with more than a decade of experience covering a rich variety of subjects,
including Corporate America, the economy,
Wall Street, politics, crime and culture.
Job History
March 2000 to present............Freelance investigative journalist – I have been a self-supporting
freelance journalist and researcher since Spring 2000. I spent time as a contributing editor for IDD magazine, a Wall Street
trade magazine (see below). I have also done research work for Corporate Campaigns Inc., a consulting firm that works with
labor unions. My written work has been published in the Village Voice, Salon.com, Dollars & Sense,
Business Week, the New York Post and several daily newspapers.
January 1998 to March
2000............Reporter for the TheStreet.com – I covered Wall Street for TheStreet.com, an Internet financial news magazine. My duties included
financial analysis of corporations and investment firms, understanding of capital markets and the general economy, and an
ability to research subjects and conduct interviews.
August 1997 to December 1998............Writer for Investment Dealers’ Digest
– I covered the stock market for IDD, a Wall Street trade magazine. My duties included understanding of markets, tax
laws and antitrust regulations, analysis of complex securities offerings, and an ability to research subjects and conductinterviews.
May 1994 to August 1997............Editor for Securities Data Co. – I was editor of SDC’s “Mergers & Restructuring” weekly newsletter. My duties included
overseeing a staff of three reporters, working with them on story development and source interviewing, and editing and laying
out their copy.
January 1991 to April 1992............Investigative Reporter for The Daily Herald – I was an investigative reporter for The Daily Herald, a 15,000-circulation daily newspaper
in Columbia, Tenn. My duties include story development and research in the field of local politics, local business and labor,
and crime.
Education
Masters
degree..........I received a Masters
degree in Journalism from Columbia University in 2000. I completed the Mid-Careers Masters program that allows
qualified participants to create their own discipline outside the School of Journalism. I formed and completed a program of
Labor Studies, taking classes in political science, economics, history and sociology that pertained to labor and organizing.
Bachelor
degrees..........I earned two bachelor
degrees, in English and Mass Communications, from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1990.
Awards
In 1991, I was awarded the
Malcolm Law Award for Investigative Reporting from the Associated Press while at The Daily Herald
for a series of articles I wrote on an illegal toxic waste dump located in a poor neighborhood.
