11 Facts About Jesse Eisinger

1.

Jesse Eisinger is a graduate of Columbia College, where he majored in American Studies.

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Jesse Eisinger began his career with The South Pacific Mail in Santiago, Chile.

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In 2000, Jesse Eisinger was hired by The Wall Street Journal Europe, where he wrote the thrice-weekly column "Heard in Europe" for two years.

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4.

Jesse Eisinger moved to New York in 2002 to write for The Wall Street Journal.

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Several years later, Jesse Eisinger joined the Conde Nast Portfolio as the magazine's Wall Street editor.

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6.

Jesse Eisinger's cover story in November 2007, titled “Wall Street Requiem, ” predicted the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers.

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7.

Jesse Eisinger was hired as a senior reporter by the nonprofit investigative newsroom ProPublica in 2009.

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In 2009, Jesse Eisinger began work on a series of stories, “The Wall Street Money Machine, ” that revealed how Wall Street's morally questionable practices had led to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

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Jesse Eisinger was a New America Fellow in 2016 and 2017.

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10.

Jesse Eisinger would be nominated again for the Goldsmith in 2015 for a series of stories about the Red Cross, written with Justin Elliott of ProPublica and NPR's Laura Sullivan.

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11.

In 2015, Jesse Eisinger was honored with the Gerald Loeb Award for his Wall Street commentary.

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