2005 Gerald Loeb Awards Winners Announced by UCLA Anderson School of Management; Byron E. ``Barney'' Calame of The New York Times Receives Lifetime Achievement Award and Lawrence Minard Editor Award goes to Timothy K. Smith of Fortune.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Journalists from across the nation gathered tonight at New York City's Cipriani 42nd Street for the 2005 Gerald Loeb Awards Banquet, celebrating the best of business, financial and economic journalism. The Loeb Awards, considered the most prestigious honor in business journalism Business journalism is the branch of journalism that tracks, records, analyses and interprets the economic changes that take place in a society. It could include anything from personal finance, to business at the local market to the malls, to performance of well-known and , recognize those journalists whose contributions to the industry illuminate the world of business and finance for readers and viewers around the world. Bruce Willison, dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management UCLA Anderson School of Management is one of eleven professional schools at the University of California, Los Angeles. The school is consistently ranked among the country’s top-tier programs (currently #16 by US News and World Reporthttp://www.usnews. and chairman of the G. and R. Loeb Foundation, welcomed Loeb Awards honorees and their guests. Lou Dobbs Lou Dobbs (born September 24 1945), is the CNN anchor and managing editor for Lou Dobbs Tonight. He is also an editorial columnist and syndicated radio show host. Lou Dobbs Tonight attracts CNN's second-largest audience after Larry King Live , anchor and managing editor of CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight Lou Dobbs Tonight is an editorial and discussion program on CNN, anchored by journalist Lou Dobbs, who is also its managing editor. The hour-long show is aired live on evenings every weekday, and repeated later at night. " and a Loeb Awards final judge, served as the master of ceremonies. The Loeb Awards gives two special awards for career contributions, the Lifetime Achievement Award, which was given to Byron E. "Barney" Calame, public editor, The New York Times, and the Lawrence Minard Editor Award, which went to Timothy K. Smith, assistant managing editor, Fortune. In addition, there are 9 competition categories in which the winners were named at the banquet. Following is the list of 2005 Loeb Awards recipients, along with brief synopses of their award-winning work. Large Newspaper Winner Walt Bogdanich of The New York Times for "Death on the Tracks" Bogdanich tackles a little recognized problem of clear malfeasance The commission of an act that is unequivocally illegal or completely wrongful. Malfeasance is a comprehensive term used in both civil and Criminal Law to describe any act that is wrongful. on the part of railroads, using creative in-depth analysis of database records, combined with compelling human stories and court records from around the country, to demonstrate the huge failure of government to regulate a key industry. Medium Newspaper Winner Bill Vlasic and Jeff Plungis of The Detroit News for "Danger Overhead: Crushed Roofs" This three-part series examines a little-known auto safety hazard -- roofs that fail in rollover A graphic element in an application or on a Web page that changes its color or shape when the pointer is moved (rolled) over it. See JavaScript rollover. See also n-key rollover. accidents, documenting the human cost and making a compelling case that four-decade-old safety standards are inadequate and that automakers are fighting the development of tougher rules. Small Newspaper Winner Craig Troianello of Yakima (WA) Herald-Republic for "The China Challenge" Two smaller newspapers came together to tell four stories of great economic import for their communities, presenting a balanced view of the benefits and pitfalls of global trade on a key industry for Western Washington. Magazines Winner There are two winners in the magazine category. Charles Fishman of Fast Company for "The Toll of a New Machine" Highly original, the story explains that there is a new wave of automation and machinery that's changing how business gets done. It stresses the counterintuitive coun·ter·in·tu·i·tive adj. Contrary to what intuition or common sense would indicate: "Scientists made clear what may at first seem counterintuitive, that the capacity to be pleasant toward a fellow creature is ... fact that the machines are not eliminating jobs. Clifton Leaf of Fortune for "Why We're Losing the War on Cancer (and How to Win It)" The piece shed new light on the reasons why cancer research has not made more progress toward finding a cure, demonstrating that the focus is on the easiest improvement areas and that arguably the most important aspect of the disease, metastasis metastasis /me·tas·ta·sis/ (me-tas´tah-sis) pl. metas´tases 1. transfer of disease from one organ or part of the body to another not directly connected with it, due either to transfer of pathogenic microorganisms or to , is the least researched. Commentary Winner Peter Eavis of TheStreet.com for "Cracks in Fannie Mae's Foundation" Eavis spelled out the accounting troubles at Fannie Mae Fannie Mae: see Federal National Mortgage Association. long before any findings of wrongdoing wrong·do·er n. One who does wrong, especially morally or ethically. wrong  do were raised and dug into Fannie's
financial statements finding numerous areas of concern, even going so
far as to tell federal regulators where to look.
Deadline Writing Winner Andrew Ross Sorkin, Steve Lohr, David Barboza, Gary Rivlin and John Markoff of The New York Times for "End of an Era" The coverage of the IBM-Lenovo deal begins with a major news scoop, that IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) had decided to sell its PC business, and unfolds with insightful analysis that succinctly covers all of the bases and describes the rise of China as the world's new economic super power. Beat Writing Winner Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Francis of The Wall Street Journal for "The Short Life of 'Lifetime' Health-Care Benefits" The reporters use their deep knowledge of the insurance and benefits industry to catch corporate America in a big lie -- that rising health care costs are forcing them to cancel retiree health benefits to remain competitive -- and find that there's an incentive in accounting rules for companies to terminate plans even when/if costs are flat or declining. News Services or Online Content Winners Carol S. Remond of Dow Jones Newswires Dow Jones Newswires is the real-time financial news organization owned by Dow Jones. Founded in 1882, its primary competitors are Bloomberg L.P. and Reuters. The company reports more than 420,000 subscribers -- including brokers, traders, analysts and fund managers -- as of July for "Exposing Small-Cap Fraud" Remond's analysis of the small-cap world exposed the shenanigans shenanigans Noun, pl Informal 1. mischief or nonsense 2. trickery or deception [origin unknown] of three small companies that used unscrupulous means to pump up their stocks. The work led to the opening of SEC investigations and provided a clear warning for investors. Television Deadline Winner Chris Cuomo, Shelley Ross, Bob Lange, Thomas Berman and Jack Pyle of ABC News: Primetime for "Money for Nothing?" The piece examined one California family's experience with health care bills that went unpaid, and a small family business that found the health insurance plan they purchased from an out-of-state company reneged on paying actual medical bills. The story used this experience to detail an issue that has state-wide ramifications ramifications npl → Auswirkungen pl for California. The table sponsors of the 2005 Loeb Awards are as follows: Golden Circle Patrons --BusinessWeek --Dobbs Group --Forbes --Fortune --Smith Barney --USA Today --The Wall Street Journal --UCLA Anderson School of Management Anderson School of Management may refer to:
Silver Sponsors --Bloomberg News --Dow Jones Newswires --NBC --The New York Times Loeb Associates Sponsors --The Associated Press --CNBC --CNN --Financial Times --TheStreet.com --The Washington Post A gift bag was given to all attendees at the Loeb Awards banquet with contributions from the following sponsors: --Business Wire --HarperCollins Publishers --The New York Times --Princeton University Press --Time Warner Books --UCLA Anderson School of Management The Loeb Awards included a career development seminar exclusively for the 2005 Loeb Awards finalists. The event was held on Sunday, June 26, 2005, and was hosted by CNBC CNBC Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (artificial intelligence) CNBC Consumer News and Business Channel CNBC Congress of National Black Churches, Inc. . Featured presentation included: "The Ethics of Business Journalism" by Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Byron E. "Barney" Calame, public editor of The New York Times; "Managing Your Editor" by Minard Editor Award recipient Timothy K. Smith, assistant managing editor of Fortune; and "The Strange World of Television Economics" by Steve Liesman, senior economics reporter for CNBC. About the Loeb Awards Established in 1957 by Gerald Loeb, a founding partner of E.F. Hutton, the Loeb Awards recognize journalists who have made significant contributions to the public's understanding of business, finance and the economy. The judges select winners based on quality of reporting and writing, news and analytical value, originality and exclusivity, and in the broadcast categories only, production value and visual impact. UCLA Anderson School of Management has presented the awards since 1973. For more information about the Loeb Awards, please visit the Loeb Awards Web site at http://loeb.anderson.ucla UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX .edu or call the Loeb Awards office at 310-206-1877. |
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