On Thursday, Reuters was honored with two Gerald Loeb Award wins and an honorable mention at a ceremony in New York. Presented by the G. and R. Loeb Foundation and the UCLA Anderson School of Management, the Loeb Awards celebrate excellence in business and financial journalism.
In the Breaking News category, Reuters won the top prize for its coverage of the collapse of FTX. Tom Wilson, Angus Berwick, Chris Prentice, Hannah Lang, Koh Gui Qing, Jasper Ward, Luc Cohen, Elizabeth Howcroft, Lawrence Delevingne, Anirban Sen, Greg Roumeliotis and team took readers inside the collapse of the crypto exchange. Reuters consistently broke news on the saga since it began on Nov. 6 when Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao triggered his rival’s collapse by tweeting that Binance would sell its holding of FTX’s own digital token. Reuters also exclusively obtained messages that founder Sam Bankman-Fried was broadcasting internally as he fought to retain control and rally employees around him.
Reuters won in the Podcast category for “Who Killed Daphne?,” by Reuters journalist Stephen Grey, Jacob Borg of the Times of Malta, and Russell Finch, Nikka Singh and the Wondery miniseries team. The podcast helped solve the mystery of who killed renowned Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, leading to arrests and convictions of the plotters and a political crisis on the island. The podcast explains how Grey and Borg solved a financial mystery and pinpointed a Maltese business tycoon as the man with most to gain by killing Caruana Galizia. The podcast culminates with a jail cell confession obtained by Grey from one of the assassins.
In the Investigative category, “Undocumented and Underage,” by Joshua Schneyer, Mica Rosenberg and Kristina Cooke, received an honorable mention. The series uncovered the widespread and illegal use of child workers at auto-parts factories in the U.S., leading to the rescue of minors and spurring at least 10 investigations by state and federal authorities. Children, some as young as 12, were building parts in Alabama for two of the world’s most successful automakers: Hyundai and sister brand Kia. The series also won a George Polk Award and was a Pulitzer Prize and Goldsmith Awards finalist.
In addition, former Reuters Editor-in-Chief Stephen J. Adler was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Adler spent 10 years as editor-in-chief of Reuters, where he led one of the most important transformations of the 172-year-old news organization. Reuters vaulted to the forefront of investigative reporting, data journalism and graphics, all while maintaining the speed and accuracy that has been the lifeblood of Reuters since its founding in 1851. During his tenure, Reuters won eight Pulitzer Prizes for reporting and photography.
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