Wall Street Journal's Aaron Lucchetti '96 Receives Loeb Award

June 30, 2009

June 30, 2009, Greencastle, Ind. — Aaron Lucchetti, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and 1996 graduate of DePauw University, is the recipient of a Loeb Award, "among the highest honors in business journalism," reports the Associated Press. Lucchetti and his Journal colleagues were honored in the "Breaking News" category for their coverage of "The Day That Changed Wall Street." The awards were presented last night in Manhattan. The winning entry in each category receives $2,000.

Loeb Awards "have been presented for 36 years by Anderson School of Management at the University of California at Los Angeles," writes AP's Jennifer Malloy Zonnas. "They were established in 1957 by Gerald Loeb, a financier and founding partner of E.F. Hutton, to encourage quality reporting in business, finance and the economy."

The article points out, "Even as media companies struggle with a chronic decline in advertising revenue, made worse by the recession, they continued to put resources towards investigative journalism in covering the biggest economic and business story of the past 70 years. A number of award recipients spoke of being given a year or more to travel to big cities and small towns across the U.S. to write stories of abusive mortgage practices and other financial misdeeds."

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A political science major and Media Fellow at DePauw, Aaron Lucchetti serves on the advisory board for the University's Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media. On February 9, 2006, he returned to campus to discuss his experiences while reporting on Hurricane Katrina. Access a piece which includes photos and audio clips here.

James B. Stewart, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author and 1973 graduate of DePauw, received Loeb Awards in 1987, 1988 and 2006. 

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