Sloan: King of print

Jon Friedman of MarketWatch lists his choices for the "best journalists of the year" in print, broadcast and online.
For "King of Print," Friedman chose business journalist Allan Sloan, a senior editor at large for Fortune.
The financial crisis, he says, brought out the best of Sloan
Friedman notes that Sloan stands out "because his pieces always include all of the finest qualities of journalism -- in any age -- analysis, clarity, curiosity, depth, empathy and a point of view."
From the story :

Journalists everywhere should note that Sloan doesn't get his points across with fancy writing. If anything, he reflects Main Street more than Wall Street in his simple, straight-forward imagery: "Hello? Eight years of dead money in the broad stock market? How can that be, given that Ibbotson Associates says the S&P has returned an average of 10.3% a year, compounded, since 1926? Think of it as a six-foot man drowning in a pond with an average water level of six inches -- if you step in at the wrong place, the water can be eight feet deep."

Sloan reminds me of a veteran baseball pitcher who gets the batters out by drawing on his ample knowledge and experience, not because he has the best fastball in the
league.