Carol Loomis

Carol Loomis spent over five decades at Fortune magazine, where she became one of the most respected financial journalists in American history. She edited Warren Buffett's annual letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders from the early 1970s and wrote many of the most influential long-form articles in Fortune's history, including pieces on hedge funds, derivatives, and corporate governance. Her 2012 anthology "Tap Dancing to Work" compiled decades of Buffett-related coverage. Loomis received the Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award and was inducted into the Magazine Hall of Fame. Her 1966 Fortune article "The Jones Nobody Keeps Up With" introduced a general audience to the concept of the hedge fund — decades before it became mainstream — demonstrating the kind of prescient editorial judgment and deep industry sourcing that made her one of the most trusted interpreters of Wall Street and corporate America for over half a century.