Gretchen Morgenson Biography

Since May 1998, Gretchen Morgenson, an assistant business and finance editor at The New York Times and a writer, has covered the international financial markets for The Times. In 2002, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of Wall Street, which she described as "trenchant and sharp." Ms. Morgenson is a Wall Street veteran financial journalist. Her experience as a stockbroker at Dean Witter Reynolds in New York in the early 1980s lends her stories a depth of knowledge and skepticism that is unusual in financial reporting. Ms. Morgenson began her work as an editorial assistant at Vogue magazine after graduating from Saint Olaf College in Northfield, Minn., in 1976. She covered the financial sector during spells at Money magazine, Worth magazine, and Forbes magazine after spending two and a half years on Wall Street. Ms. Morgenson co-authored “Reckless Endangerment,” a New York Times bestseller on the beginnings of the 2008 financial crisis, with Joshua Rosner, which was released in May 2011 by Times Books. She's also the author of "Forbes Great Minds of Business," a 1997 book by John Wiley & Sons that have five interviews with business executives. She co-authored “The New York Times Dictionary of Money and Investing” with Campbell R. Harvey (2002). Ms. Morgenson's coverage on Wall Street earned her a Gerald Loeb Award in the "Beat Writing" category in 2009. In 2002, she received the Gerald Loeb Award for achievement in financial commentary, and in 2000, she received the Annual Journalism Award for best in personal finance reporting from the American University School of Communication. In 2009 and 2010, Ms. Morgenson participated in two Pulitzer Prize juries, judging investigative reporting entries.

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