Richard Behar *
Investigative journalist Richard Behar spent nine years with Fortune
magazine (1995-2004), preceded by six years at Time and six years at
Forbes. Prior to that, he was a stringer/researcher at the New York
Times. His work for magazines (as well as CNN) has garnered him 20
journalism awards - George Polk, Loeb, National Magazine, Worth
Bingham, Daniel Pearl, Overseas Press Club, among others -- on subjects
ranging from the royal family of Brunei to the Church of Scientology;
from counterfeiting in Beijing to terrorism financing in Karachi; from
organized crime in Siberia to corporate wrongdoing on Wall Street. His
work has taken him to numerous countries, including Russia, Cyprus,
Pakistan, China, Indonesia and Cuba. He was included among the
100 top business journalists of the 20th century by The Journalist and
Financial Reporter,
and was named Business Journalist of the Year in London in 2001.
Behar also received the Conscience-in-Media Award from the American
Society of
Journalists and Authors for "singular committment to the highest
principles of journalism at notable personal cost." In late 2004, Behar
left Fortune and Time, Inc. to focus on investigative books and to
develop Project
Klebnikov. He is a journalism graduate of New York University, who
today serves on the advisory committee of the school's business
journalism masters program.
* Richard Behar is the director of Project Klebnikov.
contact:
behar@richardbehar.com
www.richardbehar.com
1-212-479-7788 (tel)
