Cheryl Strauss Einhorn

Cheryl Strauss Einhorn

For ten years, Cheryl worked as an editor and columnist at Barron’s, the Dow Jones weekly business and financial magazine, where she wrote articles for the front of the book, the cover slot and her column about the futures markets, entitled “Commodities Corner.” Her series of articles about Exide, the nation’s largest maker of car batteries, resulted in the company pleading guilty to conspiracy fraud charges, filing for bankruptcy and, at the end of December 2002, the chief executive was sentenced to serve 10 years in jail. At PolyMedica, the nation’s largest maker of diabetic test kits, her news-breaking series of articles resulted in the company being raided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and a Securities & Exchange Commission investigation into the company’s accounting practices. Named the best commodities reporter in the country, Cheryl also worked for CNBC during her tenure at Barron’s.sts.

Since leaving Barron’s, Cheryl has written for the New York Times Sunday Business Section as well as other print publications. Cheryl has also been working for the past few years in the Investigative News Unit at Inside Edition, where she won the 2005 ACE Award for achievement in consumer reporting for her news-breaking investigation into charities.

Cheryl received her Masters in Journalism from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism She graduated magna cum laude with a BA in history and government from Cornell University.