Meadows Alum Named a Finalist for Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism

Sommer Saadi received the nomination in the explanatory journalism category

Sommer Saadi (B.A. ’09 – Journalism) has been named a finalist for a national 2012 Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. Saadi and fellow reporters Devin Leonard and Angela Greiling Keane received the nomination in the explanatory journalism category for their story "End of Mail” in Bloomberg Businessweek. The other nominees in the category are from CBS’s 60 Minutes, The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Winners will be announced at the Gerald Loeb Awards dinner in New York City on June 26.

The prestigious Loeb Awards were established in 1957 by the late Gerald Loeb to honor journalists who make significant contributions to the understanding of business, finance and the economy. He intended to encourage reporting on these subjects that would both inform and protect the private investor and the general public. Distinguished journalists nationwide participate in the competition, which is presented by the UCLA Anderson School of Management.