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Daniel Golden

Daniel L. Golden (born 1957) is an American journalist, working as a senior editor and reporter for ProPublica. [1] He was previously senior editor at Conde Nast's now-defunct Portfolio magazine, [2] and a managing editor for Bloomberg News. [3] [4]

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Early life and education

Born in Toledo, Ohio, [5] Golden grew up in an academic family, as his parents Morris and Hilda Golden were both professors who would later teach at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. [6] Daniel Golden graduated from Harvard College in 1978 with a B.A. [6]

Journalism career

From 1978 to 1981, Golden was a reporter for the Springfield Daily News in Springfield, Massachusetts. [5] In 1981, Golden first joined The Boston Globe as a regional reporter, being promoted to general assignment and investigative reporter in 1982. From 1986 to 1993, Golden wrote for the Globe's Sunday "Focus" section and weekly magazine. [5] After a year as an investigative reporter, Golden was a special projects reporter for the Globe from 1994 until leaving in 1998. [5]

Golden joined The Wall Street Journal as a reporter in 1999. Beginning in 2000, Golden was the Boston deputy bureau chief for the Journal. [5]

As Deputy Bureau Chief at the Boston bureau of The Wall Street Journal he received the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 2004 for a series of articles on admissions preferences in elite American universities, specifically relating to the enormous advantages enjoyed by more affluent white students, [7] and the use of development cases (admissions based on potential donations). [8] He earned the 2011 Gerald Loeb Award for Beat Reporting for his article "Education Inc.". [9] Golden is also a three time recipient of the George Polk Award. [10]

A series of articles that Golden edited about Corporate Tax Inversions won Bloomberg's first Pulitzer Prize in 2015. [11] Golden also co-edited a ProPublica series on Latin American asylum-seekers caught between the U.S. government and the MS-13 gang, which won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. [12]

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References

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  2. "Daniel Golden | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved 2016-11-12.
  3. "Daniel Golden stories - Bloomberg". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2016-11-12.
  4. Pérez-Peña, Richard. "More WSJ Veterans Land at Bloomberg News". Media Decoder Blog. Retrieved 2016-11-12.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 "Daniel Golden". The Complete Marquis Who's Who Biographies. 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2020 via Nexis.
  6. 1 2 "About Me".
  7. Daniel Golden's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Articles
  8. Golden, Daniel (2006-09-09). "How Lowering the Bar Helps Colleges Prosper". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved 2012-06-10.
  9. "Loeb Award Winners". UCLA Anderson School of Management . June 28, 2011. Archived from the original on March 21, 2019. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
  10. Daniel Golden of the Wall Street Journal - George Polk Award Winner for Educational Reporting
  11. "Bloomberg Wins 2015 Pulitzer Prize". Bloomberg L.P. 2015-04-20. Retrieved 2016-11-12.
  12. "ProPublica and Partners Win Pulitzer Prize for MS-13 Coverage". ProPublica. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  13. Yglesias, Matthew (2 June 2017). "Jared Kushner is the domino Trump can least afford to fall in the Russia investigation". Vox . Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  14. Golden, Daniel (2007). The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way Into Elite Colleges-and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates. Three Rivers Press. ISBN   978-1-4000-9797-5.
  15. Golden, Daniel (10 October 2017). Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities. ISBN   9781627796354.
  16. "The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime by Renee Dudley, Daniel Golden". www.publishersweekly.com. 2022-08-03. Retrieved 2022-09-27.