Jonathan Weil is an American journalist, analyst and attorney. Born July 20, 1970, he grew up in Hollywood, Florida, and attended
Pine Crest School
Pine Crest School is a private preparatory school with campuses in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton, Florida. It was founded in Fort Lauderdale in 1934 by Mae McMillan, who also served as the school's first president. The ...
in Fort Lauderdale. He earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the
University of Colorado at Boulder
The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a Public university, public research university in Boulder, Colorado, United States. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a Federated state, state, it is the fla ...
in 1991 and a juris doctor degree from
Southern Methodist University
Southern Methodist University (SMU) is a Private university, private research university in Dallas, Texas, United States, with a satellite campus in Taos County, New Mexico. SMU was founded on April 17, 1911, by the Methodist Episcopal Church, ...
in 1995.
Biography
Weil was a columnist for
Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News (originally Bloomberg Business News) is an international news agency headquartered in New York City and a division of Bloomberg L.P. Content produced by Bloomberg News is disseminated through Bloomberg Terminals, Bloomberg T ...
and
Bloomberg View from 2007 to 2014. He was managing director and editor of financial research at Glass Lewis & Co. (2006–2007), an investment-research and proxy-advisory firm in Broomfield, Colorado. Before that, he was a reporter for
The Wall Street Journal
''The Wall Street Journal'' (''WSJ''), also referred to simply as the ''Journal,'' is an American newspaper based in New York City. The newspaper provides extensive coverage of news, especially business and finance. It operates on a subscriptio ...
(1997–2005), where he wrote about accounting and finance. He began his career as a reporter at the
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette'' is the newspaper of record in the U.S. state of Arkansas, printed in Little Rock with a northwest edition published in Lowell. It is distributed for sale in all 75 of Arkansas's counties.
By virtue of one ...
(1995–1997).
Weil was a
Gerald Loeb Award
The Gerald Loeb Awards, also referred to as the Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, is a recognition of excellence in journalism, especially in the fields of business, finance and the economy. The award was e ...
finalist in 2002 and won the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants Excellence in Financial Journalism Award in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. He won Society of American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business Journalism Awards in 2009, and 2010. He also won
The Society of the Silurians Award for Editorial Writing/Commentary in 2011.
Weil has been credited by Columbia Journalism Review, Barron's and The New Yorker magazine, among others, as the first reporter to challenge
Enron
Enron Corporation was an American Energy development, energy, Commodity, commodities, and services company based in Houston, Texas. It was led by Kenneth Lay and developed in 1985 via a merger between Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth, both re ...
's accounting practices during the Internet bubble, for his Sept. 20, 2000, WSJ article, "Energy Traders Cite Gains, But Some Math Is Missing". His columns for Bloomberg in 2007 and 2008 focused on questionable accounting practices at
Fannie Mae
The Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA), commonly known as Fannie Mae, is a United States government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) and, since 1968, a publicly traded company. Founded in 1938 during the Great Depression as part of the New ...
, Freddie Mac, Wachovia, Washington Mutual, Lehman Brothers, AIG, Citigroup, and IndyMac.
Awards and honors
*2010 American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business Journalism Awards
*2009 American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business Journalism Awards
*2011 Society of the Silurians Award for Editorial Writing/Commentary
Sources
* Audit Interview: Jonathan Weil
* Jonathan Weil On GoldmanGate
* Prepared Witness Testimony Full Committee on Energy and Commerce
* "Try to Go Beyond Accuracy"
* "Open Secrets"
* "Open Secrets"
* "Author Malcolm Gladwell"
* "Inside The Fall Of Enron"
* "The Claim Game"
* "CSI: Denver"
* "Energy Traders Cite Gains
* "Paper Tiger"
* "A Pox on Both Your Houses..."
* "The Role of Financial Journalists..."
See also
*
Tax haven
A tax haven is a term, often used pejoratively, to describe a place with very low tax rates for Domicile (law), non-domiciled investors, even if the official rates may be higher.
In some older definitions, a tax haven also offers Bank secrecy, ...
*
Ireland as a tax haven
Ireland has been labelled as a tax haven or corporate tax haven in multiple financial reports, an allegation which the state has rejected in response. Ireland is on all academic " tax haven lists", including the , and tax NGOs. Ireland does no ...
References
External links
Jonathan Weil's articles at Bloomberg.comAmerican Business Editors and Writers Best in Business Journalism Awards
1970 births
Living people
American online journalists
American newspaper journalists
University of Colorado Boulder alumni
Writers from Florida
People from Hollywood, Florida
Pine Crest School alumni
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