Allan Sloan
Allan Sloan is an American journalist, formerly senior editor at large at Fortune magazine.
Sloan was born in Brooklyn, New York and is a 1966 graduate of Brooklyn College and a 1967 graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He attended the Jewish Theological Seminary for two years while he was an undergraduate at Brooklyn College.
He is a veteran journalist who worked at Newsweek before being hired by Fortune, and has spoken about the economy on TV shows such as Charlie Rose, The Colbert Report and regularly on American Public Media's Marketplace found on NPR.
In 2008, Sloan won the Gerald Loeb Award for the seventh time. The prize was given for his story "House of Junk", which showed how subprime mortgages "went bad".Awards
- 1975 Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers for "Utility Rates: Too High or Too Low?"
- 1985 Gerald Loeb Award for Magazines for "Full Speed Ahead - Damn the Torpedoes"
- 1991 Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary for "Deal" columns
- 1993 Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary for "Deal" columns
- 1998 Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary for selected columns
- 2001 Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2008 Gerald Loeb Award for Magazines for "House of Junk"
