Gerald Loeb Award winners for Explanatory
The Gerald Loeb Award for Explanatory is given annually for journalism pieces showing exemplary in-depth analysis and clear presentation of a complex business subject. First awarded in 2011, the "Explanatory" category was restricted to print, broadcast, and online works, then opened to all mediums in 2015. The first "Explanatory" award was given in 2011.
Gerald Loeb Award winners for Explanatory (2011–present)
2011: by David Nicklaus and Tim Logan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch2012: Scott Pelley, Robert G. Anderson, Daniel Ruetenik, Robert J. Shattuck and Nicole Young, CBS News 60 Minutes2013: "Beef's Raw Edges" by Mike McGraw and Alan Bavley, The Kansas City Star2014: "Assets of the Ayatollah" by Steve Stecklow, Babak Dehghanpisheh, and Yeganeh Torbati, Reuters2015: "Borrowing Trouble" by Jason Grotto and Heather Gillers, Chicago Tribune2016: "Insult to Injury: America's Vanishing Worker Protections" by Michael Grabell, Howard Berkes and Lena Groeger, ProPublica and NPR2017: "Superbug Spreaders" by Natalie Obiko Pearson, Sharang Limaye, Jason Gale, Lydia Mulvany, Monte Reel, Stephanie Baker, Wenxin Fan, and Adi Narayan, Bloomberg News2018: "The Body Trade" by Brian Grow, John Shiffman, Blake Morrison, Elizabeth Culliford, Reade Levinson, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Zach Goelman and Mike Wood, Reuters2019: "Sign Here to Lose Anything" by Zachary R. Mider, Zeke Faux, Demetrios Pogkas and David Ingold, Bloomberg News2020: "Death by a Thousand Clicks" by Erika Fry and Fred Schulte, Fortune and Kaiser Health News2021: "Fumed Out" by Kiera Feldman, Los Angeles Times2022: "Inside TikTok's Dangerously Addictive Algorithm" by Rob Barry, Georgia Wells, John West, Joanna Stern, Frank Matt, Tawnell D. Hobbs, Yoree Koh, Jason French, and Julie Jargon, The Wall Street Journal2023: "Repowering the West" by Sammy Roth, Robert Gauthier, Maggie Beidelman, Jessica Q. Chen, Claire Hannah Collins, Ashley Cai, and Thomas Suh Lauder, ''Los Angeles Times''