Daniel Hertzberg (born February 3, 1946) is a former American

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. Hertzberg is a 1968 graduate of the

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. He married Barbara Kantrowitz, on August 29, 1976. He was the former senior deputy managing editor and later deputy managing editor for international news at ''

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''. Starting in July 2009, Hertzberg served as senior editor-at-large and then as executive editor for finance at ''

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'' in

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before retiring in February 2014.

Awards

* 1987 Winner (with James B. Stewart),

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for Deadline and/or Beat Writing for their coverage on an insider trading scandal on Wall Street * 1987 Winner (with James B. Stewart),

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 Financial Reporting * 1988 Winner (with James B. Stewart),

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* 1988 Winner Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers for "stories about an investment banker charged with insider trading and the critical day that followed the October 19, 1987, stock market crash" * 2008 Winner of the Gerald Loeb Award for Lifetime Achievement * 2015 Winner of the Elliot V. Bell Award, for his significant contribution to the world of financial journalism during his career

References

Living people American male journalists Gerald Loeb Award winners for Deadline and Beat Reporting Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism winners University of Chicago alumni Gerald Loeb Award winners for Large Newspapers Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award winners 1946 births {{US-journalist-1940s-stub