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.[1] First awarded in 2011, the "Explanatory" category was restricted to print, broadcast, and online works,[1] then opened to all mediums in 2015.[2] The first "Explanatory" award was given in 2011.

## Gerald Loeb Award winners for Explanatory (2011–present)

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* 2011: "Edifice Complex" by David Nicklaus and Tim Logan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch[3]

Articles in Series:

1. "If you build it... jobs still may not come", November 14, 2010[4]
2. "Area stunts growth by feeding on itself", November 15, 2010[4]
3. "A powerful lobby built by incentives", November 16, 2010[4]

* 2012: Scott Pelley, Robert G. Anderson, Daniel Ruetenik, Robert J. Shattuck and Nicole Young, CBS News 60 Minutes[5]

Story:

"The Next Housing Shock"

* 2013: "Beef's Raw Edges" by Mike McGraw and Alan Bavley, The Kansas City Star[6]

Articles in Series:

1. "Beef's Raw Edges", December 9, 2012[7]
2. "The Industry's Response", December 9, 2012[7]
3. "Inside America's largest beef factories", December 9, 2012[7]
4. "From Calf to Kitchen: The Journay of A Beef Cow", December 9, 2012[7]
5. "Costco's E. coli-testing procedures rival government", December 9, 2012[7]
6. "What's safest? Cook it fully", December 9, 2012[7]
7. "Building bigger cattle: An industry overdose", December 10, 2012[7]
8. "The Industry's Response", December 10, 2012[7]
9. "Beefed Up Corridor", December 10, 2012[7]
10. "Using money, science to win over stomachs", December 11, 2012[7]
11. "The Industry's Response", December 11, 2012[7]

* 2014: "Assets of the Ayatollah" by Steve Stecklow, Babak Dehghanpisheh, and Yeganeh Torbati, Reuters[8]

Articles in Series:

1. "Khamenei controls massive financial empire built on property seizures", November 11, 2013[9]
2. "Khamenei's conglomerate thrived as sanctions squeezed Iran", November 12, 2013[10]
3. "To expand Khamenei’s grip on the economy, Iran stretched its laws", November 13, 2013[11]

* 2015: "Borrowing Trouble" by Jason Grotto and Heather Gillers, Chicago Tribune[12]

Articles in Series:

1. "Risky bonds prove costly for Chicago Public Schools", November 7, 2014[13]
2. "Banks kept CPS in shaky bond market", November 10, 2014[14]
3. "Illinois lawmakers opened door to risky CPS bond deals", November 11, 2014[15]

* 2016: "Insult to Injury: America's Vanishing Worker Protections" by Michael Grabell, Howard Berkes and Lena Groeger, ProPublica and NPR[16]

Stories in Series

1. "Injured Workers Suffer As 'Reforms' Limit Workers' Compensation Benefits", March 4, 2015[17]
2. "'Grand Bargain' In Workers' Comp Unravels, Harming Injured Workers Further", March 5, 2015[18]
3. "As Workers' Comp Varies From State To State, Workers Pay The Price", March 6, 2015[19]

* 2017: "Superbug Spreaders" by Natalie Obiko Pearson, Sharang Limaye, Jason Gale, Lydia Mulvany, Monte Reel, Stephanie Baker, Wenxin Fan, and Adi Narayan, Bloomberg News[20]

Articles in Series:

1. "Antibiotic Apocalypse Fear Stoked by India’s Drugged Chickens", March 29, 2016[21]
2. "Baby's Death Shows Global Threat From Wonder Drugs Demise", March 29, 2016[21]
3. "China’s Five-Star Pig Pens Are Latest Weapons in the Superbug War", September 19, 2016[21]
4. "Why Superbugs Are Beating Big Pharma", September 21, 2016[21]
5. "How Antibiotic-Tainted Seafood From China Ends Up on Your Table", December 15, 2016[21]

* 2018: "The Body Trade" by Brian Grow, John Shiffman, Blake Morrison, Elizabeth Culliford, Reade Levinson, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Zach Goelman and Mike Wood, Reuters[22]

Articles in Series:

1\. "Part 1: Body Brokers",[23] October 24, 2017[24][25][26]

* "In the U.S. market for human bodies, almost anyone can dissect and sell the dead"[24]
* "Video: At this family firm, dissecting the dead is an art and a "thrill""[25]
* "Donated cadavers are essential to medical training, doctors say"[26]

2\. "Part 2: Desperate Gift",[23] October 25, 2017[27][28]

* "A Reuters journalist bought human body parts, then learned a donor's heart-wrenching story"[27]
* "How and why a Reuters journalist purchased human body parts"[28]

3\. "Part 3: Industry Leader",[23] October 27, 2017[29]

* "How an American company made a fortune selling bodies donated to science"[29]

4\. "Part 4: Grisly Case",[23] OCtober 31, 2017[30][31]

* "In a warehouse of horrors, body broker allegedly kept human heads stacked on his shelves"[30]
* "Criminals, slaves and minorities: the unseemly past of the body trade"[31]

5\. "Part 5: Mystery Woman",[23] November 2, 2017[32]

* "Mystery in the woods: In 2014, a woman’s severed head was found. Who is she?"[32]

6\. "Part 6: Unexpected Guests",[23] December 15, 2017[33]

* "Cadavers in the ballroom: Doctors practice their craft in America’s favorite hotels"[33]

7\. "Part 7: The Chop Shop",[23] December 27, 2017[34]

* "A business where human bodies were butchered, packaged and sold"[34]

8\. "Q&A: Body Donations",[23] October 24, 2017[35]

* "Body donation: Frequently asked questions"[35]

* 2019: "Sign Here to Lose Anything" by Zachary R. Mider, Zeke Faux, Demetrios Pogkas and David Ingold, Bloomberg News[36]

Articles in Series:[37]

1. "Part 1: I Hereby Confess Judgment", November 20, 2018
2. "Part 2: The $1.7 Million Man", November 27, 2018
3. "Part 3: Rubber-Stamp Justice", November 29, 2018
4. "Part 4: Business-Loan Kingpin", December 3, 2018
5. "Part 5: Fall Behind on These Loans? You Might Get a Visit From Gino", December 20, 2018

* 2020: "Death by a Thousand Clicks" by Erika Fry and Fred Schulte, Fortune and Kaiser Health News[38]

Story:

"Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong", March 18, 2019[39]

* 2021: "Fumed Out" by Kiera Feldman, Los Angeles Times[40]

Article:

"How toxic fumes seep into the air you breathe on planes", December 17, 2020[41]

* 2022: "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 Journal[42]

Article:

"Inside TikTok’s Algorithm: A WSJ Video Investigation", July 21, 2021[43]

* 2023: "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[44]

## References

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2. ^ "2015 Categories". UCLA Anderson School of Management. Archived from the original on February 11, 2015. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
3. ^ "Loeb Award Winners". UCLA Anderson School of Management. June 28, 2011. Archived from the original on March 21, 2019. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
4. ^ a b c Logan, Tim; Nicklaus, David (2010). "Edifice Complex" (PDF). UCLA Anderson School of Management.
5. ^ "UCLA Anderson Announces 2012 Gerald Loeb Award Winners". UCLA Anderson School of Management. June 26, 2012. Archived from the original on April 12, 2019. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
6. ^ "UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2013 Gerald Loeb Award Winners". PR Newswire. June 25, 2013. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k McGraw, Mike; Bavley, Alan (December 9–11, 2012). "Beef's Raw Edges" (PDF). UCLA Anderson School of Management. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
8. ^ "UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2014 Gerald Loeb Award Winners". UCLA Anderson School of Management. June 24, 2014. Archived from the original on February 1, 2019. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
9. ^ Stecklow, Steve; Dehghanpisheh, Babak; Torbati, Yeganeh (November 11, 2013). "Khamenei controls massive financial empire built on property seizures". Reuters. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
10. ^ Dehghanpisheh, Babak; Stecklow, Steve (November 12, 2013). "Khamenei's conglomerate thrived as sanctions squeezed Iran". Reuters. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
11. ^ Torbati, Yeganeh; Stecklow, Steve; Dehghanpisheh, Babak (November 13, 2013). "To expand Khamenei's grip on the economy, Iran stretched its laws". Reuters. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
12. ^ "UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2015 Gerald Loeb Award Winners". UCLA Anderson School of Management. June 24, 2015. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
13. ^ Grotto, Jason; Gillers, Heather (November 7, 2014). "Risky bonds prove costly for Chicago Public Schools". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved April 11, 2019.
14. ^ Grotto, Jason; Gillers, Heather (November 10, 2014). "Banks kept CPS in shaky bond market". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved April 11, 2019.
15. ^ Grotto, Jason; Gillers, Heather (November 11, 2014). "Illinois lawmakers opened door to risky CPS bond deals". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved April 11, 2019.
16. ^ Daillak, Jonathan (June 29, 2016). "UCLA Anderson School honors 2016 Gerald Loeb Award winners". UCLA. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
17. ^ Berkes, Howard; Grabell, Michael (March 4, 2015). "Injured Workers Suffer As 'Reforms' Limit Workers' Compensation Benefits". NPR. Retrieved April 11, 2019.
18. ^ Berkes, Howard (March 5, 2015). "'Grand Bargain' In Workers' Comp Unravels, Harming Injured Workers Further". NPR. Retrieved April 11, 2019.
19. ^ Grabell, Michael; Berkes, Howard (March 6, 2015). "As Workers' Comp Varies From State To State, Workers Pay The Price". NPR. Retrieved April 11, 2019.
20. ^ "UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2017 Gerald Loeb Award Winners". UCLA Anderson School of Management. June 27, 2017. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
21. ^ a b c d e Pearson, Natalie Obiko; Limaye, Sharang; Gale, Jason; Mulvany, Lydia; Reel, Monte; Baker, Stephanie; Fan, Wenxin; Narayan, Adi (February 10, 2017). Micklethwait, John (ed.). "Superbug Spreaders" (PDF). Bloomberg News. Retrieved April 11, 2019 – via UCLA Anderson School of Management.
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24. ^ a b Grow, Brian; Shiffman, John; DeRose, Adam; Culliford, Elizabeth; Ubaid, Mir; Kunthara, Sophia (October 24, 2017). "In the U.S. market for human bodies, almost anyone can dissect and sell the dead". Reuters. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
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31. ^ a b Shiffman, John (October 31, 2017). "Criminals, slaves and minorities: the unseemly past of the body trade". Reuters. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
32. ^ a b Morrison, Blake; Bogel-Burroughs, Nicholas (November 12, 2017). "Mystery in the woods: In 2014, a woman's severed head was found. Who is she?". Reuters. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
33. ^ a b Culliford, Elizabeth (December 15, 2017). "Cadavers in the ballroom: Doctors practice their craft in America's favorite hotels". Reuters. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
34. ^ a b Shiffman, John; Levinson, Reade; Grow, Brian (December 27, 2017). "A business where human bodies were butchered, packaged and sold". Reuters. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
35. ^ a b Shiffman, John; Grow, Brian (October 24, 2017). "Body donation: Frequently asked questions". Reuters. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
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43. ^ WSJ Staff (July 21, 2021). "Inside TikTok's Algorithm: A WSJ Video Investigation". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 9, 2022.
44. ^ "L.A. Times Wins Two Loeb Awards, Rivera Brooks Honored with Minard Editor Award". Los Angeles Times. September 23, 2023. Retrieved December 16, 2023.

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