I am an award-winning investigative journalist and researcher with decades of experience covering a rich variety of subjects, including Corporate America, labor, the economy, Wall Street, politics, crime and culture.

     I was awarded a fellowship in June 2010 by Investigative Reporters & Editors to examine how well companies have complied with corporate whistleblower laws requiring companies to establish and maintain internal whistleblower protections for employees.

     In October 2009, I was granted a fellowship by the Carnegie Legal Reporting Program at Syracuse University's Newhouse School. My investigative project involves looking at how recent Supreme Court decisions have heightened pleading standards in shareholder lawsuits that claim fraud against company management.

     Since March 2000, I have been a full-time independent investigative journalist, editor and researcher. During this time I've also worked as a freelance managing or contributing editor for several Thomson Reuters publications that focus on Wall Street. Prior to going freelance, I wrote for TheStreet.com, an Internet-based financial news magazine, and several Wall Street trade publications. My work also has been published in the Village Voice, Salon.com, Dollars & Sense, TomPaine.com, The Nation, Business Week, the New York Post, the New York Observer, and foreign editions of Newsweek. I was awarded the Malcolm Law Award for Investigative Reporting from the Associated Press for my work at The Daily Herald (Columbia, Tenn.)

     I have done extensive research for Corporate Campaign, Inc., a labor union consulting firm, and completed fact-checking a book, Bull: A History of the Boom, 1982-1999 by Maggie Mahar (Harper Business, 2003.)

     In 2000, I received a Master's degree in Journalism from Columbia University. I earned two bachelor degrees, in English and Mass Communications, from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1990.