Gretchen Morgenson

Gretchen Morgenson won the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 2002 for her New York Times coverage of Wall Street practices, focusing on conflicts of interest, executive pay, and shareholder rights. She co-authored "Reckless Endangerment" (2011) with Joshua Rosner, which traced the origins of the 2008 housing crisis to Fannie Mae and bank lobbying. Morgenson spent years at the NYT and later moved to the Wall Street Journal and NBC News. Her reporting consistently held financial executives and regulators accountable through multiple market cycles. Her investigations into predatory lending practices, executive compensation excesses, and the revolving door between Wall Street and regulatory agencies have contributed to multiple legislative and regulatory reforms, making her one of the most consequential financial investigative journalists of her generation.