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Over the course of the past year, his exclusive investigative reports on the Times Square Bomber, Ft. Hood Shooter, the Underwear Bomber and the Printer Bomb plot led the network's coverage. Most recently his 20/20 investigation of sexual abuse of Peace Corps volunteers has led to congressional hearings, and his expose of a "pay-to-play" grading system by the Better Business Bureau has led to major changes within that organization. Ross's investigative reports have exposed corruption at all levels of government, led to changes in domestic laws and prompted reforms abroad. Ross and his team most recently made headlines and won an Edward R. Murrow award for their groundbreaking reports on auto company CEOs who flew in private jets to ask for public money in Washington. The Ross lead investigative team also won a 2010 duPont award for their investigation "The Coach's Secret" - which exposed a major sex abuse scandal in youth swimming. In January 2010, as ABC News informed Toyota that Brian Ross' latest investigation into sudden unexplained acceleration in Toyotas was about to air, the company announced the recall of 2.3 million vehicles to correct sticking accelerator pedals. This marked one of the largest automobile recalls in history. When the Bernard Madoff scandal broke in December 2008, Ross was at the forefront of the investigation into this multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme, breaking news on Madoff, his family and associates, and how the scam was perpetrated over so many years. Ross' extensive reporting on the subject led to his first book, "The Madoff Chronicles: Inside the Secret World of Bernie and Ruth," a "New York Times" best seller published in fall 2009. In 2006 Ross broke the Mark Foley-congressional page scandal for ABC News, reporting the first details on "The Blotter" on ABCNEWS.com. Within a day of being questioned by ABC News, the congressman had resigned. Ross has received numerous honors for his reporting on this story, including an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, a USC Annenberg Walter Cronkite Award, an IRE Award, the 2007 National Headliner Award for Television Affiliated Online Journalism, and the Online News Association Journalism Award. Ross received the 2007 Edward R. Murrow award for investigative reporting for a two-part "20/20" undercover investigation into retail pharmacy errors, focusing on large drug store chains, including CVS and Walgreens . He was also honored with a 2007 Business Emmy for his work for exposing conflicts of interest of some West Virginia State Supreme court justices. Well known for his work in national security reporting, Ross' was the first to reveal new details on the existence of secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe, where top al Qaeda figures were held. The exclusive 3-part investigation, which aired on "World News" and "Nightline," garnered a 2005 George Polk Award, the fifth time he has won the award in his career. His noted undercover investigation of nuclear smuggling which questioned whether American authorities could stop a shipment of radioactive material from entering the country earned him his third duPont Award, one of the most prestigious honors in journalism. Ross has also reported extensively on international human rights abuses winning numerous top journalism awards for exposes on the sale of executed prisoners' kidneys in China; sweatshop labor in Saipan and sexual misconduct by U.N. peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo. During the 2008 political season, Ross continued his award-winning "Money Trail" reporting, focusing on the corporate presence at the 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions. Ross and his team first launched the Emmy award-winning series at the 1996 conventions. Following September 11, 2001, Ross and the Investigative Unit broke numerous stories about the investigation into the terrorist attacks and anthrax letters. Among several exclusive reports, Ross was the first reporter to name Mohammed Atta and describe him as the ringleader of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. He was also the first to report on Zacarias Moussaoui's alleged role in the attacks and his questioning by the FBI prior to September 11th. His "Primetime Thursday" story about the hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93 featured the first airing of transmissions between the plane's cockpit and air traffic controllers. In addition to filing for all ABC News' broadcasts, Ross files reports for ABC News Radio, available to 2,500 affiliates around the country. He also reports throughout the day for the Investigative Unit's website, "The Blotter," on ABCNEWS.com. Since launching in April 2006, the Blotter has quickly become one of the most popular destinations on ABCNEWS.com, receiving an average of 5 million readers a month. Ross's work has been repeatedly honored with the most prestigious awards in journalism, including six duPont awards, five Peabody awards, five Polk awards, five awards from the Overseas Press Club, twelve Emmys and three Edward R. Murrow Awards and many more. Prior to joining ABC News, Ross worked for 20 years at NBC News, reporting for the "NBC Nightly News" and "Dateline NBC." In an award-winning two-part report for "Dateline NBC" in 1992, Ross exposed Wal-Mart's use of child labor in overseas sweatshops to provide clothing for their "Buy American" campaign. Ross also broke stories on the French Intelligence spying on American businessmen and was the first reporter to track down the fugitive Marc Rich at his Saint Moritz hideaway. Ross solidified his reputation for investigative reporting by breaking stories such as the 1980 ABSCAM story, for which he was honored with a National Headliner Award. His exclusive report in March 1990 about Iraq trying to buy trigger mechanisms for nuclear weapons just months before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait made headlines worldwide. His five-part "NBC Nightly News" series on the Teamsters Union won the 1976 Sigma Delta Chi Award and a National Headliner Award. In 1977, he won a National Headliner Award for a five-part study of organized crime in the United States. Ross began his professional career in 1971 as a reporter at KWWL-TV in Waterloo, Iowa. He later worked at WCKT-TV in Miami and WKYC-TV in Cleveland. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa. |
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| Mark Schone ABC News |
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He has received numerous honors for the production of various investigative reports. Before joining ABC News Walter worked 12 years for NBC News |
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Kara Swisher
She and Mossberg are also the co-executive editors of a tech and media Web site, AllThingsD.com (www.allthingsd.com), where her online-only version of the "BoomTown" column appears. Kara Swisher worked in The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau. For many years, she wrote the column, "BoomTown," which appeared on the front page of the Marketplace section and also on The Wall Street Journal Online at WSJ.com. Previously, Ms. Swisher covered breaking news about the Web's major players and Internet policy issues and also wrote feature articles on technology for the paper. She has also written a weekly column for the Personal Journal on home issues called "Home Economics." Previously, Ms. Swisher worked as a reporter at the Washington Post and as an editor at the City Paper of Washington, D.C. She received her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and her graduate degree at Columbia University's School of Journalism. She is also the author of "aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads and Made Millions in the War for the Web," published by Times Business Books in July 1998. The sequel, "There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future," was published in the fall of 2003 by Crown Business Books. |
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Justin Pritchard
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Frederik Balfour
Though native to Canada, Mr. Balfour has spent most of his life abroad, he has lived in Europe, Central America and now lives in Asia since 1992. Prior to joining Businessweek, he was the deputy bureau chief for Agence France Presse in Vietnam, a position that he held since 1995. In Vietnam, he was also a BusinessWeek stringer and appeared regularly on BBC. Mr. Balfour first came to Asia in 1986 on a McGraw-Hill Correspondent's Fund Fellowship. He has written for many international publications on politics, economics and finance, including Far Eastern Economic Review, International Herald Tribune, The Globe and Mail and the San Francisco Examiner. Mr. Balfour has seen his share of combat and conflict, covering the Jakarta riots of 1998, East Timor in 1999, and 10 weeks in Pakistan covering the Afghan War. Mr. Balfour has a master's degree from the London School of Economics, a master's degree in journalism, and a Ph.D. in economics from Berkeley. |
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Tim Culpan
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His reporting has been recognized with honors including the George Polk Award, the Gerald Loeb Award and the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award. A graduate of the University of Southern California Law Center, he spent five years prosecuting fraud for the U.S. government for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission before joining Bloomberg. |
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Golden joined Portfolio in October 2007 after eight years at The Wall Street Journal, where he won a Pulitzer Prize in 2004 for a series of articles on preferences for children of alumni and donors in college admissions. He expanded that series into a critically acclaimed national best-seller, "The Price of Admission." Prior to The Wall Street Journal, Golden spent 18 years as a staff reporter at the Boston Globe. He has won numerous honors aside from the Pulitzer, including three George Polk awards, three National Headliner awards, the Sigma Delta Chi award, the New York Press Club Gold Keyboard award, the Education Writers Association Grand Prize, and seven Education Writers Association first-place finishes. Golden and his colleagues were Pulitzer finalists in 2011 for a series of stories on for-profit colleges that recruit low-income students, often to leave them with debt and no degree. A 1978 Harvard graduate, Golden lives in Belmont, Mass., with his wife and son. |
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| Alan Katz Bloomberg News |
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Cam Simpson is a London-based projects and investigative reporter for Bloomberg News, where he focuses on Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Previously, he was a Middle East correspondent and Washington correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, and a Washington-based correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. He did international investigative projects for the Tribune and also covered terrorism, national security and foreign affairs. Prior to those assignments, he covered federal crime and organized crime in Chicago for the Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times. He's a two-time winner of the George Polk Award, in 2003 for national reporting and in 2005 for international reporting. He's been honored twice by the Overseas Press Club of America, including for human rights reporting, and is the recipient of numerous other awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the Sidney Hillman Prize for Newspaper Journalism and the National Press Club's prize for diplomatic reporting. Mr. Simpson and his work on human trafficking to U.S. military bases in Iraq were the subject of the Emmy-Award winning PBS documentary, "Blame Somebody Else," which first aired in 2006. |
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Patrick Ahearn is CNBC's Lead Editor of Long Form documentaries and a twenty-year veteran of the network. He is a winner of numerous awards including the Peabody, the du Pont, the Emmy and the Cable Ace, and the only editor of long form/magazine projects to win 1st Place in the NPPA Best of Photojournalism Contest three years in a row. His credits include The Age of Wal-Mart, Big Brother/Big Business, Inside the Mind of Google and The Facebook Obsession. Last year, he was honored with a Loeb Award in the Television Enterprise category for his contribution to House of Cards, CNBC's full-length exposé on the 2008 economic crisis. |
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| Steven Banton CNBC |
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| Emily Bodenberg CNBC |
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An original member of the CNBC on-air team, Senior Correspondent Scott Cohn also appears on "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams," "Today," and MSNBC. |
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During his 25-year career, which includes a lengthy stint as a staff producer for NBC's Dateline, Jonathan Dann has received nearly every major broadcast journalism award, including three Peabody Awards and three duPont-Columbia Awards - generally considered the profession's highest honors. In January of 2007, he won his third duPont-Columbia Award for producing the PBS special War Stories from Ward #7D, which followed the struggles of Iraq War veterans suffering from traumatic brain injury. Jon Dann also produced the highest rated program in the history of CNBC ("America's business channel"), Marijuana Inc: Inside America's Pot Industry in 2009. The hour-long documentary has aired over 100 times both nationally and internationally and was nominated for a national Emmy. "(Jon) Dann's dedication... was enormous, his enthusiasm was contagious, and his ability to connect with people was contagious," CNBC Correspondent Trish Reagan recently wrote in her new book on the subject. Dann's other CNBC productions include the following: Tom Brokaw Reports: Boomer$!, a two-hour documentary on the legacy and challenges of the baby boom generation, featuring in-depth interviews with President Bill Clinton and actor Tom Hanks, reported by NBC Senior Correspondent Tom Brokaw, with whom Dann collaborated closely as the program's creator and senior producer; Goldman Sachs: Power and Peril, which recently was nominated for a Gerald Loeb Award; and Swoosh! Inside Nike, which was nominated for a national Emmy. Before his death in 1998, TV news legend Fred Friendly (George Clooney's character in the movie feature Good Night and Good Luck) praised Jon Dann in a speech before the Radio and Television News Directors Association. In her recently published memoir, San Francisco television anchor/reporter Belva Davis wrote the following about Dann: "... a high-octane producer... fearless - a guy who felt endowed to crack open the earth if necessary to get the news." Throughout his career, Dann's groundbreaking, investigative reports on topics as diverse as Iran-Contra, the Robert Philip Hanssen spy case, and mishaps with U.S. nuclear weapons have sparked national headlines. From 1997-2000, Jon Dann was a staff producer at Dateline NBC where his work included long-form magazine stories - several of which were the highest rated programs that evening on network television - as well as tight deadline "crashes." After leaving NBC News in 2000, Dann began producing independently. Since then, his work has ranged from in-depth reports for CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, PBS' NewsHour, to a front-page, investigative article for the Sunday Los Angeles Times. From 1980-1996, he was a producer and senior producer at KRON-TV in San Francisco. His hour-long look at homeless children and their families I Want to Go Home was awarded a George Foster Peabody Award in 1989. His documentary The War Within, which profiled Vietnam veterans trying to rebuild their shattered lives inside a government psychiatric hospital, garnered a duPont-Columbia Award, a Robert F. Kennedy Award, and a Certificate of Special Merit from the Academy Awards. His groundbreaking series Heat on the Left about government surveillance of peace groups during the Reagan Administration was named Most Censored News Story of the Year in 1986. In 1983, he co-produced Climate of Death, about nine Americans who lost their lives in El Salvador. That program received a duPont-Columbia Award and a George Foster Peabody Award. Dann is also the recipient of 12 regional Emmy's. Jon Dann began his career at KQED-TV, San Francisco's public station, where he co-produced Broken Arrow: Can a Nuclear Weapons Accident Happen Here, which was awarded a George Polk Award and a George Foster Peabody Award in 1979. The project also resulted in a lengthy investigative report co-authored by Dann in Rolling Stone Magazine. Jonathan Dann is a graduate of The Taft School and Stanford University. He lives in Mill Valley, California. |
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An Emmy, Peabody, duPont, Loeb award winner and New York Times best-selling author, David Faber is host of CNBC's "The Strategy Session" (M-F, 12PM ET). Faber is also an anchor and co-producer of CNBC's acclaimed original documentaries and long-form programming as well as a contributor to CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" (M-F 9-11AM ET). |
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| Richard Korn CNBC |
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| Lisa Orlando CNBC |
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Jeffrey Pohlman has spent the past 20 years producing specials, profiles and investigative reports for CNBC, NBC and CNN including pieces about airport security, cults, government corruption, national security and corporate malfeasance. He has traveled extensively in this country and around the world overseeing productions in India, the United Arab Emirates, Spain, Central & South America, Poland, Morocco, Mexico, China, Saudi Arabia and Russia. He has produced more than two dozen documentaries including CNBC in India, The Kingdom Built on Oil, China Watch, Alan Greenspan: Money, Power and the American Dream, The Hunt for Black Gold, Warren Buffett: The Billionaire Next Door, The Bubble Decade, Cigarette Wars and Remington Under Fire. Pohlman has produced hundreds of breaking news packages and he's covered politics extensively. In 2003 he produced his first White House/President Bush special, the second in 2005. He's produced profiles of Presidents Clinton and Gorbachev, Governors Palin, Pataki, Jeb Bush, and Schweitzer, Rudy Giuliani, John Kerry, First Lady Laura Bush, Karl Rove, Tom Ridge, John Edwards, and dozens of other influential leaders in America and around the world. Pohlman lives with his wife and two young sons in New York City and is currently the Senior Producer with CNBC's Investigative unit. |
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| James Segelstein CNBC |
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Clem Taylor is a producer with the CBS News magazine, 60 Minutes. He has been a news and documentary producer with CNBC, ABC News, the Fox Network and ESPN. Prior to his work in television, Taylor was a Washington-based reporter for NPR. |
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| Gary Vandenbergh CNBC |
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| Bob Waldman CNBC |
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Mitch Weitzner is Senior Executive Producer of Long Form Programming at CNBC, where he's overseen documentary production since 2006. Prior to that, he spent two decades producing stories for 48 Hours, The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, and 60 Minutes. He was honored with a 2010 Loeb Award for his work on the CNBC documentary, House of Cards. |
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Greg Gardner
He is married and has two sons. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. in finance from Wayne State University. |
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industry for Reuters and The Associated Press in Detroit for seven years, and spent two years covering telecommunications for Reuters from Washington. A Missouri native, Hyde is a University of Missouri graduate. He lives in Maryland with his wife and two children. |
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Elizabeth Conley
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I'm a native of Northern New York, growing up along the peaceful waters of the St. Lawrence River. I attended Bowling Green State University in northwestern Ohio and graduated with a journalism degree. I've worked as a reporter in Auburn, N.Y., and as a page designer and graphic artist at The Times of Northwest Indiana and The Cincinnati Enquirer. I'm currently a graphic artist at The Detroit News and live in Dearborn, Mich., with my wife, Jennifer, and two daughters, Madeleine and Amelie |
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He is the author of Drowning in Oil: BP and the Reckless Pursuit of Profit published by McGraw-Hill in 2010 and The Man Who Thought Like a Ship, which is scheduled to be published by Texas A&M University Press in early 2012. Before joining the Chronicle in April 2004, Steffy was Dallas bureau chief and a senior writer for Bloomberg News in Dallas for 12 years. Steffy has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Texas A&M University. |
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John Fauber
His awards include the 2010 National Headliner Award for medical/health/science writing for his ongoing "Side Effects" series on conflicts of interest at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine; the 2010 silver Barlett & Steele Award for Investigative Business Reporting for the expanded "Side Effects" series; the 2004 Howard L. Lewis Achievement Award for a five-year collection of stories focusing on heart disease and stroke; the 2003 American Society for Microbiology's Public Communications Award for two stories he co-authored on prion diseases in humans and animals; and the 1992 Gerald Loeb Award for business and financial writing for the series "Adios Wisconsin" about Wisconsin corporations moving jobs to Mexico. He also was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism for two stories he co-authored that were part of a five-part series on chronic wasting disease. As a medical reporter his primary beats are heart disease, cancer and neurology. Since 2009 much of Fauber's reporting has been devoted to the ongoing series on conflicts of interest that can compromise a doctor's judgment. Fauber has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. |
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| Glenn Howatt Minneapolis Star Tribune |
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| Chris Serres Minneapolis Star Tribune |
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| David Barboza The New York Times |
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| Jo Becker The New York Times |
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Graham Bowley
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Keith Bradsher
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| Shan Carter The New York Times |
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| Amanda Cox The New York Times |
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| Matthew Ericson The New York Times |
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Miguel Helft
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Andrew Jacobs
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| Paul Krugman The New York Times |
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Before coming to The Times, Ron helped develop the personal finance Web site FiLife and wrote for The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company and Fortune. He's the author or co-author of three books, including The New York Times bestseller "Taking Time Off," which encouraged young adults to take a year off between high school and college or sometime during their undergraduate years. His first story in The Times was an op-ed about sexual assault and campus judicial systems that appeared during his junior year at Amherst. |
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John Markoff
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| Bill Marsh The New York Times |
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| Gretchen Morgenson The New York Times |
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Before joining The Times in 2005, 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. He was the Profit Motive columnist at GQ until May 1995, and he wrote the same column for Esquire from 1988 until 1990. In the 1980's, he served as a contributing editor at Newsweek, as executive editor of New England Monthly and as senior editor at Texas Monthly. From 1978 until 1980, he was an editor at The Washington Monthly. Mr. Nocera's column ranges widely over the world of business and finance, with a particular focus on the intersection of business and public policy. Slate magazine wrote that his Talking Business column, which ran in The Times for six years, "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, including the 2008 award for commentary, and three John Hancock awards for excellence in business journalism. A 2007 Pulitzer finalist, he is the author of three books. "A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class," (Touchstone, 1995) won the New York Public Library's 1995 Helen Bernstein Award as the best non-fiction book of the year. He has also written "Good Guys and Bad Guys: Behind The Scenes With The Saints and Scoundrels of American Business (and Everything In Between)" (Portfolio, 2008), and, most recently, "All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis (Portfolio 2010), which he co-authored with Bethany McLean. Mr. Nocera earned a B.S. in journalism from Boston University in 1974. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island on May 6, 1952, and lives in New York City. |
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| Kevin Quealy The New York Times |
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Catherine Rampell
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David E. Sanger
In 2010, Mr. Sanger was also appointed adjunct professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, where he is also a non-resident visiting scholar. Soon after joining the Times in 1982, Mr. Sanger began specializing in the confluence of economic and foreign policy. Throughout the '80's and '90's, he wrote extensively about how issues of national wealth and competitiveness came to redefine the relationships between the United States and its major allies. He was correspondent and then bureau chief in Tokyo for six years, travelling widely in Asia. He wrote some of the first pieces describing North Korea's nuclear weapons program, the rise and fall of Japan as one of the world's economic powerhouses, and China's emerging role. Returning to Washington in 1994, he took up the position of Chief Washington Economic Correspondent, and covered a series of global economic upheavals, from Mexico to the Asian economic crisis. He was named a senior writer in March 1999, and White House correspondent later that year. He was named Chief Washington Correspondent in October 2006. In 1986 Mr. Sanger played a major role in the team that investigated the causes of the space shuttle Challenger disaster. The team revealed the design flaws and bureaucratic troubles that contributed to the disaster, and won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. A decade later he was a member of another Pulitzer-winning team that wrote about the Clinton administration's struggles to control exports to China. Mr. Sanger was also awarded, in 2004, the Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting for his coverage of the Iraq and Korea crises. He also won the Aldo Beckman prize for coverage of the presidency. In both 2003 and 2007 he was awarded the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for coverage of national security strategy. He also shared the American Society of Newspaper Editor's top award for deadline writing in 2004, for team coverage of the Columbia disaster. In 2007, The New York Times received the DuPont Award from the Columbia Journalism School for Nuclear Jihad: Can Terrorists Get the Bomb?, a documentary featuring Mr. Sanger and his colleague William J. Broad, and their investigation into the A.Q. Khan nuclear proliferation network. Their revelations in the Times about the network became a finalist for the Pultizer Prize. Mr. Sanger appears regularly on public affairs and news shows, including "Washington Week'' on PBS, and the three main Sunday news shows, "Face the Nation,'' "Meet the Press'' and "This Week.'' He also delivers the weekly "Washington Report on WQXR, part of New York Public Radio. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group. Born on July 5, 1960 in White Plains, NY, Mr. Sanger was educated in the public school system and graduated magna cum laude in government from Harvard College in 1982. |
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| David Segal The New York Times |
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| Brad Stone The New York Times |
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Louise Story
Louise joined the Times staff in 2006. She previously wrote for The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Hartford Courant, The Orlando Sentinel and The Yale Daily News. Louise earned a master's degree in journalism at Columbia University and an M.B.A. and a B.A. in American Studies at Yale University. Louise lives in New York City with her husband and two small dogs. In her free time, she cycles, runs and is is a rock climber. |
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Darren Gersh
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Michael LaBella
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Sebastian Mallaby
Mallaby's latest book More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite was released in June 2010. New York Times columnist David Brooks has called it "superb." Washington Post columnist Steve Pearlstein has called it "the definitive history of the hedge fund history, a compelling narrative full of larger-than-life characters and dramatic tales of their financial triumphs and reversals." More Money Than God has been listed among the top six business books of 2010 by the judges of the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs prize and is a New York Times Bestseller. Mallaby's previous books are The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations and After Apartheid: The Future of South Africa. The first was named as an "Editor's Choice" by the New York Times and became a Washington Post bestseller. An essay in the Financial Times commented that "Mallaby's book may well be the most hilarious depiction of a big organization and its controversial boss since Michael Lewis's, Liar's Poker." |
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Ralph Cipriano
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Froma Harrop
Media Matters ranks her column 20th nationally in total readership and 14th in large newspaper concentration. It was named one of Editor& Publisher's "Features of the Year" for 2003. Harrop has been honored by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and has received five awards from the New England Associated Press News Executives Association. She was a finalist for the 2010 Scripps Howard Award for commentary and a Loeb Awards finalist for commentary in 2004. Before moving to Providence in 1986, Harrop covered business for Reuters in New York and was a financial editor for The New York Times News Service. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper's Bazaar, Institutional Investor and several book anthologies. Harrop has been a guest on PBS, MSNBC and Fox News, and is a frequent voice on NPR and talk-radio stations across the country. Born in New York City, Harrop was raised in the Long Island suburbs and graduated from New York University in 1972. Harrop currently divides her time between Providence and New York. |
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started working in 1991 as a stringer for various newspapers and wire services in the former Soviet Union, where he had studied in college. His first job was as the sports editor for the Moscow Times, an expatriate daily, which he joined in 1992. In the middle nineties Matt took time off from journalism to play baseball for the Red Army and pro basketball in the Mongolian Basketball Association. He also worked in a private detective agency in Boston. In 1997 he and Mark Ames co-founded an English-language satirical biweekly called the eXile that earned notoriety for both practical jokes and investigative journalism. He edited that paper for five years before returning to the U.S. in 2002, where he founded the Buffalo Beast, worked as a columnist for the New York Press, and eventually landed with Rolling Stone, where he has been a contributing editor since 2004. He won the National Magazine Award for Commentary in 2008 and has written two New York Times bestsellers, The Great Derangement and Griftopia. |
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| Aaron Kessler Sarasota Herald-Tribune |
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Paige St. John
A product of what was once the nation's smallest accredited journalism program (Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville), St. John continues the school's tradition of multi-faceted journalism. She specializes in database-driven projects, graphics and web sites, narrative writing and investigative journalism. In May 2011 she was awarded a Pulitzer prize in investigative reporting for her work on Florida's property insurance system, as well as receiving the William Brewster Styles Award for financial reporting from Scripps Howard and a National Headliner award. Past notable projects have exposed Florida's failure to protect environmentally sensitive beaches from rampant development, failure of federal regulators and medical device manufacturers to protect human lives, and institutionalized fraud within university enrollment systems. She lives with her daughter and husband on a small farm in Florida. They enjoy travel, horseback riding and kayaking. |
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Michael J. Berens
He has won dozens of regional and national awards and twice has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Recent awards include Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE); Clark Mollenhoff for Investigative Reporting; Edgar A. Poe Memorial Award, White House Correspondents Association; Society of American Business Editors and Writers Berens' investigative projects at The Times include "Culture of Resistance," an examination of the unchecked growth of the antibiotic-resistant germ MRSA; "Miracle Machines," which tracked deadly and unsafe medical devices; and "License to Harm," which exposed how state regulators ignored or excused sexual misconduct among health-care practitioners. Other works examined how young, mentally ill wards were illegally warehoused in geriatric nursing homes; unsanitary hospital conditions responsible for breeding deadly germs; and a discarded military vaccine that resulted in the death of soldiers. Berens is a former adjunct professor for Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism graduate program, where he taught analytical journalism techniques. He has been a trainer and panelist for a variety of journalism groups, including IRE and the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism. |
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Tim Logan
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David Nicklaus
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| Julia Angwin The Wall Street Journal |
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| Paul Antonson The Wall Street Journal |
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| Alexandra Berzon The Wall Street Journal |
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Douglas A. Blackmon
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Chad Bray
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Ana Campoy Ana Campoy is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal in Dallas, covering everything from politics to natural disasters to Texas quirks such as suburban feral pigs. She previously wrote about the oil refining industry for the Journal. Before that, she followed European central bankers for Dow Jones Newswires in Frankfurt, Germany, and handled corporate breaking news at MarketWatch in San Francisco. She graduated from Tecnológico de Monterrey, in Mexico, and has master's degrees in Journalism and Latin American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. |
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Ben Casselman
Since moving to Dallas in 2008, he has reported extensively on the economic, environmental and political implications of the recent U.S. drilling boom, as well as on offshore drilling, global oil exploration and energy prices. Outside the world of energy, he has written about regional economic issues, hurricanes and the 2009 shootings at Fort Hood. In 2010, Mr. Casselman was a part of the Journal team that covered the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Their work was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in national reporting and won a New York News Publishers Association award for investigative reporting, among other awards. Mr. Casselman joined the Journal in 2006 in New York, where he reported on real estate for the Weekend Journal section and was a member of the team that covered the 2008 presidential election. Before coming to the Journal, he worked for the Salem (Mass.) News. He graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in political science. He lives in Dallas with his wife. |
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Carolyn Cui
Ms. Cui joined the Journal's Money & Investing section in September 2007, writing about mutual funds and socially-responsible investing. Prior to her current position, Ms. Cui had worked as an assistant reporter at the Journal's Beijing Bureau from 2003 to 2006 and contributed to the Wall Street Journal's Pulitzer Prize-winning package of "China's Naked Capitalism" in the category of International Reporting in 2007. Ms. Cui began her journalism career as a reporter and copy editor at Shanghai Daily, an English-language newspaper, in 1999. She joined Dow Jones in 2000 as a news researcher. A native of Shanghai, China, Ms. Cui graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and received a master's degree in business and financial journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2007. She lives in Jersey City, NJ. |
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Steve Eder
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Russell Gold
Mr. Gold joined the Journal in 2000 and covered Texas politics and regional Southwest economics. In 2002, he joined the energy team and has since reported a broad variety of energy stories from five continents, including three trips above the Arctic Circle. He wrote the first front-page article in a national publication about shale gas and broke the news about a new lower tertiary oil discovery that heralded a new drilling boom in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. He has also covered Exxon Mobil, Chevron and ConocoPhillips; the Gulf of Mexico oil spill; hurricanes Ivan, Ike, Gustav, Katrina and Rita; renewable energy; Brazilian oil discoveries; liquified natural gas; and the North American natural gas renaissance. He has also been editor of the Journal's Environmental Capital blog. His articles have been honored with numerous awards. He holds a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Columbia University. He lives with his wife and two sons in Austin, Texas. |
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Yukari Iwatani Kane
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| Jovi Juan The Wall Street Journal |
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| Jill Kirschenbaum The Wall Street Journal |
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Tom Lauricella Tom Lauricella is a reporter at The Wall Street Journal and has been covering financial markets and investing since 1988. Tom joined the Journal in 2001 to write about mutual funds and switched beats in late 2008 to cover the stock market. In early 2010 he shifted his focus to global markets with a focus on foreign exchange trading. Tom also writes a monthly column on mutual funds and a Sunday Wall Street Journal column on retirement issues. Before joining the Journal, Tom was a reporter for SmartMoney magazine and has been at Dow Jones since 1992. He graduated from New York University and lives in Brooklyn. |
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| Tom McGinty The Wall Street Journal |
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| Susan McGregor The Wall Street Journal |
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Peter A. McKay
Over 11 years at the Journal, Peter wrote extensively for both the Web and print editions, including daily online coverage of the stock-market crash in late 2008. In the months following that historic event, he provided market analysis for more than 100 broadcast outlets, including CNN, the BBC, Fox News, CNBC, San Francisco's KRON and New York's WCBS on the Journal's behalf. Peter is also a former ethics fellow at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. In 2009, Florida A&M University's journalism school gave him the Thelma Thurston Gorham Distinguished Alumnus Award. Prior to coming to the Journal, he covered local business in the Virginia suburbs for the Washington Post. Peter left the Journal in July 2010 to co-found Roscoe Labs, a mobile-focused news startup. As the company's chief product officer, he has significant operational responsibility and oversees development and user experience of Roscoe's apps. |
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Vanessa O'Connell
In 2011, her story "Blood Brothers," reported and written with a colleague, won the New York Press Club award in the sports category. In 2010, she broke the story on "Jihad Jamie," the American mother from Colorado who abruptly converted to Islam and was arrested as part of a plot to murder a Swedish cartoonist who made fun of the Prophet Mohammed. She was also a contributor to "Deep Trouble," the Journal's coverage of the Gulf oil spill, which won an investigative reporting award from the New York News Publishers Association. In 2005, she received honorable mention in the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism for "Uneasy Compromise: To Keep Teens Safe, Some Parents Allow Drinking at Home," a page one feature. In 2004, Ms. O'Connell received a Front Page Award for beat reporting from the Newswomen's Club of New York, for a series of features on the tobacco industry, including "Bans on Smoking in Prison Shrink a Coveted Market"; "New Leaf: Why Philip Morris Decided to Make Friends With FDA"; "Burning Question: U.S. Suit Alleges Philip Morris Hid Cigarette Fire Risk." She lives in New York City with her husband and daughters. |
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| Scott Patterson The Wall Street Journal |
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Mary Pilon
A native of Eugene, Ore., she got her start working for her hometown paper, the Register-Guard and reading comic books about journalists. Mary covered student activism and the 2004 presidential election for New York University's student newspaper, the Washington Square News. She's interned at New York Magazine, Gakwer.com, USA Today and a joint venture between Dow Jones and IAC. Mary has also worked as a singing ice cream server, nanny and elf. She's an honors graduate of New York University's College of Arts and Science with double majors in Politics and Journalism and a minor in Spanish language. She spent over a year abroad in Spain, Russia and China. Her honors thesis on the people and politics of methamphetamine trafficking earned her the The Edwin Diamond Award given to the top undergraduate in NYU's Journalism School. Her work has garnered awards from the NY Society of Professional Journalists, the New York Press Club, the Freedom Forum and the Hearst Foundation. Her grandmother claims to be her biggest fan. |
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Susan Pulliam Susan Pulliam is an investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal, covering the financial industry. 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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Michael Rothfeld
He previously covered Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration for The Los Angeles Times, and a variety of assignments at Newsday and the Philadelphia Inquirer, including presidential campaigns and the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah. His articles have led to the reversal of a Pennsylvania veterans' hospital's policy of discharging Alzheimer's patients who couldn't walk, made changes to New York state assessment law, prompted the ouster of California officials abusing their positions, and more. Michael graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Columbia University. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. with his wife and two daughters. |
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Robin Sidel
Robin spent much of the financial crisis covering its impact on the nation's largest banks. She was the beat reporter covering J.P. Morgan Chase through its acquisitions of Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual. Robin joined the Journal in 2001. Before taking up the banking beat at the end of 2004, Robin covered corporate mergers and acquisitions for the Journal. In 2008, she received an award for best breaking news coverage among giant newspapers from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for her coverage of the departure of Chuck Prince from Citigroup Inc. Before joining the Journal, Robin was a correspondent for 11 years at Reuters in New York where she covered a wide range of topics, including corporate mergers, airlines, and energy. Robin began her journalism career in 1986 at the Courier-News in New Jersey. In addition to covering business news, she has written many general-interest articles on topics ranging from high school productions of "Cats" to ice skating to Mongolian barbecue cuisine. Robin graduated with honors from Douglass College, Rutgers University in 1986 with majors in English and journalism. |
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| Sarah Slobin The Wall Street Journal |
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| Emily Steel The Wall Street Journal |
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Jenny Strasburg Jenny Strasburg is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in the Money & Investing section and is based in New York. She covers hedge funds, other private investment funds and their clients, Wall Street and regulatory matters and investigations. Prior to joining the Journal in March 2008, Ms. Strasburg was a staff writer for Bloomberg News in New York from mid-2006 to early 2008. She previously worked as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner, and the Corpus Christi Caller-Times and the San Angelo Standard-Times, in Texas. Raised in Albuquerque, NM, and born in Kansas City, Mo., Ms. Strasburg earned a bachelor's degree with honors in Journalism from New Mexico State University. In 2006 she completed the Columbia University Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism. |
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| Scott Thurm The Wall Street Journal |
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| Christina Tsuei The Wall Street Journal |
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| Jennifer Valentino-DeVries The Wall Street Journal |
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Nick Wingfield
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Gregory Zuckerman
Greg was part of a team that won the 2007 Gerald Loeb award for breaking news coverage of the collapse of hedge fund Amaranth Advisors, and he was part of a team that won the 2003 Gerald Loeb award for breaking news coverage of the demise of telecom provider WorldCom. Greg was part of a team that won the New York Press Club Journalism award, and he was nominated for a 2008 Gerald Loeb award, for coverage of the mortgage meltdown. Greg is the author of "The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History," a Wall Street Journal and New York Times best-seller published by Broadway Business, a division of Random House. He appears regularly on CNBC, Fox Business and other television networks to discuss hedge funds, stocks and financial trades, and he makes regular appearances on National Public Radio, Bloomberg Radio and radio stations around the globe. Greg joined the Journal in 1996 after writing about media companies for the New York Post. Previously, he was the managing editor of Mergers & Acquisitions Report, a newsletter published by Investment Dealers' Digest. He graduated from Brandeis University in 1988, Magna Cum Laude. He lives with his wife and two sons in West Orange, N.J., where they enjoy the New York Yankees in the summer, and suffer with the New York Knicks in the winter. |
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Jason Zweig
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Robert O'Harrow Jr.
In recent years, O'Harrow has focused his reporting on federal contracting, fraud, waste and abuse. In 2008, he was a finalist for a Gerald R. Loeb Award for a series of exclusive stories about failing procurement practices, cost overruns and the chronic abuse of congressional earmarks. In 2006, O'Harrow and Post reporter Scott Higham won the top award from Investigative Reporters and Editors for their examination of spending by the Department of Homeland Security. O'Harrow, 52, had previously carved out an investigative beat about the data revolution. His reporting about the use of personal information spurred changes in state and federal law. In 2000, he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for a series about evolving tension between privacy and technology concerns. That work grew into a book, "No Place to Hide," about data profiling, surveillance and national security in the post-9/11 world. He was co-producer of a public radio documentary of the same name. O'Harrow studied economics and history at Virginia Tech. He lives in Virginia. |
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Asa Eslocker has been an investigative producer in the ABC News Brian Ross Investigative Unit since 2006 and produces stories for 20/20, Nightline, World News with Diane Sawyer, Good Morning America, as well as ABCNews.com's The Blotter. Eslocker has won two News Emmy awards for his work on the political "Money Trail " series and for a Nightline report exposing influence peddling by the CEO of Massey Energy on the West Virginia Supreme Court.
Matthew Mosk joined ABC News in 2009 after more than 15 years in newspapers, including ten years writing about politics and government for The Washington Post. He serves as the Washington reporter for the ABC News investigative unit.
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 is one of the most honored and respected journalists in the country. As ABC News' Chief Investigative Correspondent, he reports extensively for "World News with Diane Sawyer," "Nightline," "Good Morning America," and "20/20," as well as for ABC News Radio and "The Blotter" on ABCNEWS.com. Brian Ross launched a weekly investigative news magazine, "Brian Ross Investigates" on ABCNews.com and Hulu in April 2010. Ross joined ABC News in July 1994.
Rhonda Schwartz, a 40-year network news veteran, is the Senior Producer of the Brian Ross Investigative Unit at ABC News. Since joining ABC News in 1994, Schwartz, Ross and their team have received more than two dozen national reporting awards including multiple DuPont, Peabody, Polk, Murrow, and Emmy awards for reporting on the CIA's Secret Prisons, the Mark Foley congressional page scandal, nuclear smuggling , the corrupting influence of big money on politics, retail pharmacy errors, as well as international investigations into black market sales of the kidneys of executed Chinese political prisoners.
Vic Walter has been an investigative producer for ABC News since 1994.
Kara Swisher currently co-produces and co-hosts The Wall Street Journal's "D: All Things Digital," with Walt Mossberg. It is a major high-tech conference with interviewees such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and many other leading players in the tech and media industries. The gathering (http://www.allthingsd.com/d) is considered one of the leading conferences focused on the convergence of tech and media industries.
Frederick Balfour is a reporter-at-large for Bloomberg News, based in Hong Kong. Previously, he was an Asia correspondent for Bloomberg Businessweek.
Tim Culpan is Bloomberg's Taiwan technology and business correspondent. He's broken stories on the technology supply chain, industry development and insider trading. He joined Bloomberg in 2006 after working as a Taipei-based freelance correspondent for the Washington Post, Time and Billboard. 
Charles R. Babcock is an editor on the projects & investigations team at Bloomberg News. He came to Bloomberg in 2006, after 30 years at The Washington Post, where he worked as an investigative reporter and editor. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1990 for stories about ethics abuses in Congress, and a longtime board member of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. The native of Louisville, Ky. has a B.A. degree from Ohio Wesleyan University and a master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He served as an Army lieutenant in Vietnam in 1969-70. Babcock and his wife Carolyn Bowers live in Washington, D.C. They have three daughters.
Amanda Bennett is Executive Editor/Projects and Investigations for Bloomberg News. She was editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer from June, 2003, to November, 2006, and prior to that was editor of the Herald-Leader in Lexington, Kentucky. She also served for three years as managing editor/projects for The Oregonian in Portland. Bennett served as a Wall Street Journal reporter for more than 20 years. A graduate of Harvard College, she held numerous posts at the paper, including auto industry reporter in Detroit in the late 70s and early 80s, Pentagon and State Department reporter, Beijing correspondent, management editor/reporter, national economics correspondent and, finally, chief of the Atlanta bureau until 1998, when she moved to The Oregonian. She was elected co-Chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2010, and was a member of the board since 2002. In 1997 Bennett shared the Prize for national reporting with her Journal colleagues, and in 2001 during her tenure at The Oregonian, that paper won a Pulitzer for public service. Projects by the Bloomberg P&I team won a 2008 Loeb Award and a 2009 Overseas Press Club Award; several awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers; a 2010 George Polk Award and a 2010 National Headliner Award. 
David Evans is a 2011 Pulitzer Prize finalist and IRE Magazine Award winner. He exposed how more than 130 life insurance companies concocted a scheme to keep $28 billion of benefits owed to the families of fallen soldiers, government workers and millions of other Americans. David, a senior writer for Bloomberg Markets magazine, is based in Los Angeles.
Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author Daniel Golden joined Bloomberg News as an editor at large in July 2009 from Condé Nast Portfolio, where he was senior editor for investigations. His Portfolio articles included the August 2008 cover story, "Some 'Friend,'" which revealed exclusively that Senators Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad, several former Cabinet members, and many other notables enjoyed favorable mortgages under Countrywide chief executive Angelo Mozilo's "Friends of Angelo" program. Golden's findings prompted a Senate Ethics Committee investigation and contributed to Dodd's January decision not to seek re-election.
John Hechinger is an education reporter in the Bloomberg News Boston bureau, where he writes enterprise and investigative features for the terminal and Bloomberg Businessweek magazine. Before joining Bloomberg in 2010, he was a senior special writer for The Wall Street Journal, where he had worked since 1997. In various roles at the Journal, he wrote extensively about inequities in education, high-interest mortgage lending to the poor and questionable mutual-fund sales practices. Before joining the Journal, he worked as a projects reporter at The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer. John has won numerous journalism awards, most recently sharing in the 2010 George Polk Award for Education Reporting, the Education Writers Association grand prize and the National Headliner Award for education writing-all for Bloomberg's coverage last year of for-profit colleges. Also for that coverage, he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in public service. Born in New York, John received a bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, from Yale University. He lives near Boston with his wife, Ricki Morell, and their daughter, Rachel.
John Lauerman joined Bloomberg News in 2002 and covers higher education. Lauerman and his colleagues won a George Polk Award and were Pulitzer finalists in 2011 for a series of stories on for-profit colleges that recruit low-income students, often to leave them with debt and no degree. The series also won a National Headliner Award and the Education Writers Association Grand Prize. In 2010, he won a New York Press Club award for his team's coverage of Harvard University's $1 billion loss on risky investments. As a health reporter for Bloomberg, he won a 2009 award from the Society of the Silurians for his stories on the failed search for a vaccine against HIV. His team won a 2005 award from the Society of American Business Writers and Editors for coverage of Merck & Co.'s withdrawal of the painkiller Vioxx after it was linked to heart disease. He has been a fellow of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Health Coverage program and the Kaiser Family Foundation's program for science journalists. Before coming to Bloomberg, Lauerman was a science writer at Harvard Medical School, a freelance journalist for 12 years, wrote a health column for Harvard Magazine, and edited the public health journal "Health and Human Rights." He lives with his wife and two children in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Bryan Bender is the national security correspondent for the Boston Globe, where he covers the military, weapons manufacturers, homeland security, and government secrecy. In more than15 years on the beat, he has reported on US military operations in Asia, the Middle East, the Balkans, and Latin America. Before joining the Globe's Washington Bureau in 2001, he specialized in international defense policy and the weapons trade at Jane's Defence Weekly, Defense Daily, and Inside the Army. His work has also appeared in The New Republic, The Los Angeles Times, and National Journal, and he is a frequent television and radio commentator. A native of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Mr. Bender is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh. He lives with his wife and two daughters in northern Virginia.
Gardner has covered the auto industry for more than 10 years for the Detroit Free Press and Bloomberg News. Before that he was a reporter and editor at the Akron Beacon Journal. He was part of a Beacon Journal team that won a 1987 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of Sir James Goldsmith's attempted takeover of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. He also has worked in corporate communications and business strategy at Visteon Corp. and as an editor and director of marketing for Harbour Consulting.
Hyde was the Washington bureau reporter for the Detroit Free Press from 2005-2010, covering, among many other issues, the $86 billion bailout of Detroit's automakers, battles over fuel economy regulations and auto safety recalls including the Toyota debacle. Hyde was part of the team recognized for its industry coverage with several Society of American Business Editors and Writers' awards. Before coming to the Free Press, Hyde covered the auto
Elizabeth Conley has been a professional photographer since graduating from Michigan State University in 1998. She has received many accolades for her work including 2010 Michigan Press Photographer of the Year, First Place 2009 Editor & Publisher Photos of the Year in Video and Multimedia, and a 2008 Kiplinger Fellowship in Public Policy at Ohio State University. Conley joined The Detroit News in 2003.
Jim Lynch has worked as a newspaper reporter for 17 years covering everything from local government to national environmental issues. His current assignment is as environmental reporter for the Detroit News.
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 (
John Fauber has been a medical reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel since 1996.
Blogosphere pioneer Kevin Drum, long considered one of the nation's most influential political bloggers, probes the intersection of policy and politics. He went online as Calpundit in 2003 and joined Mother Jones in 2008. Prior to Mother Jones, he blogged at the Washington Monthly's Political Animal. He is the inventor of Friday catblogging and lives with his wife and two cats in Irvine.
Graham Bowley is a reporter for the New York Times. He grew up in England, worked at the Financial Times and the International Herald Tribune, and now lives in New York. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling book No Way Down, about the 2008 climbing tragedy on K2, the second tallest mountain in the world
Keith Bradsher has been a reporter for The New York Times since 1989. He has covered airlines and telecommunications in New York, international economics and domestic economics as a Washington correspondent, the auto industry as Detroit bureau chief and now Asian economics and business as Hong Kong bureau chief. His work on the dangers of SUV collisions with cars led to the front ends of SUVs being redesigned with what the Ford Motor Company nicknamed as "Bradsher bars".
Miguel Helft has covered the technology industry for The New York Times for the last five years, focusing on major companies like Apple, Facebook, Google and Yahoo. He joined the Times after a 10-year career in journalism. He worked for five years as an editorial writer at the San Jose Mercury News, where he focused on technology policy, environmental issues and foreign affairs. Before that, he was a technology writer the Industry Standard, the San Jose Mercury News and the Los Angeles Times. He has written for Fortune, Wired, Business 2.0 and other magazines. Before becoming a journalist, he worked for four years as a guide on high-altitude mountaineering expeditions around the world. He also spent three years as a software engineer at Sun Microsystems. Miguel was born in Argentina and raised between in Argentina and France. He came to the United States to attend Stanford University, where he earned a BA in Philosophy and Masters in Computer Science.
Andrew Jacobs, a Beijing-based correspondent with the New York Times, has been covering China since 2008. Since joining the Times staff in 1998, he has covered a wide range of beats, from the New York City Police Department and Manhattan Criminal Court to the American South, New Jersey and Styles.
Ron Lieber writes the "Your Money" column for The Times and oversees the content at 
Joe Nocera is an Op-Ed columnist. Before joining The Opinion Pages in April 2011, he wrote the Talking Business column for The New York Times each Saturday and was a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. In addition to his work at The Times, he serves as a regular business commentator for NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon.
Catherine Rampell writes about economics for The New York Times, where she helped launch and edit the Economix blog. Under her stewardship the blog was honored with an award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Before joining The Times, she wrote for the Washington Post editorial board and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Catherine graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton.
David E. Sanger is Chief Washington Correspondent for The New York Times and is one of the newspaper's senior writers. In a 28-year career at the paper, he has reported from New York, Tokyo and Washington, specializing in foreign policy, national security and the politics of globalization. He is also the author of the New York Times best-seller "The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power,'' (2009) based on his seven years as the Times' White House correspondent, covering two wars, the confrontations with Iran, North Korea and other rogue states, and America's efforts to deal with the rise of China. Twice he has been a member of Times reporting teams that won the Pulitzer Prize.
Louise Story writes about Wall Street and finance for The New York Times and was one of the lead reporters in chronicling the financial crisis, the federal bailout of the banks and the public backlash that followed.
Darren Gersh is the Nightly Business Report's (NBR) Washington, D.C., Bureau Chief. He specializes in translating complex economic and business stories into clear and compelling pieces for diverse audiences. He has more than two decades of reporting experience covering the global economy and has earned a reputation for insightful interviews with Members of Congress and the Administration. Among his honors, Darren's reporting from India received a 2008 Gerald Loeb Award and his 2005 coverage from China on the forces shaping their rising economic power.earned an Emmy for extended coverage of China's emergence as an economic power.
Michael LaBella has been shooting and editing news in Washington for five years. His award winning work includes the satirical series 'Funny Money' which injected humor into the widely negative coverage of the financial crisis. During his time with the PBS Nightly Business Report, he covered the height of the global financial meltdown as well as hitting the road to cover the 2008 race for the Whitehouse. Michael has shot and edited multiple presidential interviews during the Bush and Obama administrations. In 2010 he traveled to Haiti with the U.S. Department of State to cover the cholera outbreak and the progress of rebuilding a nation one year after the earthquake.
Sebastian Mallaby is director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies (CGS) and Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). An experienced journalist and public speaker, Mr. Mallaby is also a contributing editor for the Financial Times and served previously as a columnist and editorial board member at the Washington Post. His interests cover a wide variety of domestic and international issues, including financial markets, the implications of the rise of newly emerging powers, and the intersection of economics and international relations. In addition to his monthly column for the Financial Times, his recent writing has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic Monthly.
Ralph Cipriano is a former newspaper reporter for the Albany Times Union, Los Angeles Times and Philadelphia Inquirer. He now works as a freelance journalist and author in Philadelphia, where he is a regular contributor to the Inquirer commentary page, and Fox 29 News. He has written extensively on corruption in local governments, police departments, Ivy League football and the Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia. He and his wife, Rosemarie, have two sons, Anthony and Gabriel.
Jeff Larson is a Web Developer at ProPublica and was the Online Director at The Nation where he coordinated the magazine's editorial and business activities on the web during the 2009 political season. Previously, he worked at W.W. Norton and as a film and video editor at an Emmy award winning production company.
Joaquin Sapien has focused on environmental issues since he joined ProPublica in May 2008. In 2009 he was part of a team whose work on natural gas drilling won the Society of Professional Journalists award for online non-deadline investigative reporting. From 2005 until 2008 he was a reporter for the Center for Public Integrity, where he led a year-long investigative project, "Superfund's Toxic Legacy," which received the 2007 Society of Professional Journalists award for non-deadline online reporting. Sapien received the 2008 Investigative Reporters and Editors Award in the local-circulation weeklies category for a story he worked on about coal-fired power plants in Texas. He is a three-time finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. Before joining CPI, Sapien wrote for Environmental Media Services.
Froma Harrop is a nationally syndicated columnist, based at the Providence Journal in Rhode Island. Her subscribers include The Dallas Morning News, Denver Post, Detroit News, Houston Chronicle, Newsday, Seattle Times and RealClearPolitics.com.
Matt Taibbi has been a journalist for almost twenty years. He
Paige St. John joined the Sarasota-Herald Tribune in 2008 as an investigative reporter. She has been a working journalist for more than three decades, covering Florida politics, the environment and natural disasters. Her prior posts include statehouse bureau chief for Gannett News Service, environment reporter for The Detroit News, and Traverse City, Mich., correspondent for the Associated Press.
Michael J. Berens, 51, is an investigative reporter for The Seattle Times, where he has worked since 2004. He previously worked for seven years on the investigative team at the Chicago Tribune and for 13 years at The Columbus Dispatch. He began his newspaper career as a copy boy in 1981 - at age 22 - while attending Ohio State University.
Tim Logan covers development, housing and the economy for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he's been a business writer since 2007. He has also worked for the Times Herald-Record, in New York's Hudson Valley, and the South Bend Tribune, and earned a master's degree in urban affairs from St. Louis University. Tim grew up in Boston, went to college at the University of Notre Dame and now lives in St. Louis with his wife and young son.
David Nicklaus has been a business reporter, editor, and columnist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch since 1981. A native Iowan, Nicklaus received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Drake University and a master's in economics from the London School of Economics.
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.
Bethany McLean is a writer for Vanity Fair and the coauthor of The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron. Before joining Vanity Fair, she wrote for Fortune for thirteen years (most recently as an editor at large) and spent three years working in the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs. She lives in Chicago.
Douglas A. Blackmon is The Wall Street Journal's Senior National Correspondent and the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II.
Chad has worked as a reporter with Dow Jones & Co. since 2000, first with Dow Jones Newswires and the past year with The Wall Street Journal. He has spent the past eight years covering in the federal and state courts in New York City. His coverage included the corporate-looting trial of former Tyco International Chief Executive Dennis Kozlowski, the obstruction-of-justice case against Martha Stewart, the massive fraud of Ponzi scheme operator Bernard Madoff, the guilty plea of Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad and the unmasking last summer of ten Russian spies secretly living the U.S. Prior to that, he worked as a reporter with The Augusta Chronicle in Augusta, Ga., and The Greenville News in Greenville, S.C.
Ben Casselman covers the oil and gas industry for The Wall Street Journal from the paper's Dallas bureau.
Carolyn Cui is a New York-based reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where she covers the commodities markets.
Steve Eder is a reporter at The Wall Street Journal's Money & Investing bureau where he covers hedge funds in New York. He came to The Journal in 2010 from Reuters, where he wrote about Wall Street banks in the aftermath of the financial crisis.
Russell Gold is the senior member of the Wall Street Journal's prize-winning global energy team. The team reports on the vital energy stories of the day, from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to hedge fund commodity-trading desks.
Yukari Iwatani Kane is a staff reporter with the Wall Street Journal in San Francisco. She has been writing about technology for nearly 15 years and has covered telecoms, consumers electronics and video games in Chicago, San Francisco and Tokyo. She currently writes primarily about Apple. Prior to the Wall Street Journal, she worked for Reuters and U.S. News and World Report.
Peter is a former Wall Street Journal markets reporter who participated in the paper's Loeb-nominated team coverage of last year's "flash crash." This is his second time as a Loeb finalist, following a 2007 nomination for coverage of the merger of Chicago's financial exchanges. 
Vanessa O'Connell has worked in the New York bureau of The Wall Street Journal since 1995. She writes for all sections of the paper, often focusing her coverage on legal issues. Her past coverage includes a two-year project writing about guns and the gun industry, and a six-month project on doping in professional cycling.
Mary Pilon is a New York-based staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal, reporting to the Money & Investing section. She started at the Journal in June 2008 and has written numerous page one features, covered various aspects of personal finance and the financial crisis for print and online editions and regularly appears on national TV and radio. Recently, she took on the asset management beat, covering firms that handle over $20 trillion in assets.
Michael Rothfeld has been a newspaper reporter for 16 years. His coverage of courts and law enforcement in New York for The Wall Street Journal has focused on insider-trading investigations, litigation surrounding Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme and other issues.
Robin Sidel is a senior special writer at the Wall Street Journal where she covers the banking industry with a particular focus on regional and community institutions - from retail banking to commercial lending. She also covers the payments industry and regularly covers Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.
Nick Wingfield has reported on technology for the Wall Street Journal since 1997. He is currently based in Seattle, where he follows Microsoft, games and the Pacific Northwest.
Gregory Zuckerman is a Special Writer at The Wall Street Journal. He writes about private-equity firms, hedge funds, big financial trades, financial markets and other investing topics. In the past, he wrote the widely read "Heard on the Street" column and covered the credit markets.
Jason Zweig is the investing and personal finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of Your Money and Your Brain, on the neuroscience of investing (Simon & Schuster, 2007). Zweig is also the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor (HarperCollins, 2003), the classic text that Warren Buffett has described as "by far the best book about investing ever written." From 1995 through 2008 he was a senior writer for Money magazine; before joining Money, he was the mutual funds editor at Forbes. Zweig has also been a guest columnist for Time magazine and cnn.com. He has served as a trustee of the Museum of American Finance, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, and sits on the editorial boards of Financial History magazine and The Journal of Behavioral Finance. A graduate of Columbia University, Zweig lives in New York City.
Robert O'Harrow Jr. is an investigative reporter at The Washington Post.
Alan Prendergast has been a staff writer at Westword since 1995. His work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Outside, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Men's Journal, Best American Sports Writing 2009, Best American Crime Writing 2008, and numerous other anthologies and national publications.He is the author of a book about child abuse and parricide, The Poison Tree, and served as consultant and principal reporter for a CBS News one-hour documentary about the Columbine shootings, hosted by Ed Bradley, that aired on Sixty Minutes. Prendergast graduated summa cum laude from Colorado College in 1978 and has a master's degree in journalism from Ohio State University, where he studied as a Kiplinger Fellow in 1994-5. He teaches journalism at Colorado College and lives in Denver, Colorado.
William "Billy" Bryant joined WFAA in 2000 after working as sports photographer covering the Houston Oilers, Astros, and two-time NBA champ Rockets. In 2008, Billy joined the WFAA I-Team as photographer/editor. The award-winning I-Team stories he has video-taped and edited have ranged from home explosions and foreign, untrained airplane mechanics, to athletic eligibility fraud and Medicaid dental fraud. A native Texan, Billy enjoys playing good ole rock 'n' roll music with fellow WFAA employees in a band called Film at 11. Billy has been married to wife Margaret for 13 years and blessed with William, their two-year old son.
WFAA-TV investigative reporter Byron Harris has worked for more than 36 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. He has spent more than three decades as a reporter, covering Texans in events as diverse as the first landing of the space shuttle, wars in Somalia (1992) and Iraq (2003 and 2005), and perestroika in Eastern and Western Siberia. Harris has been noted for his investigative work with three Peabody awards as well as four du-Pont-Columbia University batons, including a gold baton - the first ever awarded to a local television station. For other reporting, he has received 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 been a contributor to Nightline and the Nightly Business Report. In addition to broadcast journalism, he has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Texas Monthly, and Air & Space magazine. Harris received his bachelor's degree in English and Sociology from the University of Michigan and a Master's in Journalism from Northwestern University.
Mark Smith became an investigative producer at WFAA- TV in Dallas, after 15 years as a newspaper reporter. He enjoys producing news stories that impact lives and bring change. One police corruption series led to the dismissal of drug charges against 70 defendants, and convictions of four police officers and three drug informants. Another series led to the removal of hundreds of thousands of gas couplings and steel lines that had been overlooked despite two decades of deadly home explosions. The WFAA-TV investigative stories have led to revamped policies and programs, and even the closure of a state agency. He joined WFAA in 2000. He has produced stories that have won a Gerald Loeb Award, two Scripps Howard National Journalism Awards, four Peabody awards and four du-Pont-Columbia University batons, including a gold baton. Mark has bachelor's degrees in Biology and Political Science from the University of Washington. He has a Master's from Columbia University in International & Public Affairs, with a specialty in International Journalism.