Hanford Series Wins Another National Prize

Tue., May 2, 1995

From Staff Reports

A Spokesman-Review series documenting waste and mismanagement at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation has won another national award.

Reporters Jim Lynch and Karen Dorn Steele won the 1995 Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism for newspapers with circulations of 150,000 and under.

They joined winners from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal and Florida Trend magazine.

The Spokesman-Review series also won the George Polk national award for environmental reporting.

The Loebs were awarded Monday by the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. A $1,000 prize will be awarded in each of six categories. A dinner will honor the winners June 12 in Los Angeles.

Established in 1957 by the late Gerald Loeb, the awards honor journalists who have made significant contributions to the public’s understanding of business, finance and the economy. This year, there were 300 entries.

“I’m proud to see that the best work of The Spokesman-Review stacks up with the best work of every newspaper in the country,” Editor Chris Peck said.

Among the judges for the Loebs were Los Angeles Times Editor Shelby Coffey, CNN Business News Managing Editor Lou Dobbs and top editors with the Wall Street Journal, Forbes and Business Week.

“Within the journalism community, the Loeb awards are among the most prestigious given out each year,” Peck said.

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