Insight and detail. His reporting of financial scandals. Political and legal affairs. A new york firm for several years. Helping launch the magazine. The wall street journal. Coverage in 1987. Of the stock market crash. The downfall of the investment banker martin siegel. He left the journal to help establish smart money magazine. Start writing for the new yorker for the past eight years he has been a columnist. Looking at the world of business a distinguished commentary in 2016. He is also a professor of business journalism at columbia university. He has written nine previous books. One grew out of his wall street journal coverage and delved into the Insider Trading scandal of the 1980s. Bloodsport about the Clinton White house and white house affair, blind eye about a doctor who was a serial killer, heart heart of a soldier in 2002 a single victim of the september 11 attack, disney ward 2005. His new book the handling of two investigations that were going on during the 2016 campaign.
We weree just talking in the back, her discussion of life in a religious community, doubt, how you decide to leave or stay and how you defend yourself in those contexts is one of those conversations that we need to be having so much more as a culture. I think the it opens up so many doors for people. Megan is herself a writer and an activist. She leftp the Westboro Baptist church in november 2012 and is now an educator on topics relating to extremism and communication across ideological lines. At the age of 53, megan at the age of 5, peg began began protesting homosexuality. This church was founded by her grandfather and consisted almost entirely of her extended family. Picketing at military funerals and celebrations of death and tragedy. As the churchs twitter spokesman, megan was one of the few that interacted with the outside world, and twitter actually did something maybe we can applaud it for, it caused her to begin doubting the Strict Church members and its message. After digital
Ive been waiting for this day for quite a while since. Last june, when annes wonderful book came out and, i we were in d. C. Together. I knew that i could bring her out to. For this book, lure her out here and actually lure her back because she here once before. And i think thousand and four, when i was editing story that she did one of the many amazing, fabulous stories that is written for the Washington Post over many years and. You know, summer is over and my wife and i are ready to bill washington but sort of its a ritual that ill stay around for this book. First of all, for my friend conor moran used to run it and now jane rotondo, its one of my favorite events. For those of you who dont know and how shes actually a legend in. The newspaper world. She won Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for her Amazing Stories on the mistreatment of veterans of the iraq afghanistan wars at walter army medical center, where she basically embedded herself in the hospital rooms with the soldiers and documente
But but often we just, you know, all we can do is feel our way through it and know that at the end of it, you will have that new knowledge to make the thing you need to make. But that can we please, please, please give beth another round of applause. You can call. Ive been waiting for this day for quite a while since. Last june, when annes wonderful book came out and, i we were in d. C. Together. I knew that i could bring her out to. For this book, lure her out here and actually lure her back because she here once before. And i think thousand and four, when i was editing story that she did one of the many amazing, fabulous stories that is written for the Washington Post over many years and. You know, summer is over and my wife and i are ready to bill washington but sort of its a ritual that ill stay around for this book. First of all, for my friend conor moran used to run it and now jane rotondo, its one of my favorite events. For those of you who dont know and how shes actually a lege
And i think thousand and four, when i was editing story that she did one of the many amazing, fabulous stories that is written for the Washington Post over many years and. You know, summer is over and my wife and i are ready to bill washington but sort of its a ritual that ill stay around for this book. First of all, for my friend conor moran used to run it and now jane rotondo, its one of my favorite events. For those of you who dont know and how shes actually a legend in. The newspaper world. She won Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for her Amazing Stories on the mistreatment of veterans of the iraq afghanistan wars at walter army medical center, where she basically embedded herself in the hospital rooms with the soldiers and documented how they were being so shabbily treated. But, you know, she was also that story wonderful, but she wrote probably ten or 12 other stories that were equal or series that were equally great, of which were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. So, you know, that one s