Name Daniel Golden Role Journalist | Education Harvard University | |
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Books The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way Into Elite Collegesand who Gets Left Outside the Gates Awards Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting | ||
Identity daniel golden
Daniel Golden (born 1957) is an American journalist, working as a senior editor for ProPublica. He was previously senior editor at Conde Nast's now-defunct Portfolio magazine, and a managing editor for Bloomberg News.
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As Deputy Bureau Chief at the Boston bureau of the Wall Street Journal he received the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 2004 for a series of articles on admissions preferences in elite American universities, specifically relating to the enormous advantages enjoyed by more affluent white students, and the use of development cases (admissions based on potential donations). Golden is also a three time recipient of the George Polk Award.
A series of articles that Golden edited about Corporate Tax Inversions won Bloomberg's first Pulitzer Prize in 2015.
He holds a B.A. from Harvard College.
He is the author of The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges—and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates. His second book. Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities, will be published by Henry Holt and Co. in October 2017.