Michael Hiltzik

Michael A. Hiltzik
Born	November 9, 1952 (1952-11-09) (age 59) New York City
Occupation	journalist, foreign correspondent, columnist, editor, blogger, author
Nationality	United States
Education	1973, B.A. in English, Colgate University 1974, M.Sc. in journalism, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Notable award(s)	2004 Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism 1999, beat reporting Pulitzer Prize
Spouse(s)	Deborah Ibert
Children	Andrew, David
Relative(s)	Harold & Bernice (Rothman) Hiltzik (parents)

Michael A. Hiltzik (born November 9, 1952 in New York City) is an American reporter and writer who has written extensively for the Los Angeles Times. In 1999, he shared the beat reporting Pulitzer Prize for co-writing an exposé of corruption in the music industry. In 2004, he won a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism.^[1]

Career

He was a journalist at the Buffalo Courier-Express (Buffalo, New York) 1974-1978 and bureau chief 1976-1978. He was a staff writer at the Providence Journal-Bulletin (Providence, Rhode Island) 1979-1981. He joined The Los Angeles Times as a financial writer 1981-1983, and was its financial correspondent in New York City 1982-1988, Nairobi bureau chief 1988-1993, Moscow correspondent 1993-1994. He was a financial staff writer, editor, and columnist at the Times 1994-2006.^[1] More recently, he began writing a column about business and economic issues in the US West Coast.

He won Silver Gavel award from the American Bar Association and the Overseas Press Club cited his reporting on East African issues. In 1996 he was a finalist for two Pulitzer Prizes, for his reporting on health care issues in California and his reporting on a major entertainment merger between Disney and ABC.^[2]

Along with Times Staff Writer Chuck Philips, Hiltzik won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for the articles they wrote on corruption and payola in the music industry.^[2] In 2004, Hiltzik won a Gerald Loeb Award for his contributions to financial journalism.^[3] In the mid-2000s, Hiltzik was suspended from posting to his blog on the LA Times (entitled "The Golden State") "... after he admitted...he'd been posting there, as well as on other sites, under false names. He used the pseudonyms to attack online conservative nemeses like Hugh Hewitt and L.A. prosecutor Patrick Frey (who eventually exposed him)."^[4][5]

Books

• Hiltzik, Michael A. (1991). A death in Kenya : the murder of Julie Ward. New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press. ISBN 038530191X.  LCCN 90-027198
• Hiltzik, Michael A. (1999). Dealers of lightning : Xerox PARC and the dawn of the computer age (1st ed.). New York: HarperBusiness. ISBN 0887308910.  LCCN 98-047043
• Hiltzik, Michael A (2005). The plot against Social security : how the Bush administration is endangering our financial future (1st ed.). New York, N.Y.: HarperCollinsPublishers. ISBN 006083465X.  (hardcover : acid-free paper) LCCN 2005-046132
• Hiltzik, Michael A (2010). Colossus : Hoover Dam and the making of the American century. New York: Free Press. ISBN 9781416532163.  LCCN 2009-033833

Further reading and media

• Transcript of 2005 TV interview on PBS
• Pogue, David (April 4, 1999). "Geek Lore". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/04/books/geek-lore.html?scp=1&sq=. Retrieved 2009-10-25.  book review of Dealers of Lightning

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Michael Hiltzik." Marquis Who's Who TM. Marquis Who's Who, 2009. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2009. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC. Document Number: K2016804504. Fee. Accessed via Fairfax County Public Library.
2. ^ ^{a b} "Gerald Loeb Awards - Michael Hiltzik". UCLA Anderson School of Management. 2006. Archived from the original on 2006-12-01. http://web.archive.org/web/20061201095110/http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x4983.xml. Retrieved 2009-10-25. "Mr. Hiltzik and Times Staff Writer Chuck Philips received the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for their articles exposing corruption in the entertainment industry, particularly in the recorded music business. Among other topics, the articles illuminated the operations of the Grammy Awards organization, the non-profit National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, showing that the Academy’s two charities paid out only a bare fraction of the millions of dollars it received as donations from record companies and performers to assist indigent and infirm musicians, while paying its own executives lavish salaries. Other articles in the award-winning package described the shortcomings of drug treatment programs sponsored by Hollywood institutions, and identified new forms of “payola,” or illicit payments for the promotion of music recordings, in the radio industry." 
3. ^ "Michael A. Hiltzik from HarperCollins Publishers". HarperCollinsCanada. http://www.harpercollins.ca/authors/4497/Michael_A_Hiltzik/index.aspx. Retrieved 2009-10-25. "Michael A. Hiltzik is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Los Angeles Times. In 2004 he won a Gerald Loeb Award, the highest honor in American financial journalism. Hiltzik is the author of Dealers of Lightning: Xerox Parc and the Dawn of the Computer Age and A Death in Kenya. He lives in Southern California with his wife and two sons." 
4. ^ Weiss, Michael (April 21, 2006). "I Spy Your IP". Slate Magazine. http://www.slate.com/id/2140453/. Retrieved 2009-10-25. 
5. ^ Kurtz, Howard (April 21, 2006). "Los Angeles Times Yanks Columnist's Blog - Hiltzik Accused of Using Pseudonyms". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/20/AR2006042002375.html. Retrieved 2009-20-25. "The Los Angeles Times suspended the blog of one of its top columnists last night, saying he violated the paper's policy by posting derogatory comments under an assumed name. The paper said in an online editor's note that Michael Hiltzik, a Pulitzer Prize winner who writes the Golden State column, had admitted posting remarks on both his Times blog and on other Web sites under names other than his own. The Times said it is investigating the matter. Editor Dean Baquet declined comment, and Hiltzik said he could not comment. The deceptive postings grew out of a running feud between Hiltzik and conservative bloggers in Southern California. One is Hugh Hewitt, a radio talk show host and blogger. The other is an assistant Los Angeles district attorney named Patrick Frey, who maintains a blog under the name Patterico's Pontifications." 

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Date of birth	1952-11-09
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