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Kurt Eichenwald

American journalist

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Also known as Kurt Alexander Eichenwald

Born: June 28, 1961
Birthplace: New York City
Citizenship: United States
Occupation: journalist
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1.Stated in Muck RackRetrieved 2022-04-03
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Education: Swarthmore College
Employer: Newsweek
Languages spoken, written or signed: English
Notable work: The Informant

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Kurt Alexander Eichenwald is an American journalist and a New York Times bestselling author of six books, one of which, The Informant (2000), was made into a motion picture in 2009. He was a senior writer and investigative reporter with The New York Times, Condé Nast's business magazine, Portfolio, and later was a contributing editor with Vanity Fair and a senior writer with Newsweek. Eichenwald had been employed by The New York Times since 1986 and primarily investigated corporate topics such as insider trading, accounting scandals, and takeovers, but also wrote about a range of issues including terrorism, the Bill Clinton pardon controversy, federal health care policy, and sexual predators on the Internet.

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TThe Informant!2009 · 2009 film by Steven Soderbergh

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Awards: George Polk Award(1995)
Given name: Kurt
Website: kurteichenwald.com language: English
Family name: Eichenwald
Sex or gender: male
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1.Stated in Virtual International Authority FileRetrieved 2018-11-04
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Social media followers: 497,325(February 6, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 215207998
511,095(January 8, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 215207998
506,207(January 3, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 215207998
439,425(May 10, 2018) x (twitter) numeric user id: 215207998

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