I currently write primarily about U.S. corporations, including a range of corporate governance, executive pay, accounting and disclosure issues, for The Wall Street Journal. I have also written for Quartz, The New York Times' DealBook, and for footnoted, a blog and subscription service for professional investors. In 2012 I launched and ran an independent research company, Disclosure Matters (more detail here, or see the company website) and taught introductory reporting and news writing at the University of Maryland. During July and early August 2012, I blogged about business and the global economy for NPR's Planet Money.
My goal with this site is to bring together the various threads of my professional life, including current jobs, past work and future projects. You can see some of my work from over the years featured below. To the right, and at the TheoWire link, is a sporadically updated feed of all my new work, both from this site and (previously) from outside publications.
At the left are links to various current and past projects, each of which includes a variety of recent and featured articles and blog posts.
Let me know if you’d like to be on the list of people to whom I periodically email articles. For more on me and my past work, you can also see my resume, or my about me page.
Expansion of Graceland is benefiting from controversial tax incentives
The use of figures that exclude certain items is becoming more prominent in corporate filings
Tesla, Howmet and others rack up bigger tax bills after Congress limits deductions for executives and pay over $1 million
Accounting standard will require government officials to disclose value of property, sales and income taxes that have been waived