Michael Rothfeld
EducationColumbia University (BA, MSJ)
OccupationJournalist
OrganizationThe New York Times
AwardsGeorge 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]

Biography

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]

References

  1. ↑ "Staff of The Wall Street Journal". Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
  2. 1 2 "Michael Rothfeld - The New York Times". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
  3. ↑ "A Wall Street Journal Pulitzer win brings pride — and relief — about their work exposing hush-money payments". Poynter. 2019-04-16. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
  4. ↑ "Three Alumni Win Pulitzer Prizes". Columbia College Today. 2019-06-26. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
  5. 1 2 3 "Michael Rothfeld Joins Metro". The New York Times Company. 2019-08-23. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
  6. ↑ "before the pulitzer". www.nypress.com. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
  7. ↑ "WSJ reporter Rothfeld hired by New York Times". Talking Biz News. 2019-08-23. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
  8. ↑ "Michael Rothfeld - News, Articles, Biography, Photos - WSJ.com". WSJ. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
  9. ↑ Filipovic, Jill (January 16, 2020). "All the president's crooked men". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 9, 2021.
  10. ↑ "Book Details The 'Bottom-Feeders' And 'Fixers' Who Enabled Trump's Election". NPR.org. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
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