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Richard Behar is an American
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. Since 2012, he has been the Contributing Editor of Investigations for
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. From 1982 to 2004, he wrote on the staffs of ''
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'', ''
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'' and '' Fortune''. Behar's work has also been featured on
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magazine. He coordinates Project Klebnikov, a media alliance to probe the Moscow murder of Forbes editor Paul Klebnikov. He is writing a book about
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. Behar is editor of Mideast Dig.


Education and career

Behar was born to a
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family in
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and raised on Long Island. He is a 1982 graduate of New York University. Before joining ''Time'' in 1989, he was a reporter and associate editor for ''Forbes'' magazine for six years. He has also worked at ''
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'' as a researcher and writer. Behar reported extensively about
organized crime Organized crime (or organised crime) is a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for profit. While organized crime is generally th ...
and the business backgrounds of politicians for ''Time'', for whom Behar wrote a 1993 cover story on the
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bombing. In 1991, he wrote "
The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power" is an article, written in 1991 by U.S. investigative journalist Richard Behar, which is highly critical of Scientology. It was first published by ''Time'' magazine on May 6, 1991, as an eight-page cover s ...
", a ''Time'' cover story on
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"Ruined lives. Lost fortunes. Federal crimes:
Scientology poses as a religion but really is a ruthless global scam – and aiming for the mainstream", book rev. of ''"The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power'', ''
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'', May 6, 1991: 50, rpt. in ''cs.cmu.edu'', accessed May 11, 2007. art of "Special Report (cover story)"./ref> The acclaimed article won several awards. The Church of Scientology brought several lawsuits over the article, all of which were eventually dismissed. While investigating the story, he experienced some of Scientology's Fair Game tactics. He later learned that a copy of his personal credit report, containing detailed personal information, had been improperly obtained. A 2003 report by Behar in ''Fortune'' explored Donald Rumsfeld's role in helping
North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and T ...
build its potential
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capacity, in an article entitled "Rummy’s North Korea Connection: What Did Donald Rumsfeld Know About ABB’s Deal to Build Nuclear Reactors There? And Why Won’t He Talk About It?" Behar is the only known journalist to have read the classified Phoenix Memo, the infamous pre-9/11 FBI document which warned the FBI about Osama bin Laden supporters enrolling in flight-training schools across the country. Reporting from Pakistan for Fortune magazine and CNN after 9-11, Behar’s “The Karachi Connection” broke ground by exposing a logistics leader of the 9-11 attacks—including his secret travels near the Afghanistan border just days before the terror attacks. A second article, "Kidnapped Nation" revealed how radical forces are undermining Pakistan's economy. Behar and Time Inc. were sued for libel in June 2001 by the billionaire brothers David and Simon Reuben, who built one of the world's largest aluminum companies, Trans-World Group. They claimed Behar defamed them in a 2000 ''Fortune'' article. Shortly before trial, in July 2004, the suit was settled after ''Fortune'' ran a lengthy clarification. In October 2004, Behar left Fortune to pursue book writing and various independent projects, including the launch of Project Klebnikov, a global media alliance investigating the July 2004, murder of Paul Klebnikov, who was then the editor-in-chief of '' Forbes Russia''. Behar also served on the advisory committee of
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's business journalism Master's program (BER), and has long been reporting and writing a book about Bernard Madoff, to be published by Simon & Schuster. The book was initially purchased by Random House. In 2015, Behar co-wrote an article for the '' New York Observer'' that accused
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of improperly reporting civilian deaths in the 2015 Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. In 2015, Behar and journalist Gary Weiss co-founded The Mideast Reporter, now known as Mideast Dig, a not-for-profit news site and investigative journalism project. Its aim is to deepen news coverage of the Middle East. Weiss left the venture in November 2015.


Recognition

Behar has won more than 20 major journalism awards and honors for his reporting. Behar was included among the 100 best business journalists (the "100 luminaries") of the 20th century by the TJFR business journalism trade group. In 1999, columnist Jack Anderson called Behar "one of the most dogged of our
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Awards

Behar has won journalism awards, including: *Four awards in recognition of his 1991 story for ''Time'' about Scientology: # Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial journalism in a magazine(1992) #
Conscience-in-Media Award The Conscience-in-Media Award is presented by the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) to journalists that the society deems worthy of recognition for their distinctive contributions. The award is not given out often, and is awarde ...
from the American Society of Journalists and Authors (1992) "for singular commitment to the highest principles of journalism at notable personal cost"Awards history
at American Society of Journalists and Authors. #
Worth Bingham Prize The Worth Bingham Prize, also referred to as the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Reporting, is an annual journalism award which honors: "newspaper or magazine investigative reporting of stories of national significance where the public inter ...
(1992) #
Cult Awareness Network The Cult Awareness Network (CAN) was an anti-cult organization created by deprogrammer Ted Patrick that provided information on groups that it considered to be cults, as well as support and referrals to deprogrammers. It was founded in the wak ...
's Leo J. Ryan Award * George Polk Award (twice): One for his 1995 story about the strong-arm tactics used by the Allstate Insurance Co. against its own employees; a second Polk for a 2008 story about China's activities in sub-Saharan Africa *Business Journalist of the Year Award from the
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for articles about counterfeiting in China and organized crime in Russia's aluminum industry *
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Award for post- 9/11 journalism *2002 Morton Frnak Award,
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for post- 9/11 journalism in
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*2008 Ed Cunningham Award,
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for China's activities in sub-Saharan Africa * Jack Anderson Award (twice) for "Top Investigative Reporter of the Year" – 1997 and 1999 * National Headliner Award, as a member of the CNN Investigation Team, for "outstanding continuing coverage of attacks on America and their aftermath." * SAPA award (Society of Publishers in Asia) for best feature writing for an in-depth account of the royal family of Brunei * "Best of the Best" award in 2009 from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW), for an article on China's business activities in sub-Saharan Africa. *''Fortune'' was awarded the National Magazine Award for public interest for two articles written by Behar on organized crime's influence in the garbage-hauling industry (1997) Retrieved May 11, 2010. *2008
George Polk Award The George Polk Awards in Journalism are a series of American journalism awards presented annually by Long Island University in New York in the United States. A writer for Idea Lab, a group blog hosted on the website of PBS, described the awar ...
for articles in ''Fast Company'' * In 2013, finalist for a Loeb award for a Forbes magazine article about Hess Oil's Russian mob problem.


Notes


External links

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ProjectKlebnikov.org
nbsp;– 'Leo Award Winner Richard Behar at CAN Conference 1992'

for Leo J. Ryan award
MediaBistro Bio
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