Chicago Tribune Honored with 2018 Gerald Loeb Award
27 June 2018 - 6:30AM
tronc, Inc. (NASDAQ:TRNC) is pleased to announce the Chicago
Tribune has been honored as a winner at the 2018 Gerald Loeb
Awards.
The Gerald Loeb Awards are among the highest honors in
journalism, recognizing the work of journalists who focus on
business, finance and the economy.
The Chicago Tribune’s Hal Dardick, with Jason Grotto and Sandhya
Kambhampati of ProPublica Illinois, received the Loeb Award for
Local Reporting for the series “The Tax Divide.” The project,
launched when Grotto was a Tribune reporter, exposed a broad
pattern of errors in the property tax assessment system in Cook
County, Ill. The series demonstrated that assessment errors
disadvantaged businesses and homeowners in lower-income
communities.
Chicago Tribune Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Bruce Dold said
the Loeb Award highlights the Tribune’s commitment to watchdog
journalism.
“Controversy had swirled around the assessment system in Cook
County for decades. Property owners in lower-income areas paid
higher taxes than they should have, while property owners in
wealthier areas gained advantages from the system,” Dold said.
The series has prompted state and local investigations into
reform of the property tax assessment system.
To read the full series, go to
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/taxdivide/.
About tronc, Inc. tronc,
Inc. (NASDAQ:TRNC) is a media company rooted in award-winning
journalism. Headquartered in Chicago, tronc operates newsrooms
in ten markets with titles including the Chicago
Tribune, New York Daily News, The Baltimore
Sun, Orlando Sentinel, South Florida's Sun-Sentinel,
Virginia’s Daily Press, and The Virginian-Pilot, The
Morning Call of Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, and
the Hartford Courant. Our legacy of brands has earned a
combined 60 Pulitzer Prizes and is committed
to informing, inspiring and engaging local communities.
Our brands create and distribute content across our media
portfolio, offering integrated marketing, media, and business
services to consumers and advertisers, including digital solutions
and advertising opportunities.
About the Gerald Loeb
AwardsThe Gerald Loeb Awards were established in 1957 by
the late Gerald Loeb, a founding partner of E.F. Hutton. Loeb
created the awards to encourage and support reporting on business
and finance that would inform and protect the private investor and
the general public. Journalists and media outlets nationwide submit
entries to compete for the Loeb Awards, the most prestigious honor
in business journalism. In 1973, Loeb appointed UCLA Anderson the
steward of the G. and R. Loeb Foundation. The Dean of UCLA
Anderson chairs the award's final judging committee of leading
journalists, news executives and academics. The awards use a
two-tier judging process comprising a preliminary round
(in Los Angeles) and final round (in New York City).
The awards banquet and celebration is held in New York
City every June and is attended by many of the country's most
influential journalists, editors, publishers, producers, and media
personalities. The foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
that operates primarily from sponsorship and private support.
Contact: Marisa
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