Hear Betty Wong Discuss Her Job as Managing Editor of Reuters America
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Betty Wong – A NewsBios “Top 100” Journalist
Betty Wong, managing editor of Reuters America, is one of the 100 most influential business journalists in the
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NewsBios Proprietary Database Passes 7,000 Profiles of Influential Journalists
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Reuters' Betty Wong On Panel of 35 Preliminary Judges for 2007 Gerald Loeb Awards
March 19, 2007 11:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Its annual preliminary judging meeting was held today at UCLA Anderson School of Management in Los Angeles, Calif. This year’s preliminary judges include leading journalists representing major print and broadcast media organizations from across the nation, as well as a faculty member from UCLA Anderson School of Management, which has sponsored the Loeb Awards since 1973.
The Loeb Awards are considered the most prestigious honor in business journalism and recognize writers, editors and producers who make significant contributions to the understanding of business, finance and the economy. This year the preliminary judges considered 412 entries for the contest — a new all-time high, as well as 21 book nominations.
Each of the Loeb Awards preliminary judges reviews all entries in one of the 12 competition categories, including the new feature writing category, to narrow the field to approximately four finalists, which then advance to the final judging round held in the spring in New York City. The finalists are determined collectively by each category panel in separate deliberation sessions.
“We’re pleased to welcome 25 new preliminary judges for this year's competition,” said Richard Rodner, associate dean of marketing and communications at UCLA Anderson School of Management and president of the G. and R. Loeb Foundation. “The Loeb Awards have always attracted outstanding judges, and we’re pleased to continue that tradition.”
Following are the 35 returning preliminary judges for the 2007 Loeb Awards competition:
- Nancy Barnes, editor, Star Tribune
- Walt Bogdanich, assistant investigations editor, The New York Times
- Michael Carroll, editor, Institutional Investor
- Charles Crumpley, editor, Los Angeles Business Journal
- Jeffrey Daniels, producer, CNBC-TV
- Kathy Deveny, assistant managing editor, Newsweek
- Bennie DiNardo, deputy business editor, The Boston Globe
- Henry Dubroff, chairman and editor, Pacific Coast Business Times
- Jill Dutt, assistant managing editor, The Washington Post
- Gonzalo Freixes, lecturer, UCLA Anderson School of Management
- Harry Fuller, executive editor, CNET News.com
- Hank Gilman, deputy managing editor, Fortune
- Vindu Goel, editorial writer, San Jose Mercury News
- Howard Gold, editor in chief, MoneyShow.com
- Daniel Goodgame, managing editor, Fortune Small Business
- Ronald Grover, Los Angeles bureau manager, BusinessWeek
- Glenn Hall, business editor, The Orange County Register
- Kathryn Harris, contributor, Bloomberg News
- Lawrence Ingrassia, business editor, The New York Times
- Richard Jenkins, editor in chief, MSN Money
- Stephen Keating, business editor, Denver Post
- Rik Kirkland, senior editor at large, Fortune
- Matt Krantz, reporter, USA Today
- Chris Lester, assistant managing editor, The Kansas City Star
- David Morrow, editor in chief, TheStreet.com
- Kevin Noblet, business editor, The Associated Press
- Paul O’Donnell, business editor, The Plain Dealer
- Kim Quillen, business editor, The Times-Picayune
- Larry Reibstein, assistant managing editor, Forbes
- Bob Rose, executive editor, SmartMoney
- Eric Schurenberg, managing editor, Money
- Michael Siconolfi, senior editor, The Wall Street Journal
- Kathy Warbelow, business editor, Austin American-Statesman
- Stephen West, media and culture editor, Bloomberg News
- Betty Wong, managing editor of Americas, Reuters
The 2007 Loeb Awards winners will be announced at a banquet and presentation ceremony that will be held on Monday, June 25, 2007, in New York City. The recipients of the Lawrence Minard Editor Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award will also be honored.
The Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism were established in 1957 by Gerald Loeb, former founding partner of E.F. Hutton, to encourage quality reporting to inform and protect private investors and the general public. Winners are selected each year in a variety of print and broadcast categories, and career achievements are recognized with the Lawrence Minard Editor Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award. Judges are drawn from leading print and broadcast media nationwide.
Reuters Betty Wong Was Honored Back in 1992 by TJFR Business News Reporter
As Benjamin Disraeli, the witty British statesman and author, said in his political novel Coningsby in 1844, “Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.”
The TJFR Business News Reporter, in its sixth annual celebration of youth, thinks this could apply to business and financial journalism as well -- and again has selected 30 top journalists under the age of 30 to prove it. Some names are familiar to our readers, having been mentioned in these pages before; others will be new. All have made outstanding strides in their careers and hold the promise of becoming increasingly influential in the profession.
The 1990 and 1991 30 Under 30 lists saw fewer young, unseasoned and untested reporters being hired by major news organizations. The trend continues this year, too. Only three of the recognition winners this year are under the age of 26 -- compared with seven last year and 20 on our original list in 1987. Five members of the Class of 1992 are 26; 14 members are 27 or 28, and the remainder are 29.
Nevertheless, the competition for inclusion was very stiff. A search of our own computerized data bases turned up well over 100 potential candidates under the age of 30. Interviews with editors and bureau chiefs across the country helped us trim the list to 40 outstanding candidates. The final 30 were chosen on the basis of age -- those under 25 were given greater weight than those older, and extra consideration was also given to those with editorial responsibilities in addition to reporting and writing duties. Other criteria included the importance of their beats, prominence of their publications, prizes and awards won and past work that has attracted our attention.
Some news organizations are represented here repeatedly -- The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, and Business Week. That’s because these publications are among the nation’s most respected and because they make it a goal to hire and nurture young talent.
For the second consecutive year, Ricardo Sookdeo, 24, of Fortune, is the youngest member of the class. Jonathan Clements, 29, of the Journal, is the oldest, just making it under the wire by two days -- he turns 30 on January 2, 1993. (Anyone still 29 in this calendar year was eligible.)
Of the 30 finalists, 17 were recognition winners last year.
None of the Class of 1992 was on the original list five years ago. But with the publication of this list, three journalists -- Richard Meyer of Financial World, Rick Wartzman of the Journal, and Alan Deutschman of Fortune -- have made the list five consecutive years. This is the fourth year for Kelli Arena of Cable News Network, who was named in 1991 as well as in 1988 and 1989. And Martha E. Mangelsdorf is on the list for the third time, having been named last year and in 1988.
Other repeat winners from last year are Keith Bradsher of The New York Times, Joël Glenn Brenner of the Washington Post, the Journal’s Mr. Clements, Lucinda Harper of the Journal, Mark Landler of Business Week, Jonathan Moses of the WSJ, Ellen Neuborne of USA Today, Christopher Palmeri of Forbes, Sasha Salama of CNBC, Stephanie Strom of The New York Times, and Betty Wong of Reuters.
Many of these people had big years in 1992. Ms. Arena, for example, was promoted to news editor within CNN’s business unit, one of the highest-ranking posts there. Mr. Landler was wooed by the Journal to write its prestigious Advertising column, but turned the offer down. And Ms. Brenner inked a book contract to expand upon her profile of the Mars family and their candy empire.
While we don’t mistrust those over the age of 29, we agree with another British statesman and political writer, Edmund Burke, who wrote in the 18th Century, that “age must submit to be taught by youth.” We all stand to learn something from these young scribes’ abilities, initiative, energy and enthusiasm for tackling something new or different.
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