Welcome to the website of investigative journalist Nicholas Stein.
Stein’s articles cover a wide range of economic, political, and social subjects, from Russian organized insurance fraud to the bankruptcy of banana giant Chiquita to the failures of airport security since 9/11. A selection of his work is available here.
Stein’s work has appeared in Fortune, Men’s Vogue, Best Life, Parade, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Life, Foreign Policy, and the Columbia Journalism Review. He has also produced investigative stories for CBC television.
A 2011 recipient of a CAJ award, Canada’s highest investigative reporting honour, Stein also received a 2011 Canadian Medical Association Award for reporting.
A three-time winner of the Business Journalist of the Year Award, Stein has also been anthologized in the Best Business Stories of the Year, and has been a finalist for a Gemini award (the Canadian Emmy’s) and a National Magazine Award.
Stein has taught journalism at New York University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and holds a BA in English from McGill University and a masters degree in journalism from Columbia.
A Canadian woman whose California nursing licence was revoked over “gross negligence” is working at a Greater Toronto Area hospital.
Barack Obama has inherited a number of serious domestic crises, but few are as potentially devastating as our unresolved answer to airport security.
Convicted of fraud and obstruction of justice, media baron Conrad Black is facing 35 years in federal prison. On the eve of his sentencing, the unrepentant defendant speaks out for the first time about what he lost—and how he’ll get it back.
Hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb has made a killing by putting his mouth where his money is. But with the trillion-dollar industry under siege and investors getting restless, is the sun finally setting on hedge fund cowboys?
Competition to make products for Western companies has revived an old form of abuse: debt bondage.
