Gretchen Morgenson

Gretchen Morgenson, an assistant business and financial editor and a columnist at The New York Times, has covered the world financial markets for The Times since May 1998. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her “trenchant and incisive” coverage of Wall Street.

Ms. Morgenson is a financial journalist with Wall Street experience. Her stint as a stockbroker at Dean Witter Reynolds in New York in the early 1980s gives her stories a depth of knowledge and skepticism uncommon to financial reporting.

Upon graduation from Saint Olaf College in Northfield, Minn., in 1976, Ms. Morgenson began her career as an editorial assistant at Vogue magazine. After spending two and a half years on Wall Street, she covered the financial world during stints at Money magazine, Worth magazine and Forbes Magazine.

Ms. Morgenson is the author, with Joshua Rosner, of “Reckless Endangerment,” a New York Times best seller about the origins of the 2008 financial crisis published in May 2011 by Times Books. She is also the author of “Forbes Great Minds of Business,” a book of five interviews with business leaders published in 1997 by John Wiley & Sons. She is the author, with Campbell R. Harvey, of “The New York Times Dictionary of Money and Investing” (2002).

In 2009, Ms. Morgenson won a Gerald Loeb Award in the “Beat Writing” category in her coverage of Wall Street. This followed her Gerald Loeb Award for excellence in financial commentary in 2002 and the American University School of Communication’s Annual Journalism Award for excellence in personal finance reporting in 2000. Ms. Morgenson has also served on two Pulitzer Prize juries, evaluating investigative reporting entries in 2009 and 2010.