Gerald Loeb Award

Welcome to Video’s customers thought their payments were untraceable. They couldn’t have been more wrong. The untold story of the case that shredded the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymity.

Exploited by apps. Attacked by thieves. Unprotected by police. New York City’s 65,000 delivery workers have only themselves to count on. They’ve improvised solutions, like bridge patrol to protect themselves from attacks, to make their jobs feasible.

Florida’s tourism economy crashed, leaving dozens of low-wage workers trapped in a crumbling motel without electricity.

Murdoch and his children have toppled governments on two continents and destabilized the most important democracy on Earth. What do they want?

A trove of text messages details a plan by Mr. Moonves and a faded Hollywood manager to bury a sexual assault allegation. Instead, the scheme helped sink the CBS chief, and may cost him $120 million.

You were more than an employee. You were an owner.

When Wall Street's most aggressive bank took on the world's most incendiary client, someone was going to make a killing.

Tom Hayes, accused of manipulating Libor, sinks into suicidal despair as criminal prosecutors close in.

It takes a gallon of water to produce one almond. And that's not the most insane fact about the mad dash to plant the thirsty trees in the middle of a catastrophic drought.

Iceland’s de facto bankruptcy; its currency (the krona) is kaput, its debt is 850 percent of G.D.P., its people are hoarding food and cash and blowing up their new Range Rovers for the insurance resulted from a stunning collective madness. What led a tiny fishing nation, population 300,000, to decide, around 2003, to re-invent itself as a global financial power? In Reykjavík, where men are men, and the women seem to have completely given up on them, MICHAEL LEWIS follows the peculiarly Icelandic logic behind the meltdown.

The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar’s Poker, returns to his old haunt to figure out what went wrong.

Americans spent more money last year on bottled water than on ipods or movie tickets: $15 Billion. A journey into the economics–and psychology–of an unlikely business boom. And what it says about our culture of indulgence.

The handsome Tudor-style home at 150 Edgars Lane, built for less than $10,000 in 1925 on a hillside in this Hudson River town, never seemed to change much through all of its previous owners. Each family updated the house, but in modest ways until Tom and Julie Hirschfeld came along. The Hirschfelds purchased the two-story house with its gabled roof and stucco-and-wood-beam exterior for $890,000 in the fall of 2002. Good schools, safe streets, a picturesque community, like-minded neighbors, a relatively short commute to New York -- all these drew the family, just as they drew the previous owners.

Article in series Rewriting the Social Contract: Barriers to Middle-Class Pay; longstanding wage advantage that manufacturing workers enjoy over their counterparts in services or construction is shrinking fast as older workers depart, at Caterpillar and at other companies; United Auto Workers union at Caterpillar reluctantly accepted two-tier contract that provides significantly lower wages and benefits for newly hired employees; new second tier is as much as $20 per hour below cost for older workers; trade-off is promise of manufacturing revival at long last in old Rust Belt, as new hires come aboard at much lower labor costs; even healthy and highly profitable companies like Caterpillar are engaging in practice of two-tier wage structure; longstanding presumption that factory workers at successful companies can achieve secure, relatively prosperous middle-class life for themselves and their families is evaporating; Caterpillar chief executive Jim Owens says lowering wages has allowed company to add jobs; graph; photos (L)

Millions of men are turning down jobs they think beneath them or cannot find work for which they are qualified.

Article in series on executive compensation, Gilded Paychecks, examines two-tier income stratum that has developed in growing number of professions and occupations since 1990's; finds doctors, lawyers and bankers are collecting much larger fees than others in their fields for their work on business deals and cases; finds many moving from academia to Wall Street, and growing number of entrepreneurs seeing windfalls tied largely to expanding financial markets that draw on capital from around world; experts say growing difference in compensation is diverting people from some critical fields; in medicine, where some specialties pay far more than others, nation lacks enough doctors in family practice; doctors have become so interested in business side of medicine that more than 40 medical schools have added optional fifth year of schooling for those who want to earn MBA degree as well as MD; some graduates go directly to Wall Street or into health care management without ever practicing medicine; photos (L)

The Washington Post examined autopsy and postmortem reports from nearly a hundred victims of past mass shootings that involved an AR-15 style rifle.

A story pf extraction, exploitation and opportunity.