Jonathan Weil is an American journalist, analyst and attorney. Born July 20, 1970, he grew up in Hollywood, Florida, and attended
Pine Crest School
Pine Crest School is a private preparatory school with campuses in Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton, Florida, United States. It was founded in Fort Lauderdale in 1934 by Mae McMillan, who also served as the school's first president.
The School has ...
in Fort Lauderdale. He earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the
University of Colorado at Boulder
The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a state, it is the flagship university of the University of Colorado sy ...
in 1991 and a juris doctor degree from
Southern Methodist University
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in 1995.
Biography
Wei
was a columnistfor
Bloomberg News
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and
Bloomberg View
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from 2007 to 2014. He was managing director and editor of financial research at Glass Lewis & Co. (2006–2007), an investment-research and proxy-advisory firm in Broomfield, Colorado. Before that, he was a reporter for
The Wall Street Journal
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(1997–2005), where he wrote about accounting and finance. He began his career as a reporter at the
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette'' is the newspaper of record in the U.S. state of Arkansas, printed in Little Rock with a northwest edition published in Lowell. It is distributed for sale in all 75 of Arkansas' counties.
By virtue of one of ...
(1995–1997).
Weil was a
Gerald Loeb Award finalist in 2002 and won the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants Excellence in Financial Journalism Award in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. He won Society of American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business Journalism Awards in 2009, and 2010. He also won the Society of the Silurians Award for Editorial Writing/Commentary in 2011.
Weil has been credited by Columbia Journalism Review, Barron's and The New Yorker magazine, among others, as the first reporter to challenge
Enron
Enron Corporation was an American energy, commodities, and services company based in Houston, Texas. It was founded by Kenneth Lay in 1985 as a merger between Lay's Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth, both relatively small regional compani ...
's accounting practices during the Internet bubble, for his Sept. 20, 2000, WSJ article, "Energy Traders Cite Gains, But Some Math Is Missing"
. His columns for Bloomberg in 2007 and 2008 focused on questionable accounting practices at
Fannie Mae
The Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA), commonly known as Fannie Mae, is a United States government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) and, since 1968, a publicly traded company. Founded in 1938 during the Great Depression as part of the N ...
, Freddie Mac, Wachovia, Washington Mutual, Lehman Brothers, AIG, Citigroup, and IndyMac.
Awards and honors
*2010 American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business Journalism Awards
*2009 American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business Journalism Awards
*2011 Society of the Silurians Award for Editorial Writing/Commentary
Sources
* Audit Interview: Jonathan Weil
* Jonathan Weil On GoldmanGate
* Prepared Witness Testimony Full Committee on Energy and Commerce
* "Try to Go Beyond Accuracy"
* "Open Secrets"
* "Open Secrets"
* "Author Malcolm Gladwell"
* "Inside The Fall Of Enron"
* "The Claim Game"
* "CSI: Denver"
* "Energy Traders Cite Gains
* "Paper Tiger"
* "A Pox on Both Your Houses..."
* "The Role of Financial Journalists..."
See also
*
Tax haven
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*
Ireland as a tax haven
Ireland has been labelled as a tax haven or corporate tax haven in multiple financial reports, an allegation which the state has rejected in response. Ireland is on all academic " tax haven lists", including the , and tax NGOs. Ireland does no ...
References
External links
* Related Articles https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/weil/
* American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business Journalism Awards http://sabew.org/2010/03/sabew-announces-winners-in-15th-annual-competition/
1970 births
Living people
Online journalists
American newspaper journalists
University of Colorado Boulder alumni
Writers from Florida
People from Hollywood, Florida
Pine Crest School alumni
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