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Academics

  

Knight-Bagehot Fellows of 2008-2009

Thomas M. Anderson, 31, associate editor for Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine based in Washington D.C., gives financial advice to more than 800,000 readers. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in journalism from University of Missouri-Columbia in 1999, he reported for nearly two years for the St. Louis Business Journal. He moved to ANG Newspapers in Pleasanton, California, where he won an award from the local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists for a series of articles about mortgage-lending practices. In 2004, he joined Employee Benefit News in Washington D.C. and moved to Kiplinger’s in January 2006.
Elizabeth Harris, 33, joined Worth Magazine as a staff writer in 2005. There she has written about hedge funds, private equity investing, wealth management, philanthropy and the art market. After graduating cum laude from Wellesley College in 1996, she got her start writing for little newspapers in Eastern Massachusetts, and in 1998 she joined The Bond Buyer, where she was promoted to cover New England. She worked briefly at SmartMoney.com and then in 2001, she began freelancing to a host of publications, including The New York Times, where she became one of the first reporters to explore the developing field of behavioral finance for a general readership.
Brian Hindo, 28, arrived at BusinessWeek as an intern in 2001, and now, as editor of the corporate strategies department, writes mostly feature-length pieces. Last spring, he was named to the “30 under 30” list of the best young business journalists by the TJFR Group. As a student at University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 2002, he was a sports writer and spent summers interning, including as a news desk assistant for NBC News during the 2000 Republican convention. He has received numerous awards, including ASBPE’s Northeast Region Bronze Award and the National Online Bronze Award.
Megan Johnston, 27, is a reporter for Financial Week, a Crain Communications publication, where she and her colleagues were finalists for a 2008 Neal Award for best news coverage of the credit crunch. She graduated in 2002 with a bachelor of science in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Before joining Financial Week in 2007, she worked for two-and-a-half years as a reporter for Money Magazine and then, for two years, as a reporter for Forbes Magazine.
Richard G. Jones, 37, a metro reporter for The New York Times based in the Newark. N.J., bureau, grew up in North Philadelphia. After graduating from the University of Delaware in 1993 with a B.A. in English/journalism, he interned at The Chicago Tribune, and was then hired as a reporter by The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he worked for nearly eight years. In 2001, he joined The New York Times, where, in 2003, he and a colleague were nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for a year-long investigation into the failings of New Jersey’s child welfare system.
Natalie Obiko Pearson, 31, covers OPEC and African energy for Dow Jones Newswires based in London. Previously, she was the oil and business correspondent in Caracas, Venezuela, for The Associated Press. She was appointed to this position in 2005 following three years as a general news reporter in Tokyo. Born and raised in Kobe, Japan, she is trilingual in Japanese, Spanish and English and holds a B.A. in comparative literature from Princeton University. A dual Australian-Japanese citizen, she has lived, worked or traveled in more than 20 countries.
Daniel Sorid, 30, joined The Associated Press in 2006 and has been supervising the AP’s weekend investing service, Extra. Between 2000 and 2006, he worked at Reuters News as a reporter in New York and San Francisco, and oversaw training and staff development at Reuters’ offshore U.S. business newsroom in Bangalore, India. Before that, he spent a year covering space exploration and the aerospace business at Space.com, and wrote technology stories for the Circuits section of The New York Times. He received a bachelor of arts in economics from Columbia University in 1999.

Kyle Stock, 30, has been writing for the business desk of The Post and Courier, a daily newspaper in Charleston, S.C., since early 2003, where he covers utilities, technology and tourism, the state’s largest industry. Previously, he worked briefly for Bloomberg News in Brussels, PC World in Washington D.C., and Shore Line Times in Guilford, Conn. He graduated in 1999 from The Colorado College, and in 2003, he received a master of science in Journalism from Northwestern University.

Stuart Washington, 41, is a senior business reporter for the Australian newspaper, the Sydney Morning Herald. Previously, he was the news editor at Australia’s business magazine, Business Review Weekly, and worked in Singapore covering the dotcom boom for a magazine called BusinessOnline. He has also covered the preparations for the Olympics in Sydney for The Australian Financial Review. Washington began his career in journalism as a police reporter for The Newcastle Herald, and now focuses on writing investigative features covering issues in the financial markets.
Jim Wyss, 37, was hired by The Miami Herald in 2005 to develop its small business and entrepreneurship beat. Raised in Central and South America, he graduated from The American University in 1993 and moved to Mexico, where he worked briefly for The Mexico City News and The Mexico City Times. He joined Bridge News in 1996 to cover Mexico’s financial markets, and five months later, was asked to start Bridge’s Ecuador bureau in Quito. He then spent six years traveling through South America, freelancing for numerous publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle and The New York Times. For the past two years, the National Minority Chamber of Commerce has named him the best business reporter in Florida for his work covering the Latino and Afro-Caribbean business communities.