Bryan Gruley
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Veteran journalist Bryan Gruley (born November 1957) is the Chicago Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal
and author of the novel, Starvation Lake.
Starvation Lake is the first in a new mystery series set in a fictional northern Michigan town. It was published in March 2009 by Touchstone Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly calls the novel “one of those books that won’t shake its grip. Bryan Gruley is off to a phenomenal start.”
As chief of the Journal's Chicago bureau, Gruley runs a group of reporters who write about agriculture, food companies, restaurants, supermarkets, airlines, manufacturing, pharmacies, health care and the economy and culture of the Midwest.
Previously, Gruley was a senior editor in the Journal's Washington bureau, where he helped reporters write difficult stories for Page One, and wrote some himself, on a wide variety of financial and non-financial subjects.
He wrote one of the front page stories on Sept. 11, 2001, that won the Journal a 2002 Pulitzer Prize
for Breaking News
as well as the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Jesse Laventhol prize for newswriting. Gruley's Nov. 25, 2003, story, “War Stories,” about a black Army lieutenant and the Holocaust victim he saved, was an alternate finalist for a Pulitzer in feature writing.
Gruley joined the Journal in September 1995 as a reporter covering antitrust and telecommunications, and for two years managed a group of reporters who covered regulatory issues. He was a friend of Daniel Pearl
, the Journal reporter who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan in February 2002. Gruley wrote and recorded a song, “For A Son,” for Pearl’s then-unborn son, Adam.
Prior to the Journal, Gruley worked for 11 years as a reporter at The Detroit News
, covering business, including the auto industry and the Detroit newspapers' effort to get a joint operating agreement. His coverage of the latter resulted in a prize-winning book, Paper Losses: A Modern Epic of Greed and Betrayal at America's Two Largest Newspaper Companies (Grove Atlantic, 1993).
The native of Detroit also has worked at the Kalamazoo Gazette
; the Livingston County Daily Press & Argus
in Howell, Mich.; the Argus in Brighton, Mich.; and the Antrim County News in Bellaire, Mich. He is a 1979 graduate of the University of Notre Dame
. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Pam. They have three grown children, Joel, Kaitlin and Danielle.
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
and author of the novel, Starvation Lake.
Starvation Lake is the first in a new mystery series set in a fictional northern Michigan town. It was published in March 2009 by Touchstone Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly calls the novel “one of those books that won’t shake its grip. Bryan Gruley is off to a phenomenal start.”
As chief of the Journal's Chicago bureau, Gruley runs a group of reporters who write about agriculture, food companies, restaurants, supermarkets, airlines, manufacturing, pharmacies, health care and the economy and culture of the Midwest.
Previously, Gruley was a senior editor in the Journal's Washington bureau, where he helped reporters write difficult stories for Page One, and wrote some himself, on a wide variety of financial and non-financial subjects.
He wrote one of the front page stories on Sept. 11, 2001, that won the Journal a 2002 Pulitzer Prize
2002 Pulitzer Prize
-Journalism:* Public Service:**The New York Times, for A Nation Challenged, a special section published regularly after the September 11th terrorist attacks on America, which coherently and comprehensively covered the tragic events, profiled the victims, and tracked the developing story, locally...
for Breaking News
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
The Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting is a Pulitzer Prize awarded for a distinguished example of breaking news, local reporting on news of the moment...
as well as the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Jesse Laventhol prize for newswriting. Gruley's Nov. 25, 2003, story, “War Stories,” about a black Army lieutenant and the Holocaust victim he saved, was an alternate finalist for a Pulitzer in feature writing.
Gruley joined the Journal in September 1995 as a reporter covering antitrust and telecommunications, and for two years managed a group of reporters who covered regulatory issues. He was a friend of Daniel Pearl
Daniel Pearl
Daniel Pearl was an American journalist who was kidnapped and killed by Al-Qaeda.At the time of his kidnapping, Pearl served as the South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, and was based in Mumbai, India. He went to Pakistan as part of an investigation into the alleged links between...
, the Journal reporter who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan in February 2002. Gruley wrote and recorded a song, “For A Son,” for Pearl’s then-unborn son, Adam.
Prior to the Journal, Gruley worked for 11 years as a reporter at The Detroit News
The Detroit News
The Detroit News is one of the two major newspapers in the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan. The paper began in 1873, when it rented space in the rival Free Press's building. The News absorbed the Detroit Tribune on February 1, 1919, the Detroit Journal on July 21, 1922, and on November 7, 1960,...
, covering business, including the auto industry and the Detroit newspapers' effort to get a joint operating agreement. His coverage of the latter resulted in a prize-winning book, Paper Losses: A Modern Epic of Greed and Betrayal at America's Two Largest Newspaper Companies (Grove Atlantic, 1993).
The native of Detroit also has worked at the Kalamazoo Gazette
Kalamazoo Gazette
The Kalamazoo Gazette is the daily newspaper in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA. The Gazette is owned by Booth Newspapers which is owned by Advance Publications....
; the Livingston County Daily Press & Argus
Livingston County Daily Press & Argus
The Livingston County Daily Press & Argus is a daily newspaper published in Howell, Michigan and owned by Gannett. 'As its name implies, it covers news and sports within Livingston County and has offices in Howell and Brighton;. The Brighton office is scheduled to close December 2008. It's...
in Howell, Mich.; the Argus in Brighton, Mich.; and the Antrim County News in Bellaire, Mich. He is a 1979 graduate of the University of Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Catholic research university located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States...
. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Pam. They have three grown children, Joel, Kaitlin and Danielle.