractors”
3. “Boeing Is Punished in Rocket Case”
4. “Boeing’s Plan to Smooth Bumps Of Jet Market Hits Turbulence”
5. “Air Force Ex-Official Had Ties To Boeing During Contract Talks”
6. “Boeing CEO Condit Resigns In Shake-Up at Aerospace Titan”
7. “How Two Officials Got Caught By Pentagon’s Revolving Door“
CATEGORY H: NEWS SERVICES OR ONLINE CONTENT
“The Flimflam Man” by Adrian Cox, David Evans and Abhay Singh, Bloomberg News
“Risky Rx” by Chris Adams and Alison Young, Knight Ridder Washington Bureau
CATEGORY I: SHORT FORM TELEVISION
“The Jobless Recovery” by Doug Adams, Christiana Arvelis, Donna Bass, Steve Capus, Joo Lee, Karen Nye, Albert Oetgen, Felicia Patinkin, Charles Schaeffer, Nikki Stamos and Anne Thompson, NBC Nightly News
CATEGORY J: LONG FORM TELEVISION
“Imported from India” by Rome Hartman and Lesley Stahl, CBS News “60 Minutes”
2005 Winners
CATEGORY A: LARGE NEWSPAPERS
“Death on the Tracks” by Walt Bogdanich, The New York Times
CATEGORY B: MEDIUM NEWSPAPERS
“Danger Overhead: Crushed Roofs” by Bill Vlasic and Jeff Plungis, The Detroit News
1. “Thousands killed, hurt as auto roofs collapse”
2. “Seat belts not enough to save lives in rollovers”
3. “Feds, Big Three gird for roof showdown“
CATEGORY C: SMALL NEWSPAPERS
“The China Challenge” by Craig Troianello, Yakima (WA) Herald-Republic
1. “Apples to Apples”
2. “Apples feed economy”
3. “Peering into the future”
4. “Meeting and competing“
CATEGORY D: MAGAZINES
“The Toll of a New Machine” by Charles Fishman, Fast Company
“Why We’re Losing the War on Cancer (and How to Win It)” by Clifton Leaf, Fortune
CATEGORY E: COMMENTARY
“Cracks in Fannie Mae’s Foundation” by Peter Eavis, TheStreet.com
1. “Fannie’s Fearsome New Year Challenge”
2. “Freddie Flap Highlights Fannie Flaw”
3. “A New Reason to Fret About Fannie”
4. “Fannie Flap Points to Options Grants”
5. “Falcon Has Landed at Fannie Mae”
6. “Fannie Probe Turns to Derivatives”
7. “Fannie Fight Ready to Get Nastier“
CATEGORY F: DEADLINE WRITING
“End of an Era” by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Steve Lohr, David Barboza, Gary Rivlin and John Markoff,The New York Times
CATEGORY G: BEAT WRITING
“The Short Life of ‘Lifetime’ Health-Care Benefits” by Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Francis,The Wall Street Journal
CATEGORY H: NEWS SERVICES OR ONLINE CONTENT
“Exposing Small-Cap Fraud” by Carol S. Remond, Dow Jones Newswires
CATEGORY I: TELEVISION DEADLINE
“Money for Nothing?” by Chris Cuomo, Shelley Ross, Bob Lange, Thomas Berman and Jack Pyle, ABC News: Primetime
CATEGORY J: TELEVISION ENTERPRISE
No finalists were announced in the television enterprise category. The judging committee has chosen not to select a Loeb winner in the television enterprise category for 2005.
2006 Winners
CATEGORY A: LARGE NEWSPAPERS
“Borrower Beware” by Ann Hardie, Carrie Teegardin and Alan Judd, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
CATEGORY B: MEDIUM NEWSPAPERS
There was one winner and one honorable mention in the medium newspapers category.
Winner: “Ohio Rare Coin Funds” by Christopher Kirkpatrick, Joshua Boak, Steve Eder, Jim Drew and Mike Wilkinson,The Blade (Toledo, Ohio)
Honorable Mention: “Selling Drug Secrets” by Luke Timmerman and David Heath,The Seattle Times
CATEGORY C: SMALL NEWSPAPERS
Sam Kennedy and Christina Gostomski of The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) for “School’s Pursuit of Profit Leaves Students Behind”
CATEGORY D: MAGAZINES
Carol Loomis of Fortune for “Why Carly’s Big Bet Is Failing, How the HP Board KO’d Carly”
CATEGORY E: COMMENTARY
There were two winners in the commentary category.
Robert L. Pollock of The Wall Street Journal for “Review and Outlook: Kianna’s Law”
Steven Pearlstein of The Washington Post for “Business and Economics Columns”
CATEGORY F: DEADLINE WRITING
Maureen Milford, Ted Griffith, Luladey B. Tadesse, Robin Brown, Gary Soulsman, Christopher Yasiejko, Michele Besso, Steven Church, Jeff Montgomery and Peter Bothum of The News Journal (New Castle, Del.) for “Sale of MBNA”
CATEGORY G: BEAT WRITING
Geeta Anand of The Wall Street Journal for “The Most Expensive Drugs and How They Came to Be”
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“Through Charities, Drug Makers Help People — and Themselves”
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“As Biotech Drug Prices Surge, U.S. Is Hunting for a Solution”
CATEGORY H: NEWS SERVICES OR ONLINE CONTENT
Frank Bass, Dirk Lammers and Larry Margasak of The Associated Press for “Lax Loans”
CATEGORY I: TELEVISION DEADLINE
Anne Thompson, Doug Adams, Liz Brown, Carl Sears, Kelly Venardos, Joo Lee, Rick Brown, Katie Ernst, Rich Dubroff, Doug Stoddart, Chuck Schaeffer, Mario Garcia, Meaghan Rady, Genevieve MichelBryan, Jill Silvestri, Chris Scholl, Sharon Hoffman, Albert Oetgen and John Reiss of NBC Nightly News for “The Katrina Effect”
CATEGORY J: TELEVISION ENTERPRISE
There was one winner and one honorable mention in the television enterprise category.
Winner: Paul Solman, Lee Koromvokis, Jeffrey Klein, Jacob Klein and Joanne Elgart Jennings of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer for “China Rising”
Honorable Mention: Byron Harris, Kraig Kirchem and Mark Smith of WFAA-TV (Dallas, Texas) for “Learning the Hard Way”
BUSINESS BOOK
James B. Stewart for “DisneyWar” from Simon & Schuster
2007 Winners
CATEGORY A: LARGE NEWSPAPERS
“The Secretive Backdating of Option Awards for Corporate Executives” by Charles Forelle, James Bandler, Mark Maremont and Steve Stecklow, The Wall Street Journal
1. The Perfect Payday
2. Open Spigot, Bosses’ Pay: How Stock Options Became Part of the Problem
3. Matter of Timing, Five More COmpanies Show Questionable Options Pattern
4. Dating Game, Stock-Options Criminal Charge: Slush Fund and Fake Employees
5. Executive Retreat, Stock-Options Scandal Fugitive Puts Roots Down in Namibia
6. Bad Options, How a Giant Insurer Decided to Oust Hugely Successful CEO
7. Executive Pay: The 9/11 Factor
CATEGORY B: MEDIUM NEWSPAPERS
“Crab Factory” by Chiaki Kawajiri, Gady A. Epstein and Stephanie Desmon, The Baltimore Sun
CATEGORY C: SMALL NEWSPAPERS
“The Great Empire Zone Giveaway” by Mike McAndrew and Michelle Breidenbach, The Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.)
CATEGORY D: MAGAZINES
“How Many Lightbulbs Does It Take to Change the World? One.” by Charles Fishman, Fast Company
CATEGORY E: COMMENTARY
“Steve Bailey Downtown” by Steve Bailey, The Boston Globe
CATEGORY F: DEADLINE WRITING
“The Implosion of a Highflying Hedge Fund” by Ann Davis, Henny Sender and Gregory Zuckerman, The Wall Street Journal
CATEGORY G: BEAT WRITING
“Radio Shack CEO’s Resume in Question” by Heather Landy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
CATEGORY H: NEWS SERVICES OR ONLINE CONTENT
“Who Are the Short Sellers?” by Alistair Barr, MarketWatch
CATEGORY I: FEATURE WRITING
“Rewriting the Social Contract” by Louis Uchitelle, The New York Times
CATEGORY J: TELEVISION DAILY
“Trophy” by Jim Popkin, Lisa Myers, Albert Oetgen, Doug Adams, Adam Cirlasky and Rich Gardella, NBC News
CATEGORY K: TELEVISION ENTERPRISE
“The Mother of All Heists” by Jeff Fager, Steve Kroft, Andy Court, Keith Sharman, Patti Hassler and Daniel J. Glucksman, CBS News 60 Minutes
CATEGORY L: BUSINESS BOOK
“The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More” by Chris Anderson, Hyperion
2008 Winners
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CATEGORY A: LARGE NEWSPAPERS “Toxic Pipeline,” by Walt Bogdanich, Jake Hooker, David Barboza and Andrew W. Lehern, The New York Times |
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CATEGORY B: MEDIUM NEWSPAPERS “Sold A Nightmare,” by Binyamin Appelbaum, Lisa Hammersly Munn, Ted Mellnik, Peter St. Onge and Liz Chandler, TheCharlotte (N.C.) Observer |
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CATEGORY C: SMALL NEWSPAPERS “The China Effect,” by Tony Bartelme, The Post and Courier (Charleston, S.C.) |
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CATEGORY D: MAGAZINES “House of Junk,” by Allan Sloan, Fortune Honorable Mention: “In Nature’s Casino,” by Michael Lewis, The New York Times Magazine |
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CATEGORY E: COMMENTARY “Talking Business,” by Joe Nocera, The New York Times Honorable Mention: “Business Columnist,” by Daniel Howes, The Detroit News |
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CATEGORY F: BREAKING NEWS “The Fall of E. Stanley O’Neal at Merrill Lynch,” by Jenny Anderson and Landon Thomas Jr., The New York Times Honorable Mention: “A New U.S. Auto Industry,” by Katie Merx, Tim Higgins, Tom Walsh, Mark Phelan, Susan Tompor, Sarah A. Webster, Katherine Yung and Joe Guy Collier, Detroit Free Press |
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CATEGORY G: BEAT WRITING “Breakdown at Bear Stearns,” by Kate Kelly, Serena Ng, Susanne Craig and David Reilly, The Wall Street Journal Honorable Mention: “Golden Opportunities,” by Charles Duhigg, The New York Times |
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CATEGORY H: NEWS SERVICES “Wall Street’s Faustian Bargain,” by Mark Pittman, Bob Ivry and Kathleen M. Howley, Bloomberg News |
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CATEGORY I: FEATURE WRITING “Message in a Bottle,” by Charles Fishman, Fast Company [Added from the magazine category] |
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CATEGORY J: ONLINE “Keeping Up With The Wangs,” by Art Lenehan, Anh Ly and Suzanne McGee, MSN Money |
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CATEGORY K: TELEVISION DAILY “India’s Promise,” by Steve Washington, Darren Gersh, Dana Greenspon and Sanjay Jha, Nightly Business Report |
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CATEGORY L: TELEVISION ENTERPRISE “Money for Nothing,” by Byron Harris, Mark Smith and Kraig Kirchem, WFAA-TV |
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CATEGORY M: BUSINESS BOOK Mine’s Bigger: Tom Perkins and the Making of the Greatest Sailing Machine Ever Built by David A. Kaplan (William Morrow) |
2009 Winners
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CATEGORY A: LARGE NEWSPAPERS “The Reckoning,” by Gretchen Morgenson, Peter S. Goodman, Charles Duhigg, Carter Dougherty, Eric Dash, Julie Creswell, Jo Becker, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Stephen Labaton, The New York Times |
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CATEGORY B: MEDIUM & SMALL NEWSPAPERS “Borrowers Betrayed,” by Jack Dolan, Matthew Haggman and Rob Barry, The Miami Herald Honorable Mention: “The Cruelest Cuts,” by Ames Alexander, Peter St. Onge, Franco Ordoñez, Kerry Hall and Ted Mellnik, The Charlotte Observer |
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CATEGORY C: MAGAZINES “Obamanomics,” by David Leonhardt, The New York Times Magazine |
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CATEGORY D: COMMENTARY “Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,” by Brian M. Carney, The Wall Street Journal |
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CATEGORY E: BREAKING NEWS “The Day That Changed Wall Street,” by Carrick Mollenkamp, Susanne Craig, Serena Ng, Aaron Lucchetti, Matthew Karnitschnig, Dan Fitzpatrick, Deborah Solomon, Dennis K. Berman, Liam Pleven, Peter Lattman and Annelena Lobb, The Wall Street Journal |
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CATEGORY F: BEAT WRITING “The Fall of Wachovia,” by Rick Rothacker, The Charlotte Observer “Wall Street,” by Gretchen Morgenson, The New York Times |
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CATEGORY G: NEWS SERVICES “Broken Promises,” by William Selway and Martin Z. Braun, Bloomberg News |
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CATEGORY H: FEATURE WRITING “The End,” by Michael Lewis, Condé Nast Portfolio |
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CATEGORY I: ONLINE “Middle Class Crunch,” by Art Lenehan, Peggy Collins, Aaron Whallon, Anh Ly, Elizabeth Daza, Joe Farro, Sean Enzwiler, Rachel Elson, Mark Baumgartner, Lauren Barack, Richard Conniff and Judi Hasson, MSN Money |
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CATEGORY J: TELEVISION BREAKING NEWS “Economic Crisis: House of Cards,” by Steve Kroft, Jennifer MacDonald and L. Franklin Devine, CBS News/60 Minutes |
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CATEGORY K: TELEVISION ENTERPRISE “The Wasteland,” by Scott Pelley, Solly Granatstein and Nicole Young, CBS News/60 Minutes |
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CATEGORY L: BUSINESS BOOK “Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash,” by Charles R. Morris, Public Affairs |
2010 Winners
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CATEGORY A: LARGE NEWSPAPERS “Food Safety,” by Michael Moss and Andrew Martin, The New York Times |
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CATEGORY B: MEDIUM & SMALL NEWSPAPERS “Keys to the Kingdom: How State Regulators Enabled a $7 Billion Ponzi Scheme,” by Michael Sallah, Rob Barry and Lucy Komisar, The Miami Herald |
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CATEGORY C: MAGAZINES “How Bernie Did It,” by James Bandler, Nicholas Varchaver and Doris Burke, Fortune Magazine |
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CATEGORY D: COMMENTARY “Capitalist Fools and Wall Street’s Toxic Message,” by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Vanity Fair |
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CATEGORY E: BREAKING NEWS Bankruptcy,” by Christine Tierney, David Shepardson and Gordon Trowbridge, The Detroit News |
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CATEGORY F: BEAT WRITING “The Toyota Recall,” by Ralph Vartabedian and Ken Bensinger, Los Angeles Times |
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CATEGORY G: NEWS SERVICE “Goldman, Moody’s and the Collapse of the American Economy,” by Greg Gordon, Kevin G. Hall and Chris Adams, McClatchy Newspapers |
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CATEGORY H: FEATURE WRITING “Wall Street on the Tundra,” by Michael Lewis, Vanity Fair |
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CATEGORY I: ONLINE COMMENTARY AND BLOGGING “Pogue’s Posts,” by David Pogue, The New York Times |
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CATEGORY J: PERSONAL FINANCE “From Prison to the Pinnacle,” by Matthew Hathaway, Elizabethe Holland and Jim Gallagher, St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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CATEGORY K: TELEVISION BREAKING NEWS “The Madoff Scandal,” by Scott Cohn, Mary Thompson, Courtney Ford, Wally Griffith, Molly Mazilu, CNBC |
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CATEGORY L: TELEVISION ENTERPRISE “House of Cards,” by David Faber, Mitch Weitzner, James Jacoby, Jill Landes and Patrick Ahearn, CNBC Honorable Mention: “Black Money,” by Marlena Telvick, Lowell Bergman, Oriana Zill de Granados and Daniel Hirst, PBS Frontline |
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CATEGORY M: BUSINESS BOOK “Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System – and Themselves,” by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Penguin Group (USA) – Viking |
2011 Winners
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CATEGORY A: LARGE NEWSPAPERS “Deep Trouble,” by Ben Casselman, Russell Gold, Douglas A. Blackmon, Vanessa O’Connell, Alexandra Berzon and Ana Campoy, The Wall Street Journal |
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CATEGORY B: MEDIUM & SMALL NEWSPAPERS “Seniors for Sale,” by Michael J. Berens, The Seattle Times “Hounded — Debtors and the New Breed of Collectors,” by Chris Serres and Glenn Howatt, Minneapolis Star Tribune |
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CATEGORY C: MAGAZINES “End-of-Life Warning at $618,616 Makes Me Wonder Was It Worth It,” by Amanda Bennett and Charles R. Babcock, Bloomberg Businessweek |
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CATEGORY D: COMMENTARY “Paul Krugman Columns,” by Paul Krugman, The New York Times |
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CATEGORY E: BREAKING NEWS “Flash Crash,” by Tom Lauricella, Peter A. McKay, Scott Patterson, Jenny Strasburg, Robin Sidel, Carolyn Cui and Mary Pilon, The Wall Street Journal |
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CATEGORY F: BEAT REPORTING “Education Inc.,” by Daniel Golden, John Hechinger and John Lauerman, Bloomberg News |
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CATEGORY G: NEWS SERVICES “Profiting From Fallen Soldiers,” by David Evans, Bloomberg News |
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CATEGORY H: EXPLANATORY “Edifice Complex,” by David Nicklaus and Tim Logan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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CATEGORY I: ONLINE ENTERPRISE “What They Know,” by Julia Angwin, Emily Steel, Scott Thurm, Christina Tsuei, Paul Antonson, Jill Kirschenbaum, Jovi Juan, Andrew Garcia Phillips, Sarah Slobin, Susan McGregor, Tom McGinty and Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, The Wall Street Journal |
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CATEGORY J: BLOGGING “Liveblogging Yahoo Earnings Calls in 2010 (They’re Funny!),” by Kara Swisher, All Things Digital |
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CATEGORY K: PERSONAL FINANCE “Student Debt,” by Ron Lieber, The New York Times |
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CATEGORY L: TELEVISION ENTERPRISE “Remington Under Fire: A CNBC Investigation,” by Mitch Weitzner, Scott Cohn, Jeff Pohlman, Emily Bodenberg, Steven Banton and Gary Vandenbergh, CNBC |
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CATEGORY M: BUSINESS BOOKS “More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite” by Sebastian Mallaby, The Penguin Press |
2012 Winners
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CATEGORY A: LARGE NEWSPAPERS Ken Bensinger for “Wheels of Fortune” in Los Angeles Times |
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CATEGORY B: MEDIUM & SMALL NEWSPAPERS Raquel Rutledge, Rick Barrett, John Diedrich, Ben Poston and Mike de Sisti for “Shattered Trust” in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Spencer Soper and Scott Kraus for “Inside Amazon’s Warehouse” in The Morning Call |
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CATEGORY C: MAGAZINES Peter Elkind, Jennifer Reingold and Doris Burke for “Inside Pfizer’s Palace Coup” in Fortune |
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CATEGORY D: COMMENTARY Zanny Minton Beddoes, Edward Carr, John Peet, Patrick Foulis and John O’Sullivan for “Euro Zone” in The Economist |
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CATEGORY E: BREAKING NEWS Brent Snavely, Greg Gardner and Chrissie Thompson for “GM-UAW Contract Negotiations” in Detroit Free Press |
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CATEGORY F: BEAT REPORTING John Fauber for “‘Side Effects’ Beat Reporting” in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
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CATEGORY G: NEWS SERVICES Brian Grow, Kelly Carr, Laurence Fletcher, Nanette Byrnes, Matthew Bigg, Joshua Schneyer, Cynthia Johnston and Sara Ledwith for “Shell Games” in Reuters |
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CATEGORY H: EXPLANATORY Scott Pelley, Robert G. Anderson, Daniel Ruetenik, Robert J. Shattuck and Nicole Young for “The Next Housing Shock” on CBS News 60 Minutes |
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CATEGORY I: ONLINE ENTERPRISE Mark Maremont, Tom McGinty, Jon Keegan, Palani Kumanan, Sarah Slobin and Neil King Jr. for “Jet Tracker” for The Wall Street Journal |
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CATEGORY J: BLOGGING Felix Salmon for “Felix Salmon’s Blog” for Reuters |
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CATEGORY K: PERSONAL FINANCE Penelope Wang, Kim Clark and Lisa Gibbs for “‘Protecting Your Parents’ Series” in Money |
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CATEGORY L: TELEVISION ENTERPRISE Laura Sydell and Alex Blumberg for “When Patents Attack” on NPR and This American Life |
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CATEGORY M: BUSINESS BOOKS Walter Isaacson for “Steve Jobs” published by Simon & Schuster HONORABLE MENTION:
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