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Gerald Loeb Award The Gerald Loeb Award, also referred to as the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, is a recognition of excellence in journalism, especially in the fields of business, finance and the economy. The award was estab ...

is given annually for multiple categories of business reporting. The "Local" category was awarded for business, financial, or economic stories centered in a geographic area intended for consumers in that area from a local newspaper, magazine, television station, radio station, or website. "Local" replaced " Small & Medium Newspapers" in 2015.

Gerald Loeb Award for Local (2015–present)

* 2015: "Misleading March to the Top" by

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and Mará Rose Williams, ''

The Kansas City Star ''The Kansas City Star'' is a newspaper based in Kansas City, Missouri. Published since 1880, the paper is the recipient of eight Pulitzer Prizes. ''The Star'' is most notable for its influence on the career of President Harry S. Truman and as ...

'' ::Article: :
"UMKC’s misleading march to the top"
July 26, 2014 * 2016: “Payday at the Mill,” by Whit Richardson and Steve Mistler, ''

Portland Press Herald The ''Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram'' is a morning daily newspaper with a website that serves southern Maine and is focused on the greater metropolitan area around Portland, Maine, in the United States. Founded in 1862, its roots e ...

'' and ''

Maine Sunday Telegram The ''Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram'' is a morning daily newspaper with a website that serves southern Maine and is focused on the greater metropolitan area around Portland, Maine, in the United States. Founded in 1862, its roots e ...

'' ::Articles in Series: :
"Payday at the mill"
April 19, 2015 :
"Shrewd financiers exploit unsophisticated Maine legislators on taxpayers’ dime"
April 26, 2015 * 2017: "Painkiller Profiteers" by

Eric Eyre Eric Eyre (born c. 1965) is an American journalist and investigative reporter, best known for winning the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting for exposing the opioid crisis in West Virginia. He was a statehouse reporter for the ''Charleston Ga ...

, ''

Charleston Gazette-Mail The ''Charleston Gazette-Mail'' is the only daily morning newspaper in Charleston, West Virginia. It is the product of a July 2015 merger between ''The Charleston Gazette'' and the ''Charleston Daily Mail''. The paper is one of nine owned by HD ...

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Articles in Series
:
"Drug firms fueled ‘pill mills’ in rural WV"
May 23, 2016 :
"Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of overdoses"
December 18, 2016 :
"'Suspicious' drug order rules never enforced by state"
December 19, 2016 * 2018: "The Tax Divide" by Jason Grotto, Sandhya Kambhampati, and Hal Dardick, ''

Chicago Tribune The ''Chicago Tribune'' is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tribune Publishing. Founded in 1847, and formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" (a slogan for which WGN radio and television ar ...

'' and '' ProPublica Illinois'' ::Articles in Series: :
"An unfair burden"
June 10, 2017 :

June 10, 2017 :

June 10, 2017 :

December 7, 2017 * 2019: "Time Bomb" by Cary Aspinwall, Allan James Vestal and Holly K. Hacker,

The Dallas Morning News ''The Dallas Morning News'' is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, with an average print circulation of 65,369. It was founded on October 1, 1885 by Alfred Horatio Belo as a satellite publication of the ''Galvesto ...

Articles in Series
::#"Part 1: How Atmos Energy’s natural gas keeps blowing up Texas homes (while customers pay the tab)", September 23, 2018 ::#"Part 2: How Texas lets Atmos Energy off the hook", September 23, 2018 * 2020
"Profiting from the Poor"
by

Wendi C. Thomas Wendi C. Thomas is an Investigative journalism, investigative journalist and the founder of MLK50, a nonprofit digital newsroom with the goal of reporting on economic justice. Education Thomas graduated from Butler University with a degree in ...

, Deborah Douglas, Maya Miller, Beena Raghavendran, and

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, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism and

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* 2021
"Deceit, Disrepair and Death Inside a Southern California Rental Empire"
by Aaron Mendelson, Rina Palta, Chava Sanchez, Shana Daloria, and Priska Neely, '' KPCC Southern California Radio'' and ''

LAist Gothamist LLC is the operator, or in some cases franchisor, of eight city-centric websites that focused on news, events, food, culture, and other local coverage. It was founded in 2003 by Jake Dobkin and Jen Chung. In March 2017, Joe Ricketts, ...

'' * 2022: "How Pennsylvania's Biggest Pension Fund Squandered Billions, Hurt Taxpayers and Triggered an FBI Investigation" by Craig McCoy, Joseph DiStefano, and Angela Couloumbis, ''

The Philadelphia Inquirer ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' is a daily newspaper headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The newspaper's circulation is the largest in both the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the Delaware Valley metropolitan region of Southeastern Pennsy ...

'' and ''

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'' ::Articles: :
"FBI probe of massive Pa. pension fund seeks evidence of kickbacks or bribery"
May 16, 2021 :
"Internal PSERS documents show how Pa's biggest pension fund got key financial calculation wrong"
May 30, 2021 :
"Facing FBI probe, PSERS backtracks on disclosure that staffers were on both sides of real estate dealings"
June 8, 2021 :
"In a revolt, dissidents on PSERS board lobby colleagues to fire the fund’s leaders and set a new investment strategy"
June 9, 2021 :
"Six of 15 board members of embattled Pa. pension fund officially call for removal of its top command"
June 10, 2021

References

External links

Gerald Loeb Award historical winners list
{{Gerald Loeb Award American journalism awards Gerald Loeb Award winners