Reporter Alden K Loury was promot t...

Reporter Alden K Loury was promot to Senior Editor onward 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 publicly completing the prestigious Grime and Communities Media Fellowship from the Soros Foundation's explain 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 measure in broadcast journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

In other recently made knowns three Reporter stories were among those honored March 15 by the agency of 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 way of Loury, with interns Micah Holmquist, Vince Kong and Ellyn Ong contributing, and "Illinois FIRST: Swing Districts Favored across Minority Areas" (November/December 2001) by dint of 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 place of education Reform, was the third finalist in the category, in which no winner was named.

The Richard H Driehaus foundation lately awarded the Reporter a $25000 grant to continue coverage of regulation accountability. The Reporter thanks the foundation for its ongoing support.

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