Loeb Awards Announces 2006 List of Winners

By Kevin Sweeney
June 28, 2006 12:03 PM

A team of reporters from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution leads the list of winners for the 2006 Gerald Loeb Awards, which were announced this week.

Ann Hardie, Carrie Teegardin and Alan Judd of the AJC took home top honors among large newspapers for their series on Georgia's anti-consumer lending practices.

Five reporters from The Blade in Toledo, Ohio, were winners in the medium newspaper category for their series on "Ohio Rare Coin Funds." Christopher Kirkpatrick, Joshua Boak, Steve Eder, Jim Drew and Mike Wilkinson investigated a Toledo-area coin dealer who allegedly transferred money from a state fund to a personal account that financed, among other things, political campaigns.

In the small newspaper category, Sam Kennedy and Christina Gostomski of The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa., won for their coverage of a local business school that implemented hard-sell tactics to reap profit from prospective students.

For magazines, Carol Loomis of Fortunewon for her report on how the board at Hewlett-Packard ultimately dismissed an unsuspecting Carly Fiorina from her post as CEO.

Steve Pearlstein of The Washington Post and Robert L. Pollock of The Wall Street Journal shared winning accolades among commentators. Pearlstein is the business and economy columnist for the Post. Pollock won for commentary that questioned the Food and Drug Administration's drug approval procedure.

Founding CNN financial editor Myron Kandel won the Lifetime Achievement award. Ronald Henkoff of Bloomberg News was presented with the Lawrence Minard Editor award.

The Loeb Awards are the highest honor in business journalism and are handed out by the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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