Scott Thurm

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Scott Thurm is a business news reporter who started working at San Jose Mercury News in 1990. [1] In 1988 he joined The Wall Street Journal , [2] where his roles included: chief of the management bureau, [3] senior editor in 2010 [4] and deputy tech editor in 2013. [5] In 2017, [6] he became Business Editor at Wired . [7]

Awards

Scott Thurm has been the recipient of various awards including:

  1. 1989: a member of the team that received a Pulitzer Prize for the coverage of a fatal road accident
  2. 1993 the Livingston Award for Young Journalists for the series on the Endangered Species Act he co-authored.
  3. 1997: a Sigma Delta Chi Award for News Writing from the Society of Professional Journalists [8]
  4. 2011: the Gerald Loeb Foundation Award [9] for distinguished business reporting in the Online Enterprise category in What They Know. [10]

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References

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  9. "Awards". Ashkan Soltani. 2014-11-02. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
  10. "UCLA Anderson Presents Loeb Awards In 13 Categories Tuesday Night In NYC; Washington Post's Steven Pearlstein Receives Lifetime Achievement Award and Fortune's Hank Gilman Receives Lawrence Minard Editor Award". UCLA Anderson School of Management Blog. Retrieved 2021-07-11.