Joseph Nocera

Joseph Nocera

Joseph Nocera is a business columnist for The New York Times, and a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, specializing in business stories. Prior to joining the Times this past April, Nocera spent 10 years at Fortune magazine, where he held a variety of positions, including contributing writer, editor-at-large and executive editor. His last position at Fortune was editorial director.

Some of his most acclaimed feature stories in Fortune include "Fatal Litigation," his account of the battle between plaintiff's lawyers and Dow Corning over the silicon breast implants; "The Buzz Factory," an inside look at the business of Conde Nast; and "Heard on the Street", the story that first exposed the rift in the family that owns the majority stake in Dow Jones. Nocera has won two Gerald Loeb awards and three John Hancock awards for excellence in business journalism. His 1994 book, "A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class," won the New York Public Library's 1995 Helen Bernstein Award as the best non-fiction book of the year. In addition to his work at the Times, Nocera serves as a regular business commentator for NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon. Nocera earned a B.S. in journalism from Boston University in 1974. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts with his wife and their three children.