- Joseph Nocera
Joseph Nocera is an award-winning American business journalist and author. He has been a columnist for "
The New York Times " since April 2005. Nocera is also a business commentator forNPR ’sWeekend Edition with Scott Simon.Prior to joining "The New York Times", Nocera worked at "Fortune" from 1995 to 2005, in a variety of positions, finally as editorial director. Nocera was the "Profit Motive" columnist at "
GQ " from 1990 to 1995, and also wrote the same column for "Esquire " from 1988 to 1990.In the 1980s, Nocera was an editor at "
Newsweek "; an executive editor of "New England Monthly "; and a senior editor at "Texas Monthly ". In the late 1970s he was also an editor at "The Washington Monthly ".Nocera earned a B.S. in journalism from
Boston University in 1974, and now lives in New York, New York.Three of his "Fortune" articles are considered noteworthy:
*Fatal Litigation , concerning the struggle over silicone breast implants.
*The Buzz Factory , a backstage look at magazine publisher "Condé Nast", and,
*Heard on the Street , an expose of the divisions within the family that controls Dow Jones, the publisher of "The Wall Street Journal ".Awards
Nocera's 1994 book, "A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class", won the the
New York Public Library 's 1995 Helen Bernstein Award for best non-fiction book of the year.Nocera also won three Gerald Loeb (1993, 1996, 2008) and three Hancock (1983, 1984, 1991) awards. He has been made a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize this year.
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* [http://www.nytimes.com/ref/business/bio-nocera.html Joseph Nocera bio] at "
New York Times "
* [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dotcon/interviews/nocera.htmlPBS "Frontline" Interview]
* [http://www.newsbios.com/newslum/nocera.htm Biography at newsbios.com]
* [http://www.bu.edu/alumni/com/awards/ Nocera Biography]
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