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Alden K. Loury joined The Chicago Reporter staff in 1999 after three years covering city government and social services at the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette. In 2001, he received the prestigious Crime and Communities Media Fellowship from the Soros Foundation’s Open Society Institute. During his fellowship, Loury penned a three-part series documenting Chicago’s racial disparities in drug arrests and drug sentencing. The series earned Loury the Chicago Bar Association’s Herman Kogan Award. In all, seven of Loury’s eight investigative stories were honored with local or national awards.
Promoted to senior editor in 2002, Loury now manages the publication’s editorial staff and serves as primary editor for many of the publication’s major investigative projects. In all, he has led nearly 50 projects including investigations on lottery ticket sales in Chicago’s black communities, rising homicide rates near public housing developments, fatal police shootings, child deaths due to abuse or neglect, school funding disparities, voting trends, and the struggle for men and women leaving prison to find employment.
In addition, Loury serves as the primary computer-assisted reporting specialist at the Reporter. He has analyzed databases of police, court and voter files, among others, some with millions of records. Those analyses have formed the core of many of the Reporter’s investigations during his tenure as senior editor. Loury has shared his expertise as a guest presenter during computer-assisted reporting seminars sponsored by Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists and the National Newspaper Publishers Association.
Media/speaking engagements include:
“848” on Chicago Public Radio
“Chicago Tonight” on WTTW
“People to People” on WGN-TV
“Cliff Kelley Show” on WVON-AM
“Roland S. Martin Show” on WVON-AM.
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Alden Loury
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Promoted to senior editor in 2002, Loury now manages the publication’s editorial staff and serves as primary editor for many of the publication’s major investigative projects. In all, he has led nearly 50 projects including investigations on lottery ticket sales in Chicago’s black communities, rising homicide rates near public housing developments, fatal police shootings, child deaths due to abuse or neglect, school funding disparities, voting trends, and the struggle for men and women leaving prison to find employment.
In addition, Loury serves as the primary computer-assisted reporting specialist at the Reporter. He has analyzed databases of police, court and voter files, among others, some with millions of records. Those analyses have formed the core of many of the Reporter’s investigations during his tenure as senior editor. Loury has shared his expertise as a guest presenter during computer-assisted reporting seminars sponsored by Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists and the National Newspaper Publishers Association.
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