The Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism are celebrating their 60th anniversary. Dean Judy Olian, chairman of the G. and R. Loeb Foundation Inc., revealed the 2017 finalists and announced the recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lawrence Minard Editor Award.
The 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient is Walt Mossberg, executive editor at The Verge and editor-at-large for Recode. This annual award recognizes an individual whose career exemplifies the consistent, superior insight and professional skills necessary to further the understanding of topics in business, finance and economics.
Nicholas Varchaver, assistant managing editor at Fortune, will receive the 2017 Lawrence Minard Editor Award, named in memory of Laury Minard, founding editor of Forbes Global and a former final judge for the Loeb Awards. This award honors excellence in business, financial and economic journalism editing, and recognizes an editor whose work does not receive a byline or whose face does not appear on air for the work covered.
Mossberg and Varchaver will receive their career achievement awards at the 60th Anniversary Gerald Loeb Awards banquet and celebration on Tuesday, June 27, 2017, at Capitale in New York City. The 2017 winners in the 12 competition categories, which represent the nation’s highest honors in business journalism, will also be announced during the banquet.
The banquet and celebration will also commemorate Gerald Loeb’s 1957 creation of the awards and recognize his legacy to encourage journalism on business and finance that informs and protects the private investor and the general public. Gerald Loeb was a founding partner of E.F. Hutton, a guest columnist for Forbes Magazine and widely considered a Wall Street iconoclast.
This year’s show will be hosted by Tyler Mathisen, co-anchor of CNBC’s Power Lunch, with additional presenters from television news announced in the coming weeks. The Loeb Awards are attended by the country’s most influential journalists, editors, publishers, producers, media personalities and celebrities.
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Read the full press release with a list of 2017 #LoebAwards finalists that were chosen among more than 480 entries submitted by local, regional and national outlets.
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