Steven Pearlstein

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Steven Pearlstein is an American columnist who wrote on business and the economy in a column published twice weekly in The Washington Post. His tenure at the WaPo ended on March 3, 2021. Pearlstein received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for "his insightful columns that explore the nation's complex economic ills with masterful clarity" at The Washington Post. In the fall of 2011, he became the Robinson Professor of Political and International Affairs at George Mason University.[http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2008-Commentary 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winners], pulitzer.org; accessed December 21, 2016.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/business/media/08pulitzers.html|work=The New York Times | title=Washington Post Wins Six Pulitzers|first=Richard|last=Pérez-Peña|date=April 8, 2008|accessdate=May 24, 2010}}

Education

Pearlstein was raised in Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1973, he graduated from Trinity College, Hartford.

Career

He started out in journalism at the Concord Monitor and the Foster's Daily Democrat, in New Hampshire. He was the founding publisher and editor of The Boston Observer, a monthly journal of liberal opinion, and was a senior editor at Inc. magazine for two years. Pearlstein then joined The Washington Post, where he has served as deputy business editor.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}

Pearlstein worked as a television news reporter at Boston’s public television station, WGBH-TV. During the late 1970s, he served as administrative assistant to U.S. Senator John A. Durkin and U.S. Representative Michael J. Harrington and was elected to the position of town moderator in West Newbury, Massachusetts.

He shared the 2006 Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary,{{Cite web |url=http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/2006-Gerald-Loeb-Award-Winners-7157 |title=2006 Gerald Loeb Award Winners Announced by UCLA Anderson School of Management |last=Lowe |first=Mary Ann |date=June 27, 2006 |website=UCLA |access-date=February 1, 2019}} and received the Gerald Loeb Lifetime Award in 2011.{{Cite web |url=https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/media-relations/2011/loeb-award-winners |title=Loeb Award Winners |date=June 28, 2011 |website=UCLA Anderson School of Management |access-date=February 2, 2019}}

In 2018, he published a work of nonfiction, Can American Capitalism Survive?: Why Greed Is Not Good, Opportunity Is Not Equal, and Fairness Won't Make Us Poor.

Personal life

As of 2008 he lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Wendy Gray, and two children.[http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x15021.xml UCLA Anderson School of Management] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060830104237/http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x15021.xml |date=2006-08-30 }}, anderson.ucla.edu; accessed December 21, 2016.[http://www.fdic.gov/news/conferences/economic_outlook/bio.html FDIC 2006 Economic Outlook Roundtable: Scenarios for the Next U.S. Recession], fdic.gov; accessed December 21, 2016.

References

External links

[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032400138.html Steven Pearlstein's Columns in The Washington Post]
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