Gerald Loeb Award winners for Breaking News


The Gerald Loeb Award is given annually for multiple categories of business reporting. The "Breaking News" category was first awarded in 2008.

Gerald Loeb Award for Breaking News (2008–present)

2008: "The Fall of E. Stanley O’Neal at Merrill Lynch" by Jenny Anderson, and Landon Thomas Jr.,The New York Times2008: "A New U.S. Auto Industry" by Katie Merx, Tim Higgins, Tom Walsh, Mark Phelan, Susan Tompor, Sarah A. Webster, Katherine Yung, and Joe Guy Collier, Detroit Free Press2009: "The Day That Changed Wall Street" by Carrick Mollenkamp, Susanne Craig, Serena Ng, Aaron Lucchetti, Matthew Karnitschnig, Dan Fitzpatrick, Deborah Solomon, Dennis K. Berman, Liam Pleven, Peter Lattman, and Annelena Lobb, The Wall Street Journal2010: "GM, Chrysler Nudged Toward Bankruptcy" by Christine Tierney, David Shepardson, and Gordon Trowbridge, Detroit News2011: "Flash Crash" by Tom Lauricella, Peter A. McKay, Scott Patterson, Jenny Strasburg, Robin Sidel, Carolyn Cui, and Mary Pilon, The Wall Street Journal2012: "GM-UAW Contract Negotiations" by Brent Snavely, Greg Gardner, and Chrissie Thompson, Detroit Free Press2013: "Best Buy CEO Resigns Under Cloud" by Thomas Lee, David Phelps, Janet Moore, Paul McEnroe, Tony Kennedy, Patrick Kennedy, and Eric Wieffering, Star Tribune2014: "Bangladesh" by Jim Yardley, Julfikar Ali Manik, and Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times2015: "Abdication of the 'Bond King'" by Gregory Zuckerman, and Kirsten Grind, The Wall Street Journal2016: "Inside the Dow-DuPont Merger" by David Benoit, Jacob Bunge, Dana Cimilluca, Dana Mattioli, and Dennis K. Berman, The Wall Street Journal2017: "Saudi Aramco: The World’s Most Valuable IPO" by Zanny Minton Beddoes, Henry Tricks, Anton La Guardia, Chris Lockwood, and Edward McBride, The Economist2018: "Ouster at Uber" by Mike Isaac, Farhad Manjoo, Kevin Roose, and Ashwin Seshagiri, The New York Times2019: "Amazon's HQ2 About-face" by Scott Calvert, Eliot Brown, Peter Grant, Tawnell Hobbs, Katie Honan, Melissa Korn, Douglas MacMillan, Eric Morath, Keiko Morris, Shayndi Raice, Stephanie Stamm, Laura Stevens, Jimmy Vielkind and Lauren Weber, The Wall Street Journal2020: "Crash in Ethiopia" by Hadra Ahmed, Hannah Beech, Selam Gebrekidan, David Gelles, James Glanz, Thomas Kaplan, Natalie Kitroeff, Jack Nicas, Norimitsu Onishi, Dionne Searcey, Kenneth P. Vogel, and Zach Wichter, The New York Times2021: "Collapse of Wirecard." by Dan McCrum, Olaf Storbeck, Stefania Palma, John Reed, Guy Chazan, and Laurence Fletcher, Financial Times2022: "The GameStop Frenzy" by Juliet Chung, Gunjan Banerji, Julia-Ambra Verlaine, Caitlin McCabe, and Akane Otani, The Wall Street Journal2023: "The Collapse of FTX" by Tom Wilson, Angus Berwick, Chris Prentice, Hannah Lang, Koh Gui Qing, Jasper Ward, Luc Cohen, Elizabeth Howcroft, Lawrence Delevingne, Anirban Sen, Greg Roumelotis, ''Reuters''