Craig Torres is an American financial

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, and reporter for

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He graduated from

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, and was a Bagehot Fellow at

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in 1989. Torres worked for a decade at ''

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'' in the 1990s in a variety of jobs ranging from "Heard on the Street" columnist to chief of the paper's

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bureau, where his work on the peso collapse made the finalist list for the 1996

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in international reporting."The 1996 Pulitzer Prize Winners: International Reporting"
The Pulitzer Prizes (1996). Retrieved March 16, 2011 Torres and Bloomberg colleagues

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and Alison Fitzgerald won the

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for National Reporting in 2009 related to their work on

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disclosure. The four journalists also won 2010

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for newspaper journalism. Bloomberg News sued the

for disclosure related to separate

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(FOIA) requests filed by Torres and Pittman. The requests sought information on financial assistance provided by the Fed during the

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. The Fed disclosed Torres' component of the FOIA in March 2010, after the U.S. District Court in New York held that the Fed should release documents related to Bloomberg's request. He is a member of the

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Awards

*2010

*2009

"Long Island University Announces Winners of 2009 George Polk Awards in Journalism"
Long Island University (February 16, 2010). Retrieved March 16, 2011 *1996

in international reporting (finalist)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Torres, Craig American male journalists Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni George Polk Award recipients Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Harvard College alumni