13 Facts About Paul Solman

Paul Solman is an American journalist focused on economics, business, and politics since the early 1970s.

Paul Solman has been the business and economics correspondent for the PBS NewsHour since 1985, with occasional forays into art reporting.

Paul Solman's work has been recognized with eight Emmys, five Peabodys, a Loeb award, and a James Beard award for media.

Paul Solman was the East Coast Editor of Mother Jones magazine in the late 1970s.

Paul Solman co-authored, with longtime PBS executive and writer Thomas Friedman, Life and Death on the Corporate Battlefield in 1983.

Paul Solman taught at the Harvard Business School from 1985 to 1987.

Paul Solman lectured for years at the Yale Young Global Scholars program, the Warrior-Scholar program at Yale, has taught at West Point, among many universities, and was the Richman Distinguished Visiting professor at Brandeis in 2011.

Paul Solman has taught economics at Gateway Community College in New Haven, Connecticut, where he founded the Yale@Gateway speaker series.

Paul Solman co-produced, with Bob Burns, and presented a series of companion videos to McGraw-Hill economics textbooks.

Paul Solman's 2015 book Get What's Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security, a collaboration with economist Laurence Kotlikoff and author Philip Moeller, was a bona fide bestseller; the book was reissued in May 2016 due to changes in Social Security regulations.

Paul Solman was a visiting fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford University in 2016.

Paul Solman chairs the board and is an active recruiter of communities and support.

Paul Solman's father Joseph Solman was a painter and co-founder of The Ten art movement.