Kurt Eichenwald

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Kurt Alexander Eichenwald (born June 28, 1961) is an American journalist and a best-selling author of five books, one of which, The Informant (2000), was made into a motion picture in 2009.

He served as a senior writer and investigative reporter with The New York Times, Condé Nast's company newspaper, Portfolio, and later, he served as a contributing editor and senior writer with Newsweek.

Eichenwald had been employed by The New York Times since 1986 and mainly covered Wall Street and corporate issues such as insider trading, accounting fraud, and takeovers, but the Bill Clinton pardon affair, federal health care policy, and sexual predators on the internet.

Early life and education

Eichenwald was born in 1961. He has claimed that he is "Episcopalian with a Jewish father." He graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas in Dallas and Swarthmore College. During his time at Swarthmore, he was also a founding member of Sixteen Feet, a cappella vocal octet.

Eichenwald suffered a concussion during his first months of college, which was immediately followed by epileptic seizures. Despite repeated grand mal seizures, he continued to attend school in November of his freshman year, although epilepsy was diagnosed in November.

He was banned from Swarthmore after two outdoor seizures on campus, in apparent violation of federal law. He called the United States Department of Health and Human Services and fought his way back to school, an experience that he credited with his ability to face institutions in his muckraking reports. He graduated from his class in 1983 and received a master's degree in political science with distinction.

Personal life

Eichenwald wrote about his epilepsy diagnosis at the age of 18 in 1979 in a New York Times magazine article about his illness.

He was lauded for his willingness to reveal his personal struggles to readers. For his 1987 work, he was awarded a journalism award from the Epilepsy Foundation of America. "Kurt Succeeded Where So Many Others Would Have Quit," Dean Rotbart wrote in a 2002 NewsBio article titled "Where So Many Others Would Have Quit."

Eichenwald was sent epileptogenic GIFs on Twitter in late 2016, after making critical remarks about Donald Trump. Following an interview about his Trump's allegations with Tucker Carlson, he said in mid-December that the second attempt, which came after an interview, would result in his seizure and that he'd be taking a short break from Twitter while pursuing legal action against the person who posted the photograph, which was disappointing. A Maryland man was arrested in March 2017 in connection with the incident and charged with cyberstalking. The federal cyberstalking charge was later dismissed, but he still faces one count of aggravated assault, with the tweet described as "a deadly weapon." On December 16, 2019, the defendant's trial began. Eichenwald prevailed in September 2020, though the criminal trial is now pending.

Eichenwald is married to Theresa Pearse, an internist. They have three children.

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Career at The New York Times

Eichenwald joined The New York Times in 1985 as a news clerk for Hedrick Smith, the newspaper's chief Washington reporter, after a year at the Election and Survey Unit at CBS News. Eichenwald, Smith's research assistant, deferred in 1986 to become associate editor of The National Journal in Washington, Washington, when Smith first wrote his book The Power Game. He was a regular contributor to The New York Times' op-ed page, writing amusing pieces about political issues during those years.

Eichenwald began as a news clerk for the national desk in New York in 1986, contributing to the paper's writing program for young reporters. He had been named New York Times Wall Street reporter by 1988.

His arrival on Wall Street coincided with the emergence of white-collar criminal probes in finance. He wrote about the stock trading scandal involving speculator Ivan Boesky and junk bond king Michael Milken, as well as the Treasury Market scandal at Salomon Brothers. He also covered the excesses of the takeover period, including the largest deal of the time, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company's acquisition of RJR Nabisco.

Eichenwald began writing about assorted corporate misdeeds in 1995. He produced a multi-part series for The New York Times, exposing serious deficiencies in the American industry of providing kidney dialysis therapies. The series culminated in the Clinton Administration's investigation of how to provide financial incentives to raise quality in dialysis care, which was a focus of Eichenwald's book. In 1996, the journalists were honoured with a George Polk Award for excellence in journalism, the first of two he had been given.

He began his dialysis series alongside Martin Gottlieb, a newspaper health reporter, in a multi-year probe into Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation, the country's largest health-care corporation at the time. According to Bruce Vladek, then the head of the Medicare program, the probe, which resulted in not only multiple articles in the paper and a federal probe into Columbia, but also significant reforms in the way the federal government paid hospitals. Eichenwald, Gottlieb, and two others' reporters' work was highlighted in an article in the magazine Content as the year's best public-service journalism. Eichenwald and his coworkers were rewarded with their second Polk award for their contributions to this field.

Eichenwald was recruited to The New York Times' senior reporter program in 1998. He collaborated with Gina Kolata, one of the newspaper's reporters, for a multi-year inquiry into how company needs influence the nation's medical research system. The essays explored drug and device testing, as well as how the interaction between insurance companies and the courts had prevented the testing of experimental procedures, including the use of bone marrow transplants for breast cancer treatment. The papers were credited with triggering new policies by American insurance companies that allowed for reimbursement to participants in federally approved medical studies for cancer treatment. Both Eichenwald and Kolata were named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for their respective contributions.

Eichenwald chronicled the unfolding of corporate scandals in 2002, including Enron, WorldCom, Arthur Andersen, Tyco, and others, becoming a television fixture on such shows as Charlie Rose and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer shedding the meaning of the recent developments. Eichenwald, along with several other New York Times journalists, was selected as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for their investigation into the corporate scandals.

In 2005, he edited a collection of New York Times articles about online child pornography. Justin Berry, a then-18-year-old boy who ran pornographic websites starring himself and other young males, was one of those articles. Eichenwald received the Payne Award for Excellence in Journalism for "maintending the editorial integrity of an important story while still assisting his source, Justin Berry, in covering Berry's participation in child pornography."

Eichenwald and Berry testified before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce subcommittee five months after the article's publication, giving Congressional testimony about internet child abuse. Eichenwald claimed in the testimony that he had stumbled onto Berry while reporting on documents that were deemed fraudulent, leaving him believing there was no news but that a child was in risk. Eichenwald testified, "I started trying to figure out if it was real, not for the sake of doing a story because truthfully I didn't think there would be a tale there."

Eichenwald testified that Berry was a real person in danger, and he and two others began an attempt to rescue the young man. Berry contacted him weeks after the fact had been completed, and the journalist said he wanted to tell everyone he knew about the online child pornography industry in the hopes of "bringing down" the illicit enterprise.

Eichenwald had paid Berry an undisclosed $2,000 before composing the news in 2007; the New York Times published a note saying that "the check should have been revealed to editors and readers." Eichenwald claimed that he and his wife used the money to pressure Berry to reveal his identity during the rescue attempt on the same day as a witness against one of Berry's abusers. Eichenwald testified that when Berry agreed to be a source for a news article, he told the young man that he would not begin reporting until the financial crisis was settled by Berry's return of funds to him from a lawful source of funds. Berry repaid a loan from his grandmother, which he used to repay him in July 2005, when the reporting began.

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