New Loeb Awards Final Judges Announced by UCLA Anderson School of Management

Business Wire, May 5, 2008

LOS ANGELES -- The G. and R. Loeb Foundation and UCLA Anderson School of Management have announced changes to the final judging panel of the Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. Named as new final judges are: Philip Bennett, managing editor, The Washington Post; Marcus W. Brauchli, consultant, News Corp.; Joanne Lipman, editor-in-chief, Conde Nast Portfolio; and Russ Stanton, editor, Los Angeles Times.

The Loeb Awards, the most prestigious honors in the field, recognize journalists who have contributed to the public's understanding of business, finance and the economy. Loeb Awards final judges serve as advisors to the program and are responsible for selecting winners from among the finalists in the competition categories, as well as the recipients of the career honors, the Lifetime Achievement Award and Lawrence Minard Editor Award.

"Everyone affiliated with the Loeb Awards is very pleased to have these leaders in journalism and business news join our esteemed panel of Loeb Awards final judges," said Richard Rodner, associate dean of marketing and communication at UCLA Anderson and president of the G. and R. Loeb Foundation. "Their professional perspective will contribute greatly to our efforts to continually enhance and ensure the relevance of the Loeb Awards program. I also want to acknowledge several former members of the final judging panel for their many contributions during their years of service, including Lou Dobbs of CNN, Douglas Frantz, formerly of Los Angeles Times, Daniel Hertzberg of The Wall Street Journal, Robert G. Kaiser of The Washington Post and Andrew Serwer of Fortune."

The new Loeb Awards judges will be joining a stellar group of leaders in the industry who will be continuing on the panel, including Stephen J. Adler, editor-in-chief, BusinessWeek; Amanda Bennett, executive editor, enterprise, Bloomberg News; Jane Berentson, editor, Inc.; Matthew Bishop, bureau chief, The Economist; Steve Forbes, chairman and chief executive officer, Forbes; Chrystia Freeland, U.S. managing editor, Financial Times; John Hillkirk, executive editor, USA Today; Glenn Kramon, assistant managing editor, The New York Times; Judy D. Olian, dean, UCLA Anderson School of Management; Allan Sloan, senior editor at large, Fortune; and Jonathan Wald, senior vice president, business news, CNBC.

Philip Bennett is managing editor of The Washington Post. From 1999 through 2004, he was assistant managing editor for foreign news at the Post. During his tenure, The Post's international coverage was recognized with numerous awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes for international reporting, most recently for coverage of the war in Iraq. Bennett joined the Post in 1997 as a deputy national editor for coverage of national security, defense and foreign policy. He came to the paper from the Boston Globe, where he was a reporter on the metro staff, a foreign correspondent covering Latin America and later the Globe's foreign editor. He has written about Latin America for a variety of magazines. He started in journalism as a reporter for The Lima Times in Peru. Bennett grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and has a degree in history from Harvard College.

Brauchli is a consultant at News Corp. He was managing editor of The Wall Street Journal from May 2007 until April 2008. He was responsible for the Journal's news operations, in print and online, in the United States and abroad. Previously, Brauchli had been deputy managing editor since 2005. In this position, he led the news department team in the redesign of the Journal that launched on Jan. 2, 2007. Before that, as global news editor, he helped guide the 2005 redesign of the Journal's Europe and Asian editions. He has run the paper's news desk through two U.S. presidential elections, the 2000-2001 stock-market downturn, a series of corporate scandals, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the ensuing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Before that, in nearly 15 years as a foreign correspondent, Brauchli reported from more than 20 countries. Brauchli joined Dow Jones in January 1984 as a national copyreader with AP-Dow Jones and transferred to Hong Kong in September 1984 as a reporter for the newswire. In May 1987, he joined The Wall Street Journal Europe as Scandinavia correspondent, and in July 1988, moved to The Wall Street Journal's Tokyo bureau. He returned to Hong Kong in October 1992 as the Journal's Asia correspondent. In May 1995, he was named China bureau chief for the Journal and The Asian Wall Street Journal. He moved to New York as a news editor for the Journal in October 1999 and became national news editor in January 2000. He is a Columbia University graduate.

Lipman is founding editor in chief of Conde Nast Portfolio, the business magazine and web site launched in May 2007. In May 2008, Portfolio received a National Magazine Award for its Brief front-of-the-book section. Until October 2005, Lipman was a deputy managing editor of the Wall Street Journal. While at the Journal, she oversaw projects that won the paper three Pulitzer Prizes. Lipman joined the Journal in 1983 as a reporter in New York, covering insurance and real estate, before moving to the advertising beat in 1986, where she initiated and wrote the paper's advertising column from 1989 until she became a Page One editor in 1993. In 1998, Lipman created one of the paper's most successful innovations, Weekend Journal. She served as the section's editor in chief from 1998 to 2000. From 2000 to 2005, Lipman served as a deputy managing editor. She oversaw the Journal's 2002 redesign, including the creation of a new fourth section, Personal Journal. She also helped oversee the launch of Weekend Edition, which made its debut in September 2005. She joined Conde Nast in October 2005. Lipman received the Matrix Award in the newspapers category from New York Women in Communications in 2001, and in 1993, she was given a John Hancock Award for Excellence in the columnist category. Lipman is a graduate of Yale University.