Gerald Loeb Award winners for Spot News

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The Gerald Loeb Award is given annually for multiple categories of business reporting. The "Spot News" category was awarded in 1983 and 1984. The Historical List of award winners maintained by the UCLA Anderson School of Management lists the 1984 award category as "Deadline/Beat Reporting," but contemporary sources say it was for "Spot News." [1] [2]

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Gerald Loeb Award for Spot News (1983–1984)

Delugach and Soble "won in the spot news category for their investigation into Saxon's activities leading up to his suicide" on September 28, 1963. [1] [4]

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  1. 1 2 3 "Times writers Delugach, Soble get Loeb Award". Los Angeles Times . CIII (122). April 3, 1984. p. 2 Part IV. Retrieved February 15, 2019 via Newspapers.com.
  2. 1 2 "Articles by a Post Reporter Win '84 Gerald Loeb Award". The Wall Street Journal . 107 (128). April 11, 1984. p. F5. ISSN   0190-8286.
  3. "Loeb citation for Times". The New York Times . June 29, 1983. p. D17. Retrieved February 7, 2019.
  4. Delugach, Al (September 30, 1983). "Precious metals firm's chief found dead". Los Angeles Times . CII (301). p. 2 Part IV. Retrieved February 25, 2019.