Loury named Senior Editor - Reporter News - The Chicago Reporter promotes Alden K. Loury - Brief Article

Chicago Reporter, The, April, 2002

Reporter Alden K. Loury was promoted to Senior Editor on April 1. Loury joined the Reporter staff in 1999 after three years at The News-Gazette in Champaign-Urbana. Loury's work has received national attention; he is currently completing the prestigious Grime and Communities Media Fellowship from the Soros Foundation's Open Society Institute.

His story "Fighting the Odds: The Plight of Young Black Men" (April 2000) earned a Herman Kogan Media Award for Meritorious Achievement from the Chicago Bar Association. A Chicago native, Loury earned a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

In other news, three Reporter stories were among those honored March 15 by Investigative Reporters and Editors. Named as 2001 IRE Award finalists in the magazine/specialty publications category were the two-part "Juries and Justice" series (April, July/August 2001) by Loury, with interns Micah Holmquist, Vince Kong and Ellyn Ong contributing, and "Illinois FIRST: Swing Districts Favored Over Minority Areas" (November/December 2001) by writers Beth Musgrave and Jennifer Whitson, with reporter Pamela A. Lewis and intern Cyril Mychalejko contributing.

The Reporter's sister publication, CATALYST: Voices for Chicago School Reform, was the third finalist in the category, in which no winner was named.

The Richard H. Driehaus foundation recently awarded the Reporter a $25,000 grant to continue coverage of government accountability. The Reporter thanks the foundation for its ongoing support.