ALDEN LOURY

Alden Loury was named the Chicago Reporter's senior editor in 2002. He manages the publication’s reporters and freelance writers and serves as primary editor on most major investigative projects. Loury joined the Reporter staff in 1999 after three years at The News-Gazette in Champaign-Urbana. In 2001, he received the Crime and Communities Media Fellowship from the Open Society Institute. His story “Fighting the Odds: The Plight of Young Black Men” (April 2000), a three-part series documenting Chicago’s racial disparities in drug arrests and drug sentencing, earned a Herman Kogan Media Award for Meritorious Achievement from the Chicago Bar Association.