Jonathan Weil is a columnist for Bloomberg News. Born July 20, 1970, he grew up in Hollywood, Florida, and attended Pine Crest School

Pine Crest School

Pine Crest School is a private college preparatory school with campuses in Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It was founded in Fort Lauderdale in 1934 by Mae McMillan who began as a tutor to children of families spending the winter in South Florida, USA. In 1995, Dr. Lourdes Cowgill became...

 in Fort Lauderdale. He earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder

University of Colorado at Boulder

The University of Colorado Boulder is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado...

 in 1991 and a juris doctor degree from Southern Methodist University

Southern Methodist University

Southern Methodist University is a private university in Dallas, Texas, United States. Founded in 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, SMU operates campuses in Dallas, Plano, and Taos, New Mexico. SMU is owned by the South Central Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church...

 in 1995.

Prior to joining Bloomberg as a columnist in 2007, Weil was managing director and editor of financial research at Glass Lewis & Co. (2006–2007), an investment-research and proxy-advisory firm in Broomfield, Colorado. Before that, he was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal

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....

 (1997–2005), where he wrote about accounting and finance. He began his career as a reporter at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is the newspaper of record in the U.S. state of Arkansas, printed in Little Rock with a northwest edition published in Lowell...

 (1995–1997).

Weil was a Gerald Loeb Award

Gerald Loeb Award

The Gerald Loeb Award, also referred to as the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, is a recognition of excellence in journalism, especially in the fields of business, finance and the economy. The award was established in 1957 by Gerald Loeb, a founding partner of...

 finalist in 2002 and won the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants Excellence in Financial Journalism Award in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. He won Society of American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business Journalism Awards in 2009, and 2010. He also won the Society of the Silurians Award for Editorial Writing/Commentary in 2011.

Weil has been credited by Columbia Journalism Review, Barron's and The New Yorker magazine, among others, as the first reporter to challenge Enron Corp's accounting practices during the Internet bubble, for his Sept. 20, 2000, WSJ article, "Energy Traders Cite Gains, But Some Math 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, AIG, Citigroup, and IndyMac.

Awards & Honors

• 2010 American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business Journalism Awards
• 2009 American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business Journalism Awards
• 2011 Society of the Silurians Award for Editorial Writing/Commentary

See also

• Audit Interview: Jonathan Weil
• Jonathan Weil On GoldmanGate
• Prepared Witness Testimony Full Committee on Energy and Commerce
• "Try to Go Beyond Accuracy"
• "Open Secrets"
• "Open Secrets"
• "Author Malcolm Gladwell"
• "Inside The Fall Of Enron"
• "The Claim Game"
• "CSI: Denver"
• "Energy Traders Cite Gains
• "Paper Tiger"
• "A Pox on Both Your Houses..."
• "The Role of Financial Journalists..."

External links

• Related Articles http://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/weil/
• American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business Journalism Awards http://sabew.org/2010/03/sabew-announces-winners-in-15th-annual-competition/