Background
Born July 20, 1970, he grew up in Hollywood, Florida, and attended Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale.
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Jonathan Weil
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Career
He earned a bachelor"s degree in journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1991 and a juris doctor degree from Southern Methodist University in 1995. Weil was a columnist for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg View from 2007 to 2014. He was managing director and editor of financial research at Glass Lewis & Company
(2006–2007), an investment-research and proxy-advisory firm in Broomfield, Colorado.
Before that, he was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal (1997–2005), where he wrote about accounting and finance. He began his career as a reporter at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1995–1997).
Weil has been credited by Columbia Journalism Review, Barron"s and The New Yorker magazine, among others, as the first reporter to challenge Enron"s accounting practices during the Internet bubble, for his September 20, 2000, WSJ article, "Energy Traders Cite Gains, But Some Mathematics Is Missing".
His columns for Bloomberg in 2007 and 2008 focused on questionable accounting practices at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Wachovia, Washington Mutual, Lehman Brothers, American International Group, Citigroup, and IndyMac.
2010 American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business Journalism 2009 American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business Journalism.
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United States