2026 Gerald Loeb Awards Finalists and Career Honorees Announced; Winners to Be Revealed Live October 8 in New York City

Stephen Engelberg of ProPublica to receive Lifetime Achievement Award

Marcelo Prince of The Wall Street Journal named Lawrence Minard Editor Award honoree

Journalists, media leaders and supporters to gather at Capitale for the annual Loeb Awards Banquet and Celebration

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The G. and R. Loeb Foundation Inc. and UCLA Anderson School of Management today announced the career honorees and 42 competition finalists for the 2026 Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. The finalists represent outstanding work across 13 competitive categories, recognizing reporting and storytelling that advanced public understanding of business, finance and the economy. Winners will be announced live at the Loeb Awards Banquet and Celebration on Thursday, October 8, 2026, at Capitale in New York City.

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Created to encourage and recognize reporting on business, finance and the economy that informs and protects investors and the public, the Loeb Awards are considered the highest honor in business journalism in the United States.

Loeb Awards Banquet and Support for the Mission

The Loeb Awards banquet and celebration will be held on Thursday, October 8, 2026, at the newly renovated Capitale in New York City. The evening will feature live announcements of the winning journalists and media outlets in 13 competition categories, along with tributes to career honorees Stephen Engelberg and Marcelo Prince. Hosted by Tyler Mathisen, former CNBC anchor, the event brings together journalists from around the world, media executives and industry leaders for an evening of recognition, connection and celebration. Journalists participating as category presenters will be announced in the coming weeks via LinkedIn and X (formerly Twitter).

Visit theloebawards.com for the official 2026 Loeb Awards invitation. Proceeds from ticket purchases, table sales and sponsorships play a critical role in advancing the Loeb Foundation's mission. For journalists, the banquet offers a special opportunity to connect with peers, editors and industry leaders outside the newsroom. For organizations, companies and advocates, it provides a meaningful way to celebrate and champion the public service of high-quality business journalism while building relationships across the media community.

As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, the foundation relies on this support to sustain the awards program, recognize excellence in business journalism and preserve Gerald Loeb's legacy. For information about attending the banquet, including discounted rates for media outlets, finalists and judges, as well as tribute journal advertising and sponsorship opportunities, please contact Candice Medenica at [email protected].

Career Achievement Honorees

Stephen Engelberg, editor-in-chief of ProPublica, will receive the 2026 Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a journalist whose career exemplifies the consistent superior insight and professional skills necessary to further the understanding of business, financial and economic issues.

Engelberg has spent more than four decades in journalism, building a distinguished career as a reporter, editor and newsroom leader. Before joining ProPublica, he spent 18 years at The New York Times, where he helped establish the newspaper's investigative unit and contributed to Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting. He later served as managing editor of The Oregonian before becoming a founding managing editor of ProPublica in 2008 and editor-in-chief in 2013.

Under Engelberg's leadership, ProPublica has grown into one of the nation's most influential investigative news organizations, earning numerous Gerald Loeb Awards and Pulitzer Prizes during his tenure. He has championed ambitious reporting on corporate misconduct, financial abuses, tax policy, consumer protection and government accountability, while helping pioneer new models for nonprofit, digital and local investigative journalism that have reshaped the industry and expanded the reach of public service reporting.

Engelberg's vision and leadership have expanded the reach and impact of accountability reporting, leaving a lasting imprint on the profession and exemplifying the values of the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Marcelo Prince, enterprise editor for business, finance and economics at The Wall Street Journal, will receive the 2026 Lawrence Minard Editor Award. Created in memory of Lawrence "Laury" Minard, founding editor of Forbes Global and a former final judge for the Loeb Awards, this award recognizes excellence in business, financial and economic journalism editing. It honors an editor whose work does not often receive public recognition.

Prince joined The Wall Street Journal in 1999, and in more than two decades has earned a reputation as one of the newsroom's most respected editors, mentors and teachers. In his current role, he works with reporters around the world on enterprise stories and investigations, helping journalists elevate their reporting, storytelling and editorial judgment. Previously, he served as corporate bureau chief, overseeing coverage of some of the world's largest companies and leading one of the Journal's most diverse business reporting teams.

Throughout his career, Prince has guided reporters to Gerald Loeb Awards, Pulitzer Prizes and other journalism honors while helping produce investigations that prompted government inquiries, corporate accountability and industry change. Known for his collaborative leadership and commitment to developing journalists, he has fostered a culture of mentorship and curiosity, and has guided innovative approaches to investigative, visual and data-driven storytelling that inform the public and hold powerful institutions accountable. He also co-founded the Journal's Hispanic and Latino employee resource group, training early-career reporters and mentoring journalists across the newsroom while sharing lessons that have shaped countless careers.

Prince's commitment to excellence, ingenuity and newsroom culture exemplifies the values of the Minard Editor Award.

2026 Competition Finalists

AUDIO

IVF Disrupted – Bloomberg News
Jackie Davalos and Shawn Wen

The Economist's Scam Inc. – The Economist
Sue-Lin Wong, Sam Colbert, Alizée Jean-Baptiste, Claire Read, Rosie Blau, Weidong Lin and John Shields

Shipwreck: How a Captain, Company, and Culture Sank the SS El Faro – Maeve McGoran, Sugar23 and Audible
Maeve McGoran, Caitlin Pierce, Ruxandra Guidi, Mike Mayer, Anna Stitt, Martha Little, Liam Billingham, Joshua Lash, Mischa Stanton and Gary Gunn

BEAT REPORTING

Crypto's Impact – The New York Times
David Yaffe-Bellany

Meta's Secrets of Success – Reuters
Jeff Horwitz and Engen Tham

STAT's Reporting on FDA Chaos – STAT
Lizzy Lawrence

BREAKING NEWS

Liberation Day Frenzy – Financial Times
Staff of Financial Times

Kimmel Goes Dark – The New York Times
John Koblin, Michael M. Grynbaum, Brooks Barnes, Benjamin Mullin, Stuart A. Thompson, Jim Rutenberg and James Poniewozik

Liberation Day – The New York Times
Ana Swanson, Tony Romm, Patricia Cohen and the Staff of The New York Times

COMMENTARY

Columns by Michael Hiltzik: Debunking the False Narratives of 2025 – Los Angeles Times
Michael Hiltzik

The New New World – The New York Times
Li Yuan

The Financial Engineering Fueling the AI Race – The Wall Street Journal
Jonathan Weil

EXPLANATORY

A.I. Delusions – The New York Times
Kashmir Hill

The Business of Babies – The Wall Street Journal
Katherine Long, Ben Foldy, Dana Mattioli, Emily Glazer, Lingling Wei, Sara Randazzo and Amy Dockser Marcus

The Militarization of Space – The Washington Post
Christian Davenport

FEATURE

Texas Oil Boom Spawns a Toxic Crisis of the Industry's Own Making – Bloomberg News
Kevin Crowley, David Wethe, Christine Buurma, Dave Merrill, Cedric Sam, Joe Ryan, Alex Newman, Josh Hersh and Tom Gibson

The Deadliest Workplace in America – The Washington Post
Todd Frankel and Andrew Van Dam

The Great Egg Heist – The Washington Post
Jessica Contrera, Jenn Abelson, Maria Alconada Brooks, Kelley Benham French, Kainaz Amaria and Talia Trackim

INTERNATIONAL

Made in America, Watched Worldwide – The Associated Press
Dake Kang, Yael Grauer, Aniruddha Ghosal, Garance Burke, Byron Tau, Sam Mednick, Michael Biesecker, Serginho Roosblad, David Goldman and Marshall Ritzel

Power Moves – The New York Times
Keith Bradsher, Brad Plumer, Somini Sengupta, David Gelles and Harry Stevens

Dark Fleets – Reuters
Paul Carsten, Prasanta Kumar Dutta, Lucy Craymer, Gleb Stolyarov, Anna Hirtenstein, Stefanie Eschenbacher, Shariq Khan and Stephen Eisenhammer

The Trump Crypto Story: Pardon and Profit – The Wall Street Journal
Angus Berwick, Rebecca Ballhaus, Patricia Kowsmann, Josh Dawsey and Caitlin Ostroff

INVESTIGATIVE

The True Cost of Data Centers – Business Insider
Staff of Business Insider

Money Trail at the White House – The New York Times
Eric Lipton, David Yaffe-Bellany, Cecilia Kang, Tripp Mickle and the Staff of The New York Times

Zero Trust: Inside Microsoft's Cybersecurity Failures – ProPublica
Renee Dudley, Doris Burke and Michael Mishak

LOCAL

Exposing Misconduct in L.A. County's Historic $4-Billion Sex Abuse Settlement – Los Angeles Times
Rebecca Ellis

Killer Train – The Miami Herald and WLRN News
Brittany Wallman, Aaron Leibowitz, Daniel Rivero, Joshua Ceballos, Susan Merriam, Shradha Dinesh and Allison Beck

The Institute – Spotlight PA
Wyatt Massey and Charlotte Keith

PERSONAL FINANCE & CONSUMER REPORTING

The Cost of Denial – NBC News
NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas

College Pricing Schemes - The New York Times
Ron Lieber

This Company Charges Disabled Vets Millions, Even After VA Said It's Likely Illegal – NPR and The War Horse
Chris Arnold, Caley Fox Shannon, Quil Lawrence, Leah Rosenbaum, Robert Little and Mike Frankel

Burned – San Francisco Chronicle
Megan Munce, Susie Neilson and Sara DiNatale

VIDEO/LONGFORM

Can't Look Away – Bloomberg Businessweek and DCTV
Matthew O'Neill, Perri Peltz, Olivia Carville and Kristin Powers

Inside the Secretive World of America's AI Data Centers – Business Insider
Staff of Business Insider

We Mapped Out Gaza's Deadly Food Economy – Business Insider
Reem Makhoul, Robert Leslie, Marco Secci, Erica Berenstein, Yasser Abu Wazna, Leo Dawson, Ahmed Al Danaf, Ju Shardlow and Sam Fellman

CBS News 60 Minutes: The Family Farm – CBS News/60 Minutes
Cecilia Vega, Michael Rey, Jaime Woods, April Wilson, Katie Jahns, Don Lee, Eric Kerchner, Dan Bussell, Ben McCoy and Trevor Nordeen

VIDEO/NEWS

CBS News 60 Minutes: The Price of Life – CBS News/60 Minutes
Scott Pelley, Aaron Weisz, Ian Flickinger, Michelle Karim, Joe Schanzer, Don Lee, Sean Healey, Rob Fortunato and Mark LaGanga

How the U.S. Automotive Industry Fuels Lead Poisoning in Nigeria – The Examination
Taylor Turner, Will Fitzgibbon, Ashleigh Joplin, Finbarr O'Reilly, Grace Ekpu, Quadri Taiwo, Daron Taylor, Romina Colman and Fernanda Aguirre

KARE 11 Investigates: Recovery Inc., The NUWAY Files – KARE 11-TV
A.J. Lagoe, Kelly Dietz, Steve Eckert, Gary Knox and Ron Stover

VISUAL STORYTELLING

End of The Line: How Saudi Arabia's Neom Dream Unraveled – Financial Times
Alison Killing

Visualizing Trump's Trade War – The New York Times
Mark Boyer, Agnes Chang, Keith Collins, Lazaro Gamio, Sarah Kerr, Isabelle Qian, Pablo Robles, Tony Romm, Ana Swanson and Daisuke Wakabayashi

The Trump Business Empire: A Visual Examination – The Wall Street Journal
David Uberti, Juanje Gómez and Kara Dapena

For more information, visit anderson.ucla.edu/gerald-loeb-awards, engage with us on LinkedIn and X, or contact [email protected].

About Gerald Loeb
Gerald Martin Loeb was born in 1899 in San Francisco, California. He began his career in 1921 in the bond department of a securities firm. He moved to New York City in 1924 to help establish E.F. Hutton and eventually ascended to vice chairman of the board. During Gerald Loeb's career, he was a favorite of business and financial journalists for his willingness to be interviewed and was described as "probably the most quoted man on Wall Street" (Forbes 1955). He was also an author of two investment strategy books, a guest columnist for Forbes and widely considered a Wall Street icon. In 1957, he established the G. and R. Loeb Foundation (under the stewardship of the University of Connecticut) to present the Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. In 1973, he transferred the stewardship of the awards to UCLA Anderson School of Management under the deanship of Harold Williams.

About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management is a world-renowned learning and research institution. As part of the nation's No. 1 public university, its mission is to advance management thinking and prepare transformative leaders to make positive business and societal impact. Located in Los Angeles, one of the nation's most diverse and dynamic cities and the creative capital of the world, UCLA Anderson places more MBAs on the West Coast than any other business school, and its graduates also bring an innovative and inclusive West Coast sensibility to leading organizations across the U.S. and the world. Each year, UCLA Anderson's MBA, Fully Employed MBA, Executive MBA, UCLA-NUS Executive MBA, Master of Financial Engineering, Master of Science in Business Analytics and doctoral programs educate more than 2,000 students, while the Executive Education program trains an additional 1,800 professionals. This next generation of transformative leaders will help shape the future of both business and society.

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