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| Matt Apuzzo Associated Press  Matt Apuzzo is a member of AP's Washington investigative team. He previously served as legal affairs writer, covering the FBI investigations of Blackwater Worldwide, Ted Stevens and Scooter Libby. He came to Washington from AP's Connecticut bureau, where he was part of a three-person investigative team exposing corruption in Gov. John G. Rowland's administration. He joined the AP from the New Bedford (Mass.) Standard-Times, where he covered corruption and heroin trafficking on the nation's richest fishing port. A native of Cumberland, Maine, he graduated from Colby College. He lives in Washington with his wife, Becky, and son, Dominic. |
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| Matthew Goldstein Bloomberg Businessweek  Matthew Goldstein currently is the Editor in Charge of Wall Street investigation for Thomson Reuters. He previously was a Reuters columnist. He came to Reuters from BusinessWeek where he was a senior writer. Goldstein has been a working journalist for more than two decades. He was a finalist for Loeb award in 2006.
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From his base in San Francisco, CBS News Correspondent John Blackstone covers breaking stories throughout the west. That often means he is on the scene of wildfires, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and rumbling volcanoes. He also reports on the high tech industry in Silicon Valley and on social and economic trends that frequently begin in the West. Blackstone began his career with CBS News as a foreign correspondent based in London (1980-84) and Paris (1984-86). He covered the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and reported frequently from Beirut during some of the most violent episodes of Lebanon's civil war. Prior to joining CBS News, Blackstone was a reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (l974 80). He was graduated from York University in Toronto and the School of Journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa. He was born in Canada and became an American citizen in 2003. |
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Yvonne Miller-Halee worked at CBS News for 14 years, contributing to the Evening News, CBS Morning News and 60 Minutes. During her time with Evening News, Miller-Halee spent time in the Middle East covering the Gulf War with Dan Rather. She graduated from the Science, Environmental and Reporting Program at NYU in 1995. |
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Nine-time Emmy Award winner Armen Keteyian is the Chief Investigative Correspondent for CBS News and head of the network's Investigative unit. In that capacity he reports across all platforms, although primarily for The Evening News with Katie Couric. He previously worked as a correspondent for ABC Network News, reporter for CBS Sports and HBO Sports, and a writer-reporter for Sports Illustrated. He is the author or co-author of nine books, including The New York Times bestseller "Raw Recruits." |
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| Patricia Milton CBS News |
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George Osterkamp has been a producer for CBS News since 1982, first covering major breaking news events for CBS Special Events Unit. From 1986-1989 he worked as a producer with "48 Hours" where he produced a segment for the award winning debut program, "48 Hours on Crack Street." Since 1989, George has been based in San Francisco covering breaking news, features and Silicon Valley. He works primarily with Correspondent John Blackstone. |
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Laura Strickler has been the Washington-based investigative producer for the CBS Investigative Unit since the summer of 2006. Her five month investigation into untested forensic evidence from rapes across the country just won a Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media. Before coming to CBS, she was a correspondent for Public Radio International on Capitol Hill for two years where she covered Congress for public radio stations across the country. Strickler is a graduate of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism where she earned an award for her investigative reporting on New York City's environmental agency. Prior to graduate school, she spent six years analyzing state and federal public policy for non-profit organizations in Seattle and Washington DC. |
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| Len Tepper CBS News |
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David Shepardson David Shepardson is the Washington Bureau Chief of The Detroit News. He attended the University of Michigan studying history and worked as a free-lance writer for The News starting in 1993. He served as managing news editor of the student newspaper The Michigan Daily and was an intern at the Middlesex (Mass.) News before joining The Detroit News full-time in 1995. He covered a variety of beats in Detroit, including the federal courts, before moving to the Washington Bureau in 2006 to cover the auto industry. He was named bureau chief in January 2009. He has twice been a finalist for the Gerald Loeb award for excellence in business journalism and won a number of investigative and other journalism awards. Shepardson lives in Washington D.C., with his wife Nicole. |
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Christine Tierney Tierney was previously a correspondent for Reuters News for 13 years, covering political and financial news from Montreal, Mexico City and Paris. |
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| Saugato Datta The Economist |
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James Bandler is Editor at Large at FORTUNE. Bandler, a Pulitzer Prize winner, is a two time winner of the Loeb award. He was previously a reporter at The Wall Street Journal which he joined in September 1999 as a health care and education writer for its New England regional edition and later covered media companies from New York. His work includes a 2010 profile of Bernard Madoff that won the 2010 Gerald Loeb award for best magazine story. Also in 2010, his feature on grifter, Dina Wein Reis, was a finalist in the Loeb's features category. Mr. Bandler has written about mining in Afghanistan, accounting fraud at Xerox Corp., executive theft at Wal-Mart Stores Inc., and the fall of insurance giant AIG. His Fortune article about an insider trading scandal that toppled one of IBM's most promising executives won the 2011 award from the Society of American Business Editors for best feature story for a publication of a circulation of greater than 500,000.
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Doris Burke is a senior reporter at Fortune. Since October 2006, she has worked on graphics and investigative pieces. |
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Nicholas Varchaver Prior to Fortune, he was a senior editor and writer at Brill's Content, a staff writer at Smart Money, and a writer and editor for The American Lawyer magazine. |
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Rick Montgomery In recent years he has written or co-authored series that measured efficiency levels of area governments, examined the distressed state of boyhood, took readers on a 21st-century journey on the Lewis and Clark Trail and explored in human detail the issues dividing a local voting precinct in an election season. Between major projects, he spent the past year reporting on topics ranging from video-game culture to cloned beef to the Iowa caucuses. He is co-author of two local history books, including the award-winning Kansas City: An American Story, now in its fifth printing. A 1982 graduate of Iowa State University, Montgomery lives in Prairie Village, Kan., with his wife Susan and their two sons. |
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Chris Adams In 2010, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (with colleagues Greg Gordon and Kevin G. Hall) for coverage of the nation's financial meltdown. He also was a Pulitzer finalist in 1996 and 1999, and in 2000 was part of a six-person Journal team that won the Pulitzer for coverage of military spending issues. His previous work for the Washington Bureau won the National Press Club award for best Washington reporting, the NIHCM Foundation Annual Health Care Journalism Award, the Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Award for best Washington reporting, the Society of Professional Journalists Award for best Washington reporting, a Heywood Broun Award, the Gerald Loeb Award for outstanding business reporting, and the National Headliner Award. Before joining the bureau, his reporting won the George Polk, Robert F. Kennedy, Worth Bingham, Clark Mollenhoff, Investigative Reporters & Editors, and Livingston awards. He is a graduate of Iowa State University and the University of New Orleans, and teaches journalism at American University. |
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Greg Gordon Since joining McClatchy's national staff in 2006, he has helped expose Wall Street's role in the 2008 financial crisis, partisanship in the Justice Department and gaps in U.S. homeland security. In 2010, he and colleagues Kevin Hall and Chris Adams were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for their financial reporting, which included Gordon's four-part series detailing Goldman Sachs' selloff of tens of billions of dollars in securities backed by risky home mortgages while it secretly bet that a housing downturn would send the value of those securities plummeting. In 2008, he, along with Margaret Talev and Marisa Taylor, won a McClatchy ``President's Award'' and Scripps Howard's Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for Washington reporting (Gordon's second Clapper award) for exposing the Bush administration's politicization of the Justice Department. Earlier, Gordon spent 13 years with the Minneapolis Star Tribune and McClatchy, covering the prosecution of al-Qaida terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui and writing about asbestos in the workplace, money and politics, aviation, law enforcement and the environment. He also worked for The Detroit News' Washington bureau and spent 18 years with United Press International, where he headed its Washington investigative team and won the 1983 Raymond Clapper award for coverage of an EPA scandal. In 1990, he and co-author Ronald E. Cohen won Sigma Delta Chi's gold medal for their book "Down to the Wire," chronicling UPI's financial collapse. |
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| Joe Nocera The New York Times Magazine  Joe Nocera became a business columnist for The New York Times in April 2005. Mr. Nocera also contributes to The New York Times Magazine as a business writer. In addition to his work at The Times, he is a regular business commentator for NPR's "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon.
Before joining The Times, Mr. Nocera spent 10 years at Fortune magazine, where he held a variety of positions, including contributing writer, editor-at-large and executive editor. His last position at Fortune was editorial director. Previously, he was the "Profit Motive" columnist at GQ until May 1995, and he wrote the same column for Esquire from 1988 to 1990. In the 1980s he served as a contributing editor at Newsweek, executive editor of New England Monthly and senior editor at Texas Monthly. From 1978 to 1980, he was an editor at The Washington Monthly. Mr. Nocera's Saturday column, "Talking Business," ranges widely over the world of business, covering everything from Home Depot's annual meeting to Boeing's comeback to his offbeat musings about his broken iPod. Slate magazine says that his column "demystifies the world of business with original thinking, brainy reporting and the ability to see around corners." Mr. Nocera has won three Gerald Loeb awards and three John Hancock awards for excellence in business journalism. His book "A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class" won the New York Public Library's Helen B. Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism. He anchored the 1997 Frontline documentary "Betting on the Market," which was broadcast on PBS, and in 2003 edited "The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron," a best-selling book by two Fortune senior writers. In 2007, Mr. Nocera was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for commentary. He was a winner in the Society of American Business Editors and Writers 2007 Best in Business Journalism Contest for his column in The New York Times. Born in Providence, R.I., on May 6, 1952, Mr. Nocera earned a B.S. in journalism from Boston University in 1974. He has three children and lives in New York. |
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| Lowell Bergman PBS Frontline |
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Marlena Telvick is an award-winning investigative reporter and deputy director of the Investigative Reporting Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, American Journalism Review, the PBS ‘NewsHour' and in numerous reports for PBS ‘FRONTLINE', including "Black Money" on bribery in international commerce, "News War": a four-part documentary series examining the state of the news media; "The Enemy Within," on the U.S. response to the terrorist threats within our borders and "The Secret History of the Credit Card". |
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| Oriana Zill de Granados PBS Frontline  ORIANA ZILL de GRANADOS is an award-winning investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker with more than eighteen years of experience on programs for network, public and cable television. She is the producer and writer of documentaries for PBS Frontline and Frontline World, including The Card Game (2009), Black Money (2009), Crimes at the Border (2008), A Dangerous Business Revisited (2008), The Enemy Within (2006), The Lawless Sea (2002) and Drug Wars (2000), which was awarded the Peabody Award and an Emmy award.
She has produced segments for PBS Expose and PBS Now with Bill Moyers. She is also the producer, director and writer of a CIR/Latino Public Broadcasting documentary, Nuestra Familia/Our Family, about Latino gangs in California's farm towns, which aired nationally on PBS in 2006, and was awarded a 2006 IRE Medal for Crime Reporting and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Documentary Award. She was Senior Producer on numerous other national documentary projects at the Center for Investigative Reporting from 2003 - 2008. |
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| Andrew Ross Sorkin Penguin Group (USA) -- Viking |
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Kirsten Grind Kirsten Grind is the banking and finance reporter for the Puget Sound Business Journal in Seattle, where she has worked for the last two years. She recently was named a Pulitzer finalist for her work covering the collapse of Washington Mutual and the foreclosure crisis across Washington state. Previously, Grind was a temporary business reporter and freelancer at The Seattle Times and was also a business editor at the largest daily newspaper in Northern Colorado. She has also recently won a handful of other national journalism awards for her coverage, including from the Society of Professional Journalists. |
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| Alwyn Scott Puget Sound Business Journal |
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| Francine McKenna re: The Auditors Blog  Francine McKenna is the Managing Editor of the specialized news site, re: The Auditors, focusing on the business of the Big 4 audit firms. re: The Auditors provides updates on accounting regulation, auditing, and strategy combined with independent, original reporting on the accounting industry. She is a freelance writer with credits in the Financial Times, Accountancy Age, Accountancy Magazine, Internal Auditor and various financial, media, and technology blogs. She also blogs at The Huffington Post. McKenna has been quoted or profiled in the Financial Times, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, BusinessWeek, Forbes, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London, The Deal, and other accounting and finance publications and web sites.
McKenna has more than twenty-five years of experience in a range of industries in the consulting and professional services environment. She was the first female Managing Director in Latin America for BearingPoint Inc, (formerly KPMG Consulting.), leading their Industrial, Automotive and Transportation practice for the region. She also was a Vice President for Information Technology for JP Morgan in Latin America, leading the Y2K PMO in the region. She is fluent in Spanish and has lived/worked in México City, Sao Paulo, Caracas, Bogotá and Buenos Aires. As a Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, she served multinational clients in Internal Audit Services on a global basis and was a member of their internal team auditing "PwC the Firm." Before that, she was a Regional Vice President for Jefferson Wells International, a subsidiary of Manpower. Ms. McKenna held various positions in accounting and financial management prior to her work in professional services and began her career as an internal auditor at Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust in Chicago. Ms. McKenna has taught in the School of Computing and Digital Media at DePaul University in Chicago and is on the Advisory Board of the Latin American Studies Program at the University of Chicago. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Accountancy at Purdue University. |
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| Aaron Kessler Sarasota Herald-Tribune  Aaron Kessler covers the real estate meltdown and other related issues for the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune. His investigation of contaminated Chinese drywall prompted Congressional action and a deluge of lawsuits over the defective building product wreaking havoc in U.S. homes. He previously covered state government for The (Charlottesville, Va.) Daily Progress and The Joplin (Mo.) Globe and has worked on investigative projects for The Kansas City Star and the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch. He also served as deputy director of the Virginia Public Access Project, which tracks campaign finance in Virginia in conjunction with news outlets including the Washington Post and Associated Press. |
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| Susanne Craig The Wall Street Journal  Susanne Craig is a New York-based reporter for The Wall Street Journal. She focuses on stories about the brokerage industry and firms such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers.
Prior to joining The Wall Street Journal in April 2001, Ms. Craig was a reporter for various publications, including The Globe and Mail, where she also served as the publication's New York bureau cheif, and the Financial Post. Both publications are based in Toronto. In 2009, Ms. Craig was part of a team of Journal reporters who were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for National Affairs Reporting for their coverage of the collapse of America's financial system. That coverage won the Institute on Political Journalism's Excellence in Economic Reporting Award. That same year, Ms. Craig was also honored with awards from the New York Newspaper Publishers Association, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and the National Headliner Club. In June 2005, Ms. Craig and a group of fellow Journal reporters won the Business Award from the New York Press Club for their "Open Secrets" series, exposing questionable acitivites in a broad range of financial areas. In June 2004, Ms. Craig and her colleagues received the Loeb Award for Deadline Writing for "The Day Grasso Quit as NYSE Chief." In April 2004, Ms. Craig and other WSJ reporters won two Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) awards: one for the article, "The Day That Grasso Quit" in the Breaking News category; the other for the article, "Grasso Is NYSE's $10 Million Man," in the Spot Enterprise category. In February 2004, the American Society of Newspaper Editors named Ms. Craig, and two fellow Journal finalists for the Jesse Laventhol Prize for deadline news reporting by a team . In October 2003, she and fellow Journal reporter Kate Kelly jointly received an award from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University for spot news coverage of the New York Stock Exchange. In 2000, while working at The Globe and Mail, Ms. Craig was part of a team that won a National Newspaper Award for a series of stories on insider trading. Born in Calgary, Alberta, Ms. Craig received a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Calgary. She currently resides in New York City. |
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David Enrich Mr. Enrich joined the Journalism in December 2007 in New York, writing about the U.S. banking industry, with a particular focus on Citigroup. He relocated to the Journal's London bureau in March 2010. Prior to joining the Journal, he was a reporter with Dow Jones Newswires for several years, covering the banking and financial services industry in Jersey City, N.J., and Washington, DC. In 2007, Mr. Enrich, along with a team of reporters, won the SABEW Breaking News award for Wall Street Journal coverage of the resignation of Citigroup CEO Charles Prince. He was part of a team of Journal reporters who were finalists for a Loeb Award in 2008 and for a Pulitzer Prize in 2009. Prior to Newswires, Mr. Enrich was a reporter for States News Service. He served as a Washington correspondent covering Congress, the White House and federal regulatory agencies for several regional newspapers including the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Wisconsin State Journal and the Philadelphia Daily News. Mr. Enrich began his career in journalism with internships at The Nation in 2000 and at U.S. News & World Report in 2001. While in college, Mr. Enrich co-founded claremontmckenna.com, the first online newspaper at the five Claremont Colleges. A Boston native, Mr. Enrich received his Bachelor's degree in 2001 from Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. He currently lives in London. |
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| Dan Fitzpatrick The Wall Street Journal Dan Fitzpatrick is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal based in New York, where he covers the banking industry. He reports to Jared Sandberg, banking editor of the Journal's Money & Investing section. Mr. Fitzpatrick joined the paper in July 2008 in the Atlanta bureau. From 1998-2008, Mr. Fitzpatrick was a staff writer at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette covering banking, airlines, healthcare and nonprofits. In 2006, Mr. Fitzpatrick received a citation from the Overseas Press Club for best business reporting from abroad. Mr. Fitzpatrick was born in Evanston, Illinois and graduated from the University of Missouri with a B.A. in journalism. |
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Robert A. Guth Previously, Mr. Guth was a Tokyo correspondent for the Journal from 1999 to 2003 where he covered Japanese technology and business. He also served as a bureau chief for the Journal in New York. Before joining the Journal Mr. Guth was a Tokyo correspondent for International Data Group from 1994 to 1999 covering the Japanese technology industry including semiconductors, computers, video games and telecommunications. Mr. Guth earned a B.S from the University of Vermont and studied Japanese at Middlebury College. Born in Pennsylvania, Mr. Guth and his wife live in San Francisco. |
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Jon Hilsenrath Mr. Hilsenrath has been with The Wall Street Journal since 1997 and has been a part of covering a succession of financial crises, including the late 1990s Asian financial crisis, the 2000 tech bubble bust, 2001 U.S. recession, September 11 terror attacks and the latest crisis in global banking and debt markets. Before becoming an editor in 2006, he covered economics from New York and Hong Kong for six years. He also wrote the "Heard on the Street" column on stocks and markets for The Asian Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong. Prior to joining the Journal, Mr. Hilsenrath was a freelance reporter for The New York Times and Times Magazine in New York and Hong Kong and an economics and finance reporter for Knight-Ridder Financial News in Washington D.C. and New York. Mr. Hilsenrath contributed first-hand accounts and reporting from near the World Trade Center as part of The Wall Street Journal's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center attacks. His work has also been honored by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, New York Newspaper Publishers Association, the Society of Publishers in Asia, the Institute of Political Journalism, Columbia University and others. Jon is a regular guest on CNBC and ABC's Good Morning America. Born in New York, Mr. Hilsenrath received his bachelor's degree from Duke University. He was an M.B.A. exchange student at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and received an M.B.A. and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. At Columbia, he was a Knight-Bagehot fellow in 1995/1996. |
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| Mark Maremont The Wall Street Journal Mark Maremont is a senior editor at The Wall Street Journal, based in Boston. He joined the paper in May 1997 as a senior special writer in Boston and has done feature writing for the paper, focusing on general corporate coverage and investigative articles. He was named deputy bureau chief in Boston in June 2000, and was named special projects editor January 2005, and was promoted to his current position in 2007. Most recently, Mr. Maremont was part of The Wall Street Journal team that received the 2007 Pulitzer Gold Medal for Public Service for the comprehensive probe into backdated stock options. He is also the recipient of other honors for this series including: George Polk Award for business reporting; Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting; the Gerald Loeb Award; Gilbert and Ursula Farfel Prize for Investigative Journalism; SABEW (Society of American Business Editors and Writers); Philip Meyer Award for Precision Journalism; National Headliner Award for business news coverage; Business Journalists of the Year Award for Best Finance and Markets Team; New York Newspaper Publishers Association for Distinguished Business Reporting; and First Place for Newspapers in the National Press Club, Consumer Journalism Award. In addition, he was a finalist in four other awards. In 2003, Mr. Maremont was a member of a team of Journal reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting for a series of stories about corporate scandals. Mr. Maremont won a 2006 Best in Busines award in the explanatory category, sponsored by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, for his Oct. 1, 2005 article on executives using corporate jets to play golf. In 1997, Mr. Maremont won a Gerald Loeb Award in the magazine category for his 1996 Business Week cover story "Abuse of Power," reporting sexual harassment at Astra USA Inc. He was a finalist in the 1996 National Magazine Awards in the reporting category for his 1995 cover story on Bausch & Lomb Inc. A native of Chicago, Mr. Maremont graduated magna cumlaude and with honors from Brown University in Providence, RI, with a bachelor's degree in history. He also was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. |
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| Damian Paletta The Wall Street Journal Damian Paletta is a staff reporter with the Wall Street Journal in Washington, D.C. He covers banking and financial services policy and writes about Capitol Hill and federal regulators. He was part of a team of reporters who chronicled the snowballing financial crisis, with close to 100 front-page bylines in 2008 and 2009. In May 2008, Damian became the first reporter in more than a decade to accompany FDIC officials for a bank failure and wrote a first-hand account about the collapse of a community bank. Damian joined the Wall Street Journal in January 2008 after two years at Dow Jones Newswires in Washington. Prior to joining Dow Jones Newswires, he spent almost three years at the American Banker newspaper in Washington. His first job out of journalism school was as a staff reporter at the Cape Cod Times in Hyannis, Mass. He graduated from Boston College in 1999 and received a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 2002. He lives in Virginia with his wife Colleen and their children, Connor and Megan. |
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Susan Pulliam Ms. Pulliam joined the Journal in November 1990 as a reporter covering insurance and later covered pensions and institutional investing. She began writing "Heard On The Street" columns and Wall Street articles in 1992. Beginning her journalism career in 1982, Ms. Pulliam was a reporter at the Indianapolis Business Journal. She was a member of the Peace Corps in Thailand from 1983 to 1985. In March 1986, she joined Bank Letter, an Institutional Investor newsletter in New York, and in August 1988, she moved to Corporate Finance magazine. In 2008, Ms. Pulliam was part of a team that won the Scripps Howard arward for a series on the mortgage crisis. She was a finalist in 2007 for a Gerald Loeb award in the feature writing category for a profile of hedge fund manager, Steven Cohen. In June 2005, Ms. Pulliam and a group of fellow Journal reporters won the Business Award from the New York Press Club for their "Open Secrets" series, exposing questionable activities in a broad range of financial areas. In 2003, Ms. Pulliam won several awards. She was a member of a team of Journal reporters awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting for a series of stories that exposed corporate scandals, elucidated them and brought them to life in compelling narratives. Ms. Pulliam and a team of Journal reporters won a 2003 Gerald Loeb Award in deadline writing for its coverage of the WorldCom accounting scandal. Ms. Pulliam and a Journal colleague won the Society of American Business Editors and Writers award in the spot enterprise category for their page-one story "Uncooking the Books." She also won a Front Page Award from the Newswomen's Club of New York in the General Business category for the same article. In 2002, she and a Journal colleague won a George Polk Award in the financial-reporting category for a series of articles exposing how Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) created profits for itself by manipulating the system for promoting initial public offerings. They also were finalists in the deadline/beat writing category of the 2002 George Loeb Awards for their coverage of CSFB. In 1999, Ms. Pulliam and another Journal colleague received a Front Page Award in the specialized reporting category from the Newswomen's Club of New York and were finalists in the Computer Press Association's best print feature article category for their page-one article "Talking It Up." Born in Columbia, Mo., Ms. Pulliam earned a bachelor of science degree in journalism from Indiana University in Bloomington. She lives in South Orange, N.J. |
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Justin Scheck Justin Scheck is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal covering U.S. personal computer manufacturers Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. as well as West Coast legal issues, white collar crime, illicit drugs and stories about how people interact with animals. Prior to joining the Journal in October 2007, Mr. Scheck was a reporter for The Recorder in San Francisco from 2004 to 2007. Before joining The Recorder, he was the northern California reporter for the Public Education Center/Natural Resources News Service. He also served as an editor and reporter for the Mountain View Voice from 2000 to 2003. He graduated from Bates College in Lewiston, ME and currently resides in San Francisco with his wife. |
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Deborah Solomon In 2009, Ms. Solomon and other Journal reporters won an award from the Society of American Business Editor and Writers in the breaking news category for articles that ran in the paper covering the collapse of Lehman Brothers. In the same year she was also part of a team that won in the spot news category at the annual National Headliner Awards for coverage of Wall Street's collapse. Most recently, Ms. Solomon and other Journal reporters were finalists in the National Affairs category for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. In 2003, Ms. Solomon was a member of a team of Journal reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting for a series of stories that exposed corporate scandals, elucidated them and brought them to life in compelling narratives. Ms. Solomon and a Journal colleague won the Society of American Business Editors and Writers award in the spot enterprise category for their page-one story "Uncooking the Books." She was also part of a team that won the 2003 Gerald Loeb Award for the paper's coverage of the WorldCom scandal. Ms. Solomon began her journalism career as a reporter at the Birmingham Post Herald in 1994, moved to the Detroit Free Press in February 1996, joined the San Diego Union Tribune in May 1998 and five months later moved to the San Francisco Chronicle. Prior to joining the Journal, she had been a reporter for USA Today since November 1999. Born in the Bronx, New York, Ms. Solomon earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from George Washington University. |
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Brady Dennis Brady Dennis came to The Washington Post in September 2008. He previously worked as a staff writer at the St. Petersburg Times, where he covered crime, courts and government, and received the 2005 Ernie Pyle Award for human interest writing for a series called "300 Words." At the Post, he was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and a Gerald Loeb Award for a three-part series he and a colleague wrote about the rise and fall of American International Group. |
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Joseph E. Stiglitz Stiglitz was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1993-95, during the Clinton administration, and served as CEA chairman from 1995-97. He then became Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 1997-2000. In 2008 he was asked by the French President Nicolas Sarkozy to chair the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, which released its final report in September 2009. In 2009 he was appointed by the President of the United Nations General Assembly as chair of the Commission of Experts on Reform of the International Financial and Monetary System, which also released its report in September 2009. Stiglitz holds a part-time appointment at the University of Manchester as Chair of the Management Board and Director of Graduate Summer Programs at the Brooks World Poverty Institute. He serves on numerous other boards, including Amherst College's Board of Trustees and Resources for the Future. Stiglitz helped create a new branch of economics, "The Economics of Information," exploring the consequences of information asymmetries and pioneering such pivotal concepts as adverse selection and moral hazard, which have now become standard tools not only of theorists, but of policy analysts. He has made major contributions to macro-economics and monetary theory, to development economics and trade theory, to public and corporate finance, to the theories of industrial organization and rural organization, and to the theories of welfare economics and of income and wealth distribution. In the 1980s, he helped revive interest in the economics of R&D. His work has helped explain the circumstances in which markets do not work well, and how selective government intervention can improve their performance. Recognized around the world as a leading economic educator, he has written textbooks that have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He founded one of the leading economics journals, The Journal of Economic Perspectives. His book Globalization and Its Discontents (W.W. Norton June 2001) has been translated into 35 languages, besides at least two pirated editions, and in the non-pirated editions has sold more than one million copies worldwide. Other recent books include The Roaring Nineties (W.W. Norton), Towards a New Paradigm in Monetary Economics (Cambridge University Press) with Bruce Greenwald, Fair Trade for All (Oxford University Press), with Andrew Charlton, and Making Globalization Work, (WW Norton and Penguin/ Allen Lane, September 2006). His most recent book, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, with Linda Bilmes of Harvard University, was published in March 2008 by WW Norton and Penguin/ Allen Lane. His newest book, Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, was published in January 2010 by WW Norton and Penguin/ Allen Lane. |
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| Byron Harris WFAA-TV  Byron Harris is a senior reporter at WFAA-TV. During his 35 years with Belo Corp., which owns WFAA-TV, he has served as a news manager at WFAA-TV, senior producer for Prime Time Texas, and assistant news director at KHOU-TV in Houston.Harris has won several awards as a broadcast journalist. Among them: four duPont Columbia batons, including the only gold baton ever given to a local television station, the George Foster Peabody Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award, the National Press Club Award for Consumer Reporting, an Aviation and Space Writers national award, and two Gerald Loeb Awards for Business Reporting. He has received twelve Katie Awards from the Dallas Press Club and five Headliner Awards from the Headliners Foundation in Austin. He has been a contributor to Nightline and the Nightly Business Report. In addition to his TV work, he has written for The Wall Street Journal, Texas Monthly, and Air & Space magazine. Harris received his bachelor's degree in English and Sociology from the University of Michigan and a Masters in Journalism from Northwestern University. |
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Angela Hill produces investigative stories for the ABC News programs 20/20, Nightline, World News with Diane Sawyer and Good Morning America, and reports for ABCNews.com's The Blotter. She was previously a producer for Good Morning America NOW on ABC's digital network and is a graduate of The City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism. Prior to joining ABC News Angela was a Manager of Marketing for a global consulting firm and formerly worked as a freelance reporter/producer for NPR affiliates, where she won several awards including AWRT's "Gracie" award.
Joseph Rhee produces long-term and breaking news investigative reports for the ABC News programs 20/20, Nightline, World News with Diane Sawyer and Good Morning America, and reports for ABCNews.com's The Blotter. He specializes in consumer safety, corporate fraud and medical investigations. He most recently won the Edward R. Murrow Award for his coverage of the use of corporate jets by U.S. automaker executives.
Brian Ross , ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent, reports for World News with Diane Sawyer, Nightline, Good Morning America and 20/20 as well as ABC News Radio and "The Blotter" at ABCNews.com. His reports have exposed corruption at all levels of government, changed domestic laws and prompted reforms abroad. Over the years, Ross' work has been honored with journalism's top honors including four DuPont awards, five Peabody awards, five awards from the Overseas Press Club, eleven Emmys as well as two Edward R. Murrow, 5 Polk awards and the Gerald Loeb award for "The Enron Investigation".
Rhonda Schwartz, ABC News Chief Investigative Producer, runs the Brian Ross Investigative team which reports on terrorism, national security, corporate fraud, political corruption and human rights abuses for all ABC News programs and "The Blotter" at ABCNews.com. Her decades of reporting on stories including Wal-Mart's use of child labor, the Mark Foley congressional page scandal, and the influence of big money on politics have received many top honors including the DuPont, Peabody, Edward R. Murrow, Overseas Press Club, the Gerald Loeb , George Polk and a half dozen Emmy awards.
Baker, 25, joined the AP in 2006 after graduating from the University of Washington. He began as a legislative reporter in Olympia, Wash., and now works in AP's Raleigh, N.C., bureau, where he has covered John Edwards' 2008 presidential campaign, the security firm formerly known as Blackwater and criminal investigations targeting public officials.
Mike Schneider is an AP correspondent based in Orlando, Fla. He has worked 17 years for the wire service in Missouri, Maryland and Florida, covering the U.S. space program, Florida hurricanes, tourism and agriculture. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and in 2007, he took a year's leave of absence to earn a master's degree in computer mapping from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Daniel Wagner covers the Treasury and financial companies for The Associated Press in Washington, DC. He joined the AP in 2008, at the peak of the financial crisis. While covering the crisis, Dan broke stories about the close and fraught relationship between banks and the government. Prior to joining the AP, Dan reported on real estate, land use and mortgage companies for Newsday. He wrote in mid-2007 about the danger posed by bad mortgage loans that were being resold through the financial system. Dan is a graduate of Choate Rosemary Hall and Harvard University. He grew up in West Virginia.
Andy Court is an investigative producer for 60 Minutes. A graduate of Yale University, he worked as a reporter for The Concord Monitor, in Concord, New Hampshire, and later for The Jerusalem Post, where he covered the first Palestinian uprising. He was editorial director of The American Lawyer magazine before moving to television, first as an associate producer for 60 Minutes and then as a producer for Dateline NBC and 60 Minutes II. He co-produced "Children of the Harvest," an hour-long investigation of child labor in American agriculture, which won an Emmy Award in 1998. "The Mother of All Heists," about corruption in the Iraqi government, won the Loeb and DuPont awards in 2007. "The High Cost of Dying," which examined the high cost of medical care at the end of people's lives, won a Peabody award this year. This is Andy's fourth consecutive year as a Loeb finalist.
Steve Kroft was named a "60 Minutes" correspondent in May 1989 and delivered his first report that September. The 2009-10 season is his 21st on the broadcast. 
Ira Rosen is a producer for 60 Minutes. He has won 20 Emmys, six IRE awards, three Duponts, two RFK awards, and a Peabody. He was senior producer of Prime Time Live and 20.20. He was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University and co-wrote a book on the Accident at Three Mile island.
Greg Sandoval covers digital media for CNET News and has broken stories on Apple, Microsoft, YouTube, The Pirate Bay, and on the digital efforts of the major music labels and Hollywood studios. He began his journalism career at the Los Angeles Times and later spent three years as a staff writer for The Washington Post. Greg is an alumnus of the University of Southern California.
Christine Tierney covers foreign-based auto manufacturers for The Detroit News. She joined the newspaper in August, 2003, after working for 3½ years for Business Week magazine. She wrote about the European auto industry from Frankfurt for three years, before moving to Detroit to cover the Chrysler Group.
Michael Rapoport has written the "In the Money" column for Dow Jones Newswires since 1999, focusing on finance and accounting and delving beneath the surface of corporate balance sheets and earnings statements to uncover the true financial condition of public companies. He has been a reporter for more than 20 years, and holds a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has won several awards, including a 2001 National Headliner Award, a 2007 "Best in Business" Award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and a 2009 "Business Journalists of the Year" Award from the World Leadership Forum.
Nicholas Varchaver is an assistant managing editor at Fortune and has written and edited for the magazine since 1999. He has written about corporate espionage at Hewlett-Packard; the threat to oil infrastructure in Louisiana; CA's struggles to shed a culture of dysfunction and corruption; a lawyer caught up in the Tyco scandal; and an "inventor" who squeezed $1.5 billion out of corporations for things he didn't actually invent.
Dan Margolies joined The Kansas City Star in January 2000 as legal affairs reporter on the business desk before joining Reuters in November 2009 as financial crimes reporter. Before joining The Star, he was a legal affairs reporter for the Kansas City Business Journal. Prior to becoming a journalist, he was a lawyer, practicing with a large law firm in Boston. Margolies received his bachelor's degree from Washington University in St. Louis and holds master's and law degrees from Boston University.
Rick Montgomery, 50, is a national correspondent who joined The Star in 1986.
Ken Bensinger has been a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times since 2007. He is currently an enterprise/investigations reporter for the Business section, with a broad mandate to produce original, high-profile stories. He previously covered the auto industry, where he reported on the bankruptcies of GM and Chrysler as well as the fledgling eletric vehicle market, among other topics. Prior to his current post, Bensinger worked for SmartMoney magazine, covering banking and handling investigations. From 2001 to 2005, he was based in Mexico City, reporting for the Christian Science Monitor, Variety and the Houston Chronicle. Bensinger began his career at the Wall Street Journal, where he worked from 1998 until 2001, covering the art market, among other topics. He was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer prize in national reporting, the Michael Kelly Award and a Scripps-Howard award for his coverage of Toyota. Raised in Seattle, Bensinger graduated from Duke University in 1997.
Ralph Vartabedian, a national correspondent at the Los Angeles Times, joined the newspaper in 1981. He covered aerospace and defense issues for 10 years at the Times, covering the military buildup that preceded the end of the Cold War and its decline afterward. He spent five years as a Washington, D.C. reporter for the paper and then four years as deputy business editor. In his many reporting assignments, he has written on presidential candidates, environmental contamination, nuclear weapons, immigration, airliner crashes, tax collection abuse, levee failures and space shuttle accidents, among much else. He won a Loeb in 1987 and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2010, among other recognitions. He previously worked at the Minneapolis Star and the Kalamazoo Gazette as a business writer. He was born in Detroit, Mich., and graduated from the University of Michigan with a master's degree in economics and a bachelor's degree in journalism.
Chris Adams joined the McClatchy Washington Bureau's investigative team in 2003, and previously worked for The Wall Street Journal and The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune.
Greg Gordon, an investigative reporter, has spent 33 years uncovering waste, fraud, abuse and misconduct in Washington.
Kevin G. Hall has been McClatchy's national economics correspondent since January 2005, prior to that he was the Brazil-based South America bureau chief, where he won the 2004 Sigma Delta Chi award from the Society for Professional Journalists for his investigative series on modern day slavery in the Amazon and how those products feed into U.S. consumption. From 1989 to 1999, Hall worked for the Journal of Commerce, a paper focused on international trade, in Washington, Los Angeles, Mexico and Miami. Hall is an elected board member of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, an avid sailor and guitarist and is married to Clara Gonzalez de Hall. They have two daughters, Alexis and Maya.
Rob Barry joined The Miami Herald as a computer-assisted reporter in 2007. He has contributed reporting and analysis to award-winning projects, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning series, "House of Lies."
Lucy Komisar is a freelance investigative reporter who covers the global financial system, including offshore bank and corporate secrecy and its links to corporate crime, pay-to-play politics, drug trafficking and terrorism. She is the author of several books, including: "BCCI's Double Game: Banking on America, Banking on Jihad" in A Game As Old As Empire, (Berrett-Koehler, San Francisco, 2007).
Michael Sallah is an investigative reporter and editor at The Miami Herald who has won numerous national and state awards for his work over the years, including investigations into white-collar fraud, clerical abuse and major regulatory breakdowns in financial markets. He was co-winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for uncovering the longest series of atrocities by a U.S. fighting unit in the Vietnam War and subsequent cover up by the Pentagon.
Raquel Rutledge is an investigative reporter with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Watchdog Team and has spent the past year and a half uncovering widespread fraud in Wisconsin's child-care subsidy program. Her recent series "Cashing in on Kids" exposed a trail of phony companies, fake reports and shoddy oversight costing taxpayers millions of dollars. The stories prompted sweeping reforms, new laws and a crackdown on unscrupulous child-care providers. Regulators cut public funding to more than 170 providers suspected of cheating the program and several have been sent to prison. The "Cashing in on Kids" series won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting as well as a George Polk Award, the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Rutledge joined the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel staff in 2004 from the Colorado Springs Gazette, where she spent nearly seven years covering education, the military and city hall. 
Charles Duhigg is a reporter for The New York Times, based in New York.
Andrew Martin has covered consumer banking and the food business for the New York Times, which he joined in October 2007. Before joining The Times, Mr. Martin worked at The Chicago Tribune for 14 years, covering food policy and agriculture in the Washington bureau and politics at Chicago's City Hall. He was part of a team of reporters that won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism. Mr. Martin, who lives in New Jersey, was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University in 2002-2003. 
Liaquat Ahamed has been a professional investment manager for 25 years. He has worked at the World Bank in Washington D.C., and the New York based partnership of Fischer Francis Trees and Watts, where he served as Chief Executive. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Angie C. Marek joined SmartMoney magazine in 2007 as a staff writer specializing in the intersection of health care and personal finance. She's written about topics including the finances of hospitals, doctors delivering care over the Internet, and the art of haggling over the price of care. She's twice been a nominee for a Deadline Club Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. The Association of Health Care Journalists gave her one of their three beat reporting prizes in 2008. 
As a personal finance journalist, Janet Paskin has covered a broad spectrum of the financial services industry-from the people who run your 401(k) to the fund companies that sold would-be retirees on one-size-fits-all investments like target-date funds to the GenY advisors coaching clients their parents' age on retirement strategies. First at Money Magazine, then at SmartMoney, she wrote about taxes, mutual fund investing, retirement planning, public policy and behavioral finance. Now, as the managing editor of Bundle.com, she is creating a personal finance destination aimed at people in their 20s and 30s. Paskin is a graduate of Oberlin College and the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University; in the early 2000s, she won several awards for her work as a sports reporter and wrote a book about the 1962 New York Mets.
Jim Gallagher has worked for the Post-Dispatch for 20 years, six of them as an editorial writer and 14 as a covering financial services. He writes a Sunday column on personal finance and investing. He is a 1973 graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism
Matthew Hathaway has worked at the Post-Dispatch since 2000. His past assignments include five years covering crime in Missouri's Jefferson County, including more than 100 stories about methamphetamine manufacturing, interdiction and drug-treatment efforts. For two years, he wrote a column dedicated to reader complaints about municipal governments and neighborhood problems. He started covering the consumer beat in February 2009. A St. Louis native, Hathaway is married and has two young daughters.
Elizabethe Holland is a general assignment reporter at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She is in her 15th year at the Post-Dispatch, where she has worked in news, sports and features. She has been involved in several investigative projects and stories at the newspaper, and was on the team that earned 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist honors in the breaking news category. Holland previously worked at the Las Vegas Sun and the Northwest Florida Daily News. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a master's from The Ohio State University.
David Enrich is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal. He covers U.K. banking and regulatory policy.
Jon Hilsenrath is the cheif economics correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and is based in Washington. He is responsible for covering the Federal Reserve. In cooperation with reporters in the economics and other bureaus, he also covers major developments in the U.S. and global economies for all print and on-line editions of The Wall Street Journal and contributes to WSJ.com's Real Time Economics site. Prior to his current position, Mr. Hilsenrath was Markets Editor, overseeing global coverage of stock, bond and currency markets.
Susan Pulliam is an investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal, covering the financial industry.
Deborah Solomon is a reporter in the Washington, D.C. bureau of The Wall Street Journal, covering economic policy. Previously, she covered the Securities and Exchange Commission and financial regulation. Ms. Solomon joined the Journal's New York bureau in May 2000, covering technology and telecommunications.
David Cho has been a staff writer at The Washington Post since 2001 and has covered the financial markets and the Treasury Department since the outbreak of the credit crisis. He contributed to the paper's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting massacre. Before The Post, he worked at The Star Ledger where he was a member of the team that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in breaking news for its coverage of a deadly dorm fire at Seton Hall University. His financial crisis reporting won the Best of Knight-Bagehot Business Journalism award in 2008. He attended the Juilliard School of Music before college and is a graduate of Yale University. He also earned an M.A. with honors from the Columbia School of Journalism and an MBA with honors from Columbia Business School. 
Steven Pearlstein has written a business and economics column for the Washington Post since 2003. He began his career at the Post in 1988 as deputy business editor, and in successive years served as defense industry reporter, Canadian correspondent and economics correspondent. In 2008 he launched the Post's On Leadership web site. In 2008 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for commentary for columns in 2007 anticipating the financial crisis and the ensuing recession. He is the first business writer ever to win the Pulitzer in that category He is also a past winner of the Loeb award for commentary and the "Best in Business" award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. In 2009, Atlantic magazine named him one of the 50 most influential columnists in America. Before coming to the Post, Pearlstein was a senior editor at Inc. magazine, the founding editor and publisher of the Boston Observer and a television reporter with Boston's public television station, WGBH-TV. He served as administrative assistant in Washington to former Sen. John Durking of New Hampshire and Rep. Michael Harrington of Massachusetts, both Democrats. He began his career as a reporter for two New Hampshire daily newspapers, Foster's Daily Democrat and the Concord Monitor. Pearlstein grew up in Brookline, Mass. and graduated with honors from Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. He now lives in Washington with his wife, Wendy Gray. He has two grown children, Laura and Eli. 
Michael Shear joined the Washington Post's White House team the day after Barack Obama was elected president, covering his transition, inauguration and first fifteen months in office. He has documented the president's early struggles to assemble an administration, his attempts to stabilize the failing economy, the emergence of a new policy of global engagement and the year-long battle over health care reform. Prior to joining the White House team, Shear was the lead reporter for the Post's coverage of the Republican presidential candidates, spending 20 months on the campaign trail with John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson and the rest. An 18-year veteran of the Post, Shear spent five years covering politics in Virginia. 
Michael Lewis joined Vanity Fair as a contributing editor in February 2009. He has published nine books, all but one of them New York Times best sellers. His most recent, The Blind Side (Norton, 2006), tells the story of an African American kid living on the streets of Memphis whose life is transformed after he is adopted by white evangelical Christians. Other works include Moneyball (Norton, 2003), an examination of baseball that focuses on the way markets value people; The New New Thing (Norton, 2000), about Silicon Valley during the Internet boom; Losers (Vintage, 2000), about the 1996 presidential campaign; and Liar’s Poker (Norton, 1989), based in part on Lewis’s experience working as an investment banker on Wall Street. He writes often for The New York Times Magazine, and his articles have also appeared in The New Yorker, Gourmet, Sports Illustrated, Foreign Affairs, and Poetry magazine. He has served as an editor and columnist at the British weekly The Spectator and as a senior editor and campaign correspondent at The New Republic. For the BBC, he made a four-part documentary on the social consequences of the Internet, and he has filmed and narrated short pieces for ABC’s Nightline. Having grown up in New Orleans, Lewis remains deeply interested and involved in the city. He holds a B.A. in art history from Princeton and an MSc in economics from the London School of Economics. Lewis and his wife, Tabitha Soren, live in Berkeley, California, with their three children, Quinn, Dixie, and Walker. In spring 2009, he will publish Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood (Norton), about his attempts to raise them.
Nina Munk began writing for Vanity Fair in 2000 and became a contributing editor in 2001, reporting on the business world. Her articles include an analysis of the management struggles between AOL and Time Warner, a profile of Steve Wynn, and an examination of the rise and fall of Wall Street's celebrity analysts, for which she won a Front Page Award. She has also won three Business Journalist of the Year awards. Before joining Vanity Fair, Munk was a senior writer at Fortune and, previously, a senior editor at Forbes. Munk is the author of Fools Rush In: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner (HarperCollins, 2004). 
Joseph E. Stiglitz was born in Gary, Indiana in 1943. A graduate of Amherst College, he received his PHD from MIT in 1967, became a full professor at Yale in 1970, and in 1979 was awarded the John Bates Clark Award, given biennially by the American Economic Association to the economist under 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the field. He has taught at Princeton, Stanford, MIT and was the Drummond Professor and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is now University Professor at Columbia University in New York and Chair of Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought. He is also the co-founder and Executive Director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information, and he was a lead author of the 1995 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Michael Wolff joined Vanity Fair as a contributing editor in 2004. He writes a monthly column on the media and politics. Prior to joining Vanity Fair, he wrote a weekly column called "This Media Life" for New York magazine. Wolff began his career at The New York Times. He has won two National Magazine Awards and been nominated three times. His books include the best-seller Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet (Simon & Schuster, 1998) and Autumn of the Moguls (HarperBusiness, 2003). 
Mark Smith became an investigative producer at WFAA- TV in Dallas, after 15 years as a newspaper reporter with The San Antonio Express-News and The Houston Chronicle. He enjoys producing news series that impact lives. One series led to the dismissal of drug charges against more than 70 defendants, and convictions of four police officers and three drug informants. Another series led to revamped policies and the closure of the Texas Workers' Compensation Commission, while another series led to the removal of tens of thousands of gas couplings that had been overlooked despite two decades of deadly home explosions. Other series showed how the U.S. Export-Import Bank made nearly a quarter-billion dollars of loans to Mexican businesses and cartel-connected individuals without verifying basic facts. Since joining WFAA in 2000, series he produced have won a Loeb, IRE, and Jack R. Howard awards, three Peabody awards and four duPont-Columbia University batons, including a gold baton - the first time a local station has received such an honor.