Сергей Лойко, аккредитованный в Ираке «Новой газетой», стал одним из самых заметных журналистов, описывавших операцию «Шок и трепет». Его багдадские репортажи кроме «Новой газеты» публиковались в «Лос-Анджелес Таймс», звучали в эфире «Эха Москвы», перепечатывались крупнейшими мировыми изданиями. «Новая газета» выдвигает Сергея Лойко на премию Союза журналистов России за 2003 год.
Sergei L. Loiko, a Los Angeles Times correspondent and photographer for 24 years, has covered wars, crises and daily life in Russia and the former Soviet states for the Los Angeles Times since 1991. He reported from northern Afghanistan in 2001 and from Iraq in 2003. In 2005, he contributed to then-Moscow Bureau Chief Kim Murphy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning reports. His book, “Shock and Awe, War in Iraq,” published in Russian in 2004, was a regional best-seller. Before joining the Times, he was a television producer, a sergeant in the Strategic Rocket Forces and an English language high school teacher. Loiko graduated from Moscow State Pedagogical University. In 2015 Loiko was awarded Overseas Press Club Bob Considine award and the Los Angeles Times Editorial award for his series of stories form the war-torn Donbass in eastern Ukraine.