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Carol Junge Loomis
Senior Editor-at-Large
FORTUNE

Touted by the New York Post as a legend in financial journalism, Carol Junge Loomis has graced the pages of FORTUNE for more than 50 years.

In addition to reporting on a wide range of financial and corporate news, Loomis is well-known for profiles of business luminaries like Warren Buffett and Sandy Weill, and for cover stories such as "Everything In History Was Against Them "(April 13, 1998), an evocative tale of five Holocaust survivors who came to America and became successful businessmen. "FORTUNE has published thousands of success stories since its first issue nearly 70 years ago, but none has been as compelling as this week's cover story on the business breakthroughs of five Holocaust survivors," said the New York Post.

Loomis has won four lifetime achievement awards: the Gerald M. Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award (1993); the Women's Economic Round Table award (2000) for print journalists, of which she was the first recipient; and Time Inc.'s Henry R. Luce Award (2001), of which she was also the first recipient; and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers Distinguished Achievement Award (2006).

In 1976, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury appointed Loomis to the Advisory Committee on Federal Consolidated Financial Statements. In 1980, she served as one of six panelists questioning presidential candidates Ronald Reagan and John Anderson in a nationally televised debate sponsored by the League of Women Voters.

In 2000 Loomis won a "Front Page" award from the Newswomen's Club of New York for her story "Lies, Damned Lies, and Managed Earnings," which anticipated the financial scandals that have since rocked the U.S. markets. Later, in 2001, she returned to the same theme in an article called "The 15% Delusion."

In 2005, for an issue celebrating FORTUNE's 75th anniversary, Loomis wrote a memoir about her half-century at the magazine.

Loomis attended Drury University and the University of Missouri, from which she received a Bachelor of Journalism degree.