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Gregory Zuckerman

Gregory S. Zuckerman[1](born September 7, 1966) is a special writer atThe Wall Street Journaland a non-fiction author.

Education and family

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Gregory Zuckerman was born on September 7, 1966.[2][3]He grew up inRhode Islandand graduated fromBrandeis University,magna cum laudein 1988. He now lives inNew Jerseywith his wife and two sons. He works at the New York City bureau ofThe Wall Street Journal.[4]

Career

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Zuckerman started his journalism career as managing editor ofMergers and Acquisitions Report,a newsletter published by Investment Dealers' Digest. He left that position to write for theNew York Postcovering media companies. In 1996, Zuckerman joinedThe Wall Street Journalas a financial reporter.

At The Wall Street Journal, Zuckerman covered credit markets and wrote the widely read "Heard on the Street" column. As a special reporter in the Money and Investing section, he covers financial trades, hedge funds, private equity firms, the energy revolution, and other investing and business topics.

Zuckerman appears regularly on CNBC, Fox Business, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg Television, and various television networks. He regularly appears on National Public Radio, BBC, ABC Radio, Bloomberg Radio, and radio stations around the globe. He also gives speeches to business groups on a variety of topics. During one year, he spoke to groups in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Dallas, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Calgary, Montreal, and Niagara Falls.[5]

In October, 2021, he publishedA Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccineabout developing an mRNA vaccine. On November 7, 2021, he was featured in an interview with the noted virologists ofThis Week in Virology,TWiV.[6]

Awards and honors

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Zuckerman is a three-time winner of theGerald Loeb Award,the highest honor in business journalism. In 2015, he won the Gerald Loeb Award for Breaking News,[7]for a series of stories revealing discord among Bill Gross, founder of bond powerhouse Pimco, and others at the firm, including Mohamed El-Erian. The stories precipitated Mr. Gross's surprise departure from Pimco.

In 2007, Zuckerman was part of a team that won the Gerald Loeb Award for Deadline Writing coverage of the collapse of hedge fundAmaranth Advisors.[8]In 2003, he won the Gerald Loeb Award for Deadline Writing for coverage of the demise of telecom providerWorldCom.[9]He was part of a team that won the New York Press Club Journalism award in 2008. He was a finalist for the 2008 Loeb award for coverage of the mortgage meltdown and a finalist for the 2011 Loeb award for investigative news coverage of the insider trading scandal.

He was part of a team that won theNew York Press Club Journalism Awardfor investigative news coverage of the insider trading scandal in 2011.

Zuckerman broke the story about the trades by J. P. Morgan'sLondon Whalein 2012.[10][11][12]

He shared the 2015Gerald Loeb Awardfor Breaking News for "Abdication of the 'Bond King'" withKirsten Grind.[13]

Books

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  • The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History(2009)
  • The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters(2013), examines various individuals and independent companies who pioneered thefrackingprocess within the United States.[14][15]
  • Rising Above: How 11 Athletes Overcame Challenges in their Youth to Become Stars(2016), was authored by Greg Zuckerman and his two sons; it is a book for young readers and adults that describes the remarkable stories of how various athletes overcame imposing setbacks in their youth.
  • Rising Above: Inspiring Women in Sports(2018), was authored by Greg Zuckerman and his sons: it is a second book for young readers.
  • The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution(2019), the third non-fiction adult book authored by Greg Zuckerman is aboutJim SimonsofRenaissance Technologies.The Man Who Solved The Marketwas a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best seller. It was # 1 on the New York Times list of top-selling business books for the month of November, 2019, and was shortlisted in the FT/McKinsey competition for 2019 business book of the year.[16][17]
  • A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine(2021)

References

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  1. ^Honor rollbrandeis.edu[permanent dead link‍]
  2. ^Family search[user-generated source]
  3. ^Family search[user-generated source]
  4. ^Racaniello, Vincent,827: A shot to save the world with Greg Zuckerman,This Week In Virology (TWiV), Episode # 827, November 7, 2021
  5. ^"Gregory Zuckerman | C-SPAN.org".www.c-span.org.Retrieved2017-11-13.
  6. ^Racaniello, Vincent,827: A shot to save the world with Greg Zuckerman,This Week In Virology (TWiV), Episode # 827, November 7, 2021
  7. ^"UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2015 Gerald Loeb Award Winners".UCLA Anderson School of Management.June 24, 2015.RetrievedJanuary 31,2019.
  8. ^"2007 Gerald Loeb Award Winners Announced by UCLA Anderson School of Management".Business Wire.June 25, 2007.RetrievedFebruary 1,2019.
  9. ^"2003 Loeb Awards".UCLA Anderson School of Management.July 1, 2003. Archived fromthe originalon April 12, 2019.RetrievedFebruary 1,2019.
  10. ^"About The Author".Gregory Zuckerman.RetrievedNovember 24,2013.
  11. ^Bloomgarden-Smoke, Kara (November 6, 2013)."Meet The Frackers: Two Books By Journal Writers Explore The Hydraulic Fracturing Boom".New York Observer.
  12. ^"Gregory Zuckerman".UCLA Anderson School of Management. Archived fromthe originalon November 13, 2013 – viaInternet Archive.
  13. ^"UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2015 Gerald Loeb Award Winners".UCLA Anderson School of Management.June 24, 2015.RetrievedJanuary 31,2019.
  14. ^Zuckerman, Gregory (2013-11-03)."The Outsiders Who Saw Our Economic Future".Wall Street Journal.ISSN0099-9660.Retrieved2017-11-13.
  15. ^Sernovitz, Gary (November 1, 2013)."Book review: 'The Frackers' by Gregory Zuckerman".New Republic.
  16. ^Nocera, Joe (13 November 2019)."How to Beat the Market".The New York Times.
  17. ^"The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman".
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