Loren Steffy is the business columnist for the Houston Chronicle. His column appears in on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, and he writes a daily blog that discusses business topics. He has appeared on CNBC, Fox Business, the BBC and the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Before joining the Chronicle in April 2004, Steffy was Dallas bureau chief and a senior writer for Bloomberg News in Dallas for 12 years. He covered a variety of business topics in Texas and across the country, including the collapse of Enron. Before joining Bloomberg, Steffy worked at the Dallas Times Herald, the Dallas Business Journal and the Arlington Daily News. Since joining the Chronicle, Steffy's columns have received awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, press clubs of Dallas and Houston, the Associated Press Managing Editors and the Hearst Corporation. He received the Chronicle's Jesse Award for Commentator of the Year in 2006. He won the Dallas Bar Association's Stephen H. Philbin Award for Excellence in Legal Reporting in 2001 and 2003. He also was a 2002 finalist for a Gerald R. Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism sponsored by the Anderson School of Business at UCLA.Steffy's reporting on the collapse of Arthur Andersen was selected for the 2003 edition of the "Best Business Stories of the Year." He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Texas A&M University and lives in The Woodlands, Texas.