Michael Rothfeld | |
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Education | Columbia University (BA, MSJ) |
Occupation | Journalist |
Organization | The New York Times |
Awards | George Polk Award (2011) |
Michael Rothfeld is an American journalist and writer. He was a leader of The Wall Street Journal reporting team that won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2019. [1] [2] [3]
Rothfeld graduated from Columbia University in 1993 and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1998. [4]
He started his journalism career by working for the Manhattan Spirit as an unpaid intern, eventually rising to become the newspaper's editor before departing for Columbia's journalism school in 1997. [5] [6] He then joined The Philadelphia Inquirer as a suburban correspondent before spending seven years at Newsday on Long Island, New York covering local and state government. [5]
He was statehouse reporter at The Los Angeles Times from 2007 to 2010. From 2010 to 2019, he was an investigate reporter at The Wall Street Journal . [7] He was among a group of Journal reporters to win a George Polk Award for coverage of insider trading in 2011. [8]
Rothfeld was a lead contributor to the coverage of President Donald Trump’s hush-money payments during the 2016 campaigns to suppress the stories of two women who claimed to have had affairs with him, leading to a 2019 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his reporting team. [2]
In 2019, Rothfeld joined the metro desk of The New York Times as an investigative reporter. [5]
He co-authored the 2020 book The Fixers with his colleague Joe Palazzolo on their Pulitzer-winning coverage. [9] [10]
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