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, 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.
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?
It looked like a routine traffic accident on a wet Long Island Highway. But it led investigators to a gigantic fraud they’re calling the Big Organized Russian Insurance Scam.
Former Reagan Attorney General Ed Meese has a way to slow the exodus of jobs overseas: Put prisoners to work.
Competition to make products for Western companies has revived an old form of abuse: debt bondage.
As he struggles to remake his family’s poultry business, John Tyson must prove he has more to offer than just the family name.
