Allan Sloan
Contributing columnist
Allan Sloan has been a business writer for more than 50 years and specializes in writing about complicated subjects in what he calls “a language approaching English.” Allan, who began his business journalism career in 1969 as the housing reporter at The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, has won numerous honors and awards. He’s a seven-time winner of the Loeb Award, business journalism’s highest honor. He’s won Loebs in four different categories (large newspapers, magazines, commentary and Lifetime Achievement) in four different decades (the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000’s) for five different employers (the Detroit Free Press, Forbes, Newsday, Newsweek and Fortune). He’s a graduate of Brooklyn College, where he majored in English and was a straight-A economics student (Disclosure: he took only one course). He also has a masters degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Allan and his wife recently celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary and have three children and four grandchildren.