David Cay Johnston
David Cay Johnston ( born December 24, 1948) is an investigative journalist and author of Economy issues. He has worked among others for the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. As a journalist, he revealed, among others, a spy scandal in the Los Angeles Police Department. In 2001 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting for the unveiling of hidden tax loopholes and tax inequalities in the United States.
Life stages
In 1968, Johnston began his career as a journalist at the San Jose Mercury News. In 1973, he left the newspaper and took a job as an investigative reporter at the Detroit Free Press and then worked from 1976 to 1988 for the Los Angeles Times. From 1988 to 1995 Johnston worked for The Philadelphia Inquirer, before joining The New York Times in February 1995. Since April 2008 he has been working among other things as a freelance writer for various newspapers and radio programs.
A special feature of Johnston is that he was early and already journalist ( he attended to the way journalists work, however, several higher class courses at different universities ) has not concluded a study, but nevertheless became a renowned tax expert. He teaches at Syracuse University and since 2008 has a column at Tax Analysts, a nonprofit organization that provides information on tax and fiscal policies worldwide.
Reports and nonfiction
2000 and 2003, Johnston was because of his reports finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2001 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting for the unveiling of hidden tax loopholes and tax inequalities. His revelations made for the halt of several tax evasion methods.
Other well-known reports of Johnston include, among other things, the revelation of a spying scandal at the Los Angeles Police Department and the revelation that the energy company Enron paid no taxes. He also revealed the misuse of donations for the charity United Way of America and revealed a perpetrator in a murder case in Los Angeles, creating a previously wrongly acquitted defendant.
Johnston is also the author of several nonfiction. His first book "Temples of Chance: How America Inc. Bought Out Murder Inc. to Win Control of the Casino Business " from the 1980s analyzed as above junk bonds financed some companies take control of the casino businesses acquired and discussed the existing corruption in the casino business. More books treated under the other topics lobbying with authorities, State aid to businesses and taxation policies. In 2004 he received for " Perfectly Legal" ( published late 2003 ) the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for the book of the year 2003.