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David Cay Johnston

@DavidCayJ

David Cay Johnston, while working at The New York Times, won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting for his coverage of loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code. He is a columnist for Tax Analysts and teaches the law of the ancient world at Syracuse University’s law and graduate business schools. “The Fine Print,” the third book in his series about the American economy, was published in 2012 by Penguin.

It’s Scary Out There in Reporting Land

‘Beats are fundamental to journalism, but our foundation is crumbling.’

Digging Beneath Quotes to Tell the Story

A reporter decides to ‘cover what government does instead of what politicians say.’