Gretchen Morgenson
Gretchen Morgenson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning senior financial reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit. Prior to joining NBC, she was a senior special writer in the Investigations Unit at The Wall Street Journal, where she worked closely with reporters in the money and the financial enterprise group. Before that, she spent almost 20 years as Assistant Business and Financial Editor and Columnist at The New York Times. During her tenure at The Times, she won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her “trenchant and incisive” coverage of Wall Street, and was named "The Most Important Financial Journalist of Her Generation" by The Nation in 2009. Earlier in her career, she was an editorial assistant for Vogue Magazine, focused on personal finance. Morgenson is the co-author of "Reckless Endangerment," about the origins of the 2008 financial crisis, and "These Are the Plunderers," an exposé on some of the biggest names in private equity.
Gretchen Morgenson Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Senior Financial Reporter, Investigations Unit
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Senior Special Writer
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Assistant Business and Financial Editor
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Assistant Managing Editor
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Stockbroker
Academic History
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B.A., English and History
HONORS & RECOGNITIONS
Morgenson has won 3 Gerald Loeb Awards, one of the highest recognition for excellence in journalism in the fields of business, finance and the economy.
She won the 2009 Gerald Loeb Awards for Beat Writing for "Wall Street" and another one for Large Newspapers for "The Reckoning."
She won the 2002 Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary and the 2003 Matrix Awards Hall of Fame Newspapers.
She has also served on two Pulitzer Prize juries, evaluating investigative reporting entries in 2009 and 2010.