Michael Rothfeld

Michael Rothfeld
Education	Columbia University (BA, MSJ)
Occupation	Journalist
Organization	The New York Times
Relatives	Eric Rothfeld (brother)
Awards	George Polk Award (2011)

Michael Rothfeld is an American journalist and writer. He was a leader of The Wall Street Journal reporting team that won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2019.[1][2][3]

Biography

Rothfeld graduated from Columbia University in 1993 and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1998.[4]

He started his journalism career by working for the Manhattan Spirit as an unpaid intern, eventually rising to become the newspaper's editor before departing for Columbia's journalism school in 1997.[5][6] He then joined The Philadelphia Inquirer as a suburban correspondent before spending seven years at Newsday on Long Island, New York covering local and state government.[5]

He was statehouse reporter at The Los Angeles Times from 2007 to 2010. From 2010 to 2019, he was an investigate reporter at The Wall Street Journal.[7] He was among a group of Journal reporters to win a George Polk Award for coverage of insider trading in 2011.[8]

Rothfeld was a lead contributor to the coverage of President Donald Trump’s hush-money payments during the 2016 campaigns to suppress the stories of two women who claimed to have had affairs with him, leading to a 2019 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his reporting team.[2]

In 2019, Rothfeld joined the metro desk of The New York Times as an investigative reporter.[5]

He co-authored the 2020 book The Fixers with his colleague Joe Palazzolo on their Pulitzer-winning coverage.[9][10]

References

1. "Staff of The Wall Street Journal". Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
2. "Michael Rothfeld - The New York Times". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
3. "A Wall Street Journal Pulitzer win brings pride — and relief — about their work exposing hush-money payments". Poynter. 2019-04-16. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
4. "Three Alumni Win Pulitzer Prizes". Columbia College Today. 2019-06-26. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
5. "Michael Rothfeld Joins Metro". The New York Times Company. 2019-08-23. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
6. "before the pulitzer". www.nypress.com. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
7. "WSJ reporter Rothfeld hired by New York Times". Talking Biz News. 2019-08-23. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
8. "Michael Rothfeld - News, Articles, Biography, Photos - WSJ.com". WSJ. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
9. Filipovic, Jill (January 16, 2020). "All the president's crooked men". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 9, 2021.
10. "Book Details The 'Bottom-Feeders' And 'Fixers' Who Enabled Trump's Election". NPR.org. Retrieved 2021-10-09.