Kirsten Grind (née Kirsten Orsini-Meinhard) is an American journalist and author. She is an investigative reporter for

The Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...

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, the co-author of the upcoming book, Happy At Any Cost, The Revolutionary Vision and Fatal Quest of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh (Simon & Schuster, March 2022), and The Lost Bank: The Story of

Washington Mutual Washington Mutual (often abbreviated to WaMu) was the United States' largest savings and loan association until its collapse in 2008. A savings bank holding company is defined in United States Code: Title 12: Banks and Banking; Section 1842: Def ...

—The Biggest Bank Failure in American History (Simon & Schuster, June 2012).

Career

Kirsten Grind is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where she has worked for ten years. At the WSJ, she primarily covers the tech industry and has won a series of awards for her work, including exposing screening gaps at the childcare website Care.com, showing how Google's secretive algorithm works, and others. She has written an in-depth profile of Twitter's former CEO Jack Dorsey, detailed a stalking scandal at eBay, and most recently has chronicled the mishandling of sexual harassment allegations at the video game giant Activision Blizzard. Earlier in her career at the WSJ, she was an enterprise finance reporter based in New York, where she exposed the flawed rating system of popular mutual funds, chronicled the downfall of the bond king, Bill Gross, uncovered a sexual harassment scandal at the mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments and exposed a fast-growing, predatory green-energy loan program that took advantage of the elderly. Previously she was the banking reporter at the

Puget Sound Business Journal The ''Puget Sound Business Journal'' (PSBJ) is a weekly American City Business Journals publication containing articles about business people, issues, and events in the greater Seattle, Washington area. The publication also publishes a technology ...

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, where she wrote a series of investigative stories about the collapse of Washington Mutual, the largest bank failure in U.S. history. Those stories, along with an in-depth series on the foreclosure crisis, garnered a Pulitzer Finalist citation in 2010, along with numerous other national awards. Grind lives in the Bay Area with her husband and two small sons.

Happy at Any Cost

Grind's second book, Happy at Any Cost, The Revolutionary Vision and Fatal Quest of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, co-written with Katherine Sayre, comes out March 15, 2022 from Simon and Schuster.

The Lost Bank

Grind's book, The Lost Bank, was released on June 12, 2012. It is published by Simon & Schuster. The book was named the best investigative book of 2012 by Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE).

Awards

Grind and her colleague Gregory Zuckerman won the

Gerald Loeb Award The Gerald Loeb Award, also referred to as the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, is a recognition of excellence in journalism, especially in the fields of business, finance and the economy. The award was estab ...

in 2015 in the category of Breaking News for their series on PIMCO and the downfall of the "bond king" Bill Gross. Grind was cited as a finalist for the

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had ma ...

in Explanatory Reporting in 2010. She was also a finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award in 2010 for her coverage of the collapse of Washington Mutual, and earned the 2015 Gerald Loeb Award for Breaking News for "Abdication of the 'Bond King'." She has won numerous other national awards including from the Society of Professional Journalists and from SABEW (

Society of American Business Editors and Writers The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing is an association of business journalists. Originally founded as the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, in 2018, it changed its name "as part of a broader effort to embrace a ...

References

External links

www.wsj.com

Simon & Schuster author's page

Amazon author's page
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