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 rise of indentured servitude in Asian factories to the failures of airport security since 9/11. A selection of his work is available here.
Stein’s work has been published in Fortune, Men’s Vogue, Best Life, Parade, The Globe and Mail, Foreign Policy, and the Columbia Journalism Review.
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.
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.
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.
The price of beans has crashed. Growers around the world are starving. And the quality of your morning cup is getting worse. So why is everyone blaming Vietnam?
As he struggles to remake his family’s poultry business, John Tyson must prove he has more to offer than just the family name.
