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Jake Bernstein is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author presently working with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). During a 25-year career, he has covered the civil war in Central America, industrial pollution in Texas, political corruption in Miami, system-crashing greed on Wall Street and the secret world of offshore money. He has written travel pieces, reviewed movies and books and taken his journalism to the radio and TV.
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Career
Bernstein, who speaks the Spanish language, began his journalism career in Latin America as a freelancer. After a brief stint at Pasadena [Texas] Citizen, Bernstein joined Miami New Times as a reporter-staff writer (1997-2002), where he covered political corruption, media and the environment with stories on the fight over Elián González, Everglades restoration and the 2000 presidential recount.
The Texas Observer
In mid-2002, Bernstein joined The Texas Observer as a reporter-editor, eventually rising to the position of executive editor in 2004 and served through 2008. During his tenure at the Observer, Bernstein covered stories on government surveillance, Tom DeLay’s money-laundering legislative takeover and Texas’ demographic shift. Under his leadership, Utne Reader named The Texas Observer, Best Political Magazine of 2005.
ProPublica
Bernstein joined ProPublica in 2008, shortly after its founding, where he worked as a business reporter. In 2011, he and a colleague won the Pulitzer Price for National Reporting for coverage of Wall Street in the lead up to the financial crisis. In 2014, Bernstein broke the story of the secret tapes of Carmen Segarra, a whistleblower bank examiner with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The story prompted a U.S. Senate hearing.
Panama Papers
Most recently, Bernstein worked as senior reporter the The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) on the Panama Papers. In addition to sharing a byline on the main story, Bernstein also authored ICIJ's piece on the Russia findings in "All Putin's Men: Secret Records Reveal Money Network Tied to Russian Leader" and story on "The Art of Secrecy" in the offshore world.
Books
Bernstein is co-author of VICE: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency, published by Random House in 2006.
He also recently announced a book titled Secrecy World, to be published by Henry Holt in Fall 2017, which takes an in-depth look at Panama Papers and the journalists that unearthed them. Bernstein signed with United Talent Agency (UTA) to sell the book for film and television.