Jesse Eisinger is an American journalist and author. Winner of the

Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting This Pulitzer Prize has been awarded since 1942 for a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs in the United States. In its first six years (1942–1947), it was called the Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting – National. Li ...

in 2011, he currently works as a senior reporter for

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. His first book, ''The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives'', was published by

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in 2017. Eisinger's work has appeared in ProPublica, ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' website, and many other publications.

Education

Eisinger is a graduate of Columbia College, where he majored in

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Early career

Eisinger began his career with The South Pacific Mail in Santiago, Chile. He moved to

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and then TheStreet.com, where he covered

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and pharmaceuticals. In 2000, Eisinger was hired by

The Wall Street Journal Europe ''The Wall Street Journal Europe'' was a daily English-language newspaper that covered global and regional business news for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Published by Dow Jones & Company (a News Corp company), it formed part of th ...

, where he wrote the thrice-weekly column "Heard in Europe" for two years. While working in Europe, Eisinger helped expose frauds at

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, a Belgian company specializing in voice recognition software, and

Élan Elan Corporation plc was a major drugs firm based in Dublin, Ireland, which had major interests in the United States. It was listed on the New York Stock Exchange as ELN, the Irish Stock Exchange as ELN.I, and the London Stock Exchange as ELN. ...

, an Irish pharmaceutical company.

Financial and investigative reporting

Eisinger moved to New York in 2002 to write for ''The Wall Street Journal''. His first column was called "Ahead of the Tape". After two years, he started writing a new financial column called “Long and Short”. Several years later, Eisinger joined the

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as the magazine's Wall Street editor. His cover story in November 2007, titled “Wall Street Requiem,” predicted the collapse of

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and

Lehman Brothers Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. ( ) was an American global financial services firm founded in 1847. Before filing for bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth-largest investment bank in the United States (behind Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, a ...

. Eisinger was hired as a senior reporter by the nonprofit investigative newsroom ProPublica in 2009.

Pulitzer Prize

In 2009, Eisinger began work on a series of stories, “The Wall Street Money Machine,” that revealed how Wall Street's morally questionable practices had led to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Co-authored with Jake Bernstein, the series was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2011. It was the first Pulitzer Prize awarded to a group of stories published in a digital-only format.

Other awards

Eisinger was a New America Fellow in 2016 and 2017. Eisinger's Wall Street series was also nominated for the 2011

Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting is an award for journalists administered by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. The program was launched in 1991, with the goal of exposing examples of ...

. He would be nominated again for the Goldsmith in 2015 for a series of stories about the

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, written with Justin Elliott of ProPublica and

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’s

Laura Sullivan Laura Sullivan (born about 1974) is a correspondent and investigative reporter for National Public Radio (NPR). Her investigations air regularly on '' Morning Edition'', '' All Things Considered'', and other NPR programs. She is also an on-air ...

. In 2015, Eisinger was honored with the Gerald Loeb Award for his Wall Street commentary.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Eisinger, Jesse Living people American male journalists American financial writers Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting winners The Wall Street Journal people Columbia College (New York) alumni Pulitzer Prize winners Gerald Loeb Award winners for Columns, Commentary, and Editorials Year of birth missing (living people)