Daniel L. Golden (born 1957) is an American

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, working as a senior editor for

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. He was previously senior editor at

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's now-defunct Portfolio magazine, and a managing editor for

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News.

Early life and education

Born in

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, Golden grew up in an academic family, as his parents Morris and Hilda Golden were both professors who would later teach at the

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. Daniel Golden graduated from

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in 1978 with a

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Journalism career

From 1978 to 1981, Golden was a reporter for the ''

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'' in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1981, Golden first joined ''

The Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...

'' as a regional reporter, being promoted to general assignment and investigative reporter in 1982. From 1986 to 1993, Golden wrote for the ''Globes Sunday "Focus" section and weekly magazine. After a year as an investigative reporter, Golden was a special projects reporter for the ''Globe'' from 1994 until leaving in 1998. Golden joined ''

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'' as a reporter in 1999. Beginning in 2000, Golden was the Boston deputy bureau chief for the ''Journal''. As Deputy Bureau Chief at the Boston bureau of ''The Wall Street Journal'' he received the

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in 2004 for a series of articles on admissions preferences in elite American universities, specifically relating to the enormous advantages enjoyed by more affluent white students, and the use of development cases (admissions based on potential donations). He earned the 2011 Gerald Loeb Award for Beat Reporting for his article "Education Inc.". Golden is also a three time recipient of the George Polk Award. A series of articles that Golden edited about Corporate Tax Inversions won Bloomberg's first Pulitzer Prize in 2015.

Books

* '' The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges—and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates'', Three Rivers Press, 2007. * '' Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities'', Henry Holt and Co., 2017. * '' The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime'', Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. – with Renee Dudley

References

External links

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