Business and Economic Reporting

Faculty

• Mike McIntire
  Adjunct Faculty
  
  

  Investigative Reporter, The New York Times
  B.A., Political Science, Hartwick College

  Mike McIntire is an investigative reporter at The New York Times. Before joining the Times in 2003, he was the investigative editor at The Hartford Courant, where he was a 2001 Pulitzer finalist for investigative reporting on medical malpractice and was part of a team that won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting. He has also been a national writer at the Associated Press in New York, and a reporter and editor at several Connecticut newspapers. His investigation of dangerous conditions at nuclear power plants earned him a 1997 National Press Foundation Award, and he received the 1992 Scripps Howard Foundation National Public Service Award for exposing political corruption in Connecticut.

• Adam L. Penenberg
  Associate Professor BER
  
  

  B.A., Economics, Reed College

  Professor Penenberg is an investigative journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Forbes, Wired, [Inside], Playboy and Mother Jones. A former Senior Editor at Forbes and reporter for Forbes.com, Penenberg garnered national attention in 1998 for unmasking serial fabricator Stephen Glass of The New Republic--portrayed in the film Shattered Glass (Steve Zahn plays Penenberg).

  A chapter of his first book, Spooked: Espionage in Corporate America (Perseus Books) was excerpted in The Sunday New York Times Magazine, while a portion of his second, Tragic Indifference: One Man's Battle With the Auto Industry Over the Dangers of SUVs (HarperBusiness, Nov. 2003), ran in USA Today. Penenberg has appeared on NBC's "Today Show" with Katie Couric, CNN's "American Morning" with Soledad O'Brien, Fox News, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CNBC and NPR.

  He wrote the popular "Media Hack" column for Wired News, was a columnist for Slate, and is now a contributing writer to Fast Company magazine.

• Stephen D. Solomon
  Associate Professor Carter Journalism Institute, Associate Director
  
  

  Business and Economic Reporting, Director
  
  Stephen Solomon’s most recent book, Ellery’s Protest: How One Young Man Defied Tradition and Sparked the Battle over School Prayer, explores the landmark 1963 case (Abington School District v. Schempp) in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that organized prayer and Bible reading in the public schools violated the First Amendment. The case still inflames passions today as Americans on the right and left debate what role, if any, that religion — prayer, creationism, intelligent design, and the Ten Commandments — should play in the public schools.
  
  Solomon is associate director of the Carter Journalism Institute. He is also the founder and director of the NYU Master of Arts program in Business and Economic Reporting. He received his B.A. degree from Pennsylvania State University and his law degree from Georgetown University. His academic specialty is First Amendment law, and he teaches courses on freedom of speech and freedom of the press in the Institute as well as in the Freshman Honors Program in the College of Arts and Science. He was awarded NYU’s Golden Dozen Award for excellence in teaching.
  
  Solomon was a writer at Fortune magazine and has written for many national publications, including The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, and The Nation. His articles have won the two most prestigious awards for business writing, the Gerald Loeb Award and the John Hancock Award for Excellence, as well as the Sidney Hillman Prize. Professor Solomon is also co-author of Building 6: The Tragedy at Bridesburg, an investigation of the working conditions that caused the deaths of 54 men from lung cancer at Rohm and Haas, a Fortune 500 chemical company in Philadelphia. The victims’ families later won a $25 million settlement from the company.

• Leslie Wayne
  Adjunct Faculty
  
  

  Leslie Wayne is a former business reporter for The New York Times. In her more than twenty years at The Times, she produced over 1500 bylines on a broad range of topics, including Wall Street, the economy and financial scandals. She has also been on The Times' campaign finance team in every Presidential election since 1996.

  Her Times' assignments have included enterprise reporting on major American corporations, executives and business trends. She has also been The Times' aerospace and defense reporter, its municipal finance reporter and been part of several investigative teams. Her reporting has put her in The Times' Washington bureau, its Los Angeles bureau and its bureaus in London and Paris.

  Ms. Wayne has appeared on CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News, CBS Radio as well as Times' podcasts and videos. She has an M.B.A. in finance from Columbia Business School and was also a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business Journalism at Columbia. She is a graduate of The University of Michigan and was a state house reporter for four years at The News and Observer in Raleigh, N.C. and a special assignment reporter for five years at The Philadelphia Inquirer. She was selected as the inaugural Donald W. Reynolds visiting professor in business journalism at Arizona State University, is a five- time winner of The New York Times "Publisher's Award," was part of a team that won a Gerald Loeb award and is a winner of the "Best of Bagehot" award honoring the best work from a Bagehot Fellow.