Gregory Zuckerman

Special Writer, Wall Street Journal

 

Gregory Zuckerman is a Special Writer at "The Wall Street Journal" and author of “The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History,” a Wall Street Journal and New York Times best-seller published by Broadway Business, a division of Random House. He writes about hedge funds, private-equity firms, big financial trades and other investing topics. In the past, Greg wrote the widely read "Heard on the Street" column and covered the credit markets.

 

Greg was part of a team that won the 2007 Gerald Loeb award -- the highest honor in business journalism -- for breaking news coverage of the collapse of hedge fund Amaranth Advisors, and he was part of a team that won the 2003 Gerald Loeb award for breaking news coverage of the demise of telecom provider WorldCom. Greg also was part of a team that won the New York Press Club Journalism award, and he was  a finalist  for  the 2011 Gerald Loeb award, for investigative news coverage of the insider trading scandal, and was a finalist for the  2008 Gerald Loeb award, for coverage of the mortgage meltdown.

 

Greg appears regularly on CNBC, Fox Business and other television networks to discuss hedge funds, stocks and financial trades, and he makes regular appearances on National Public Radio, Bloomberg Radio and radio stations around the globe.

 

Greg joined the Journal in 1996 after writing about media companies for the New York Post. Previously, he was the managing editor of Mergers & Acquisitions Report, a newsletter published by Investment Dealers' Digest. He graduated from Brandeis University in 1988, Magna Cum Laude. He lives with his wife and two sons in West Orange, N.J., where they enjoy the Yankees in the summer, the Giants in the fall, and Linsania in the winter.