Name Kirsten Grind | Role Journalist | |
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Books The Lost Bank: The Story of Washington Mutual-The Biggest Bank Failure in American History Nominations Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting | ||
Kirsten Grind (née Kirsten Orsini-Meinhard, born July 28, 1979) is an award-winning American journalist and author. She is a financial reporter for The Wall Street Journal in New York City, and the author of the book THE LOST BANK: The Story of Washington Mutual—The Biggest Bank Failure in American History (Simon & Schuster, June 2012).
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Career
Kirsten Grind is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal based in New York. At the WSJ, she covers the mutual fund industry and asset managers. Previously she was the banking reporter at the Puget Sound Business Journal in Seattle, where she wrote a series of investigative stories about the collapse of Washington Mutual. Those stories, along with an in-depth series on the foreclosure crisis, garnered a Pulitzer Finalist citation in 2010, along with numerous other national awards. The stories also led to a contract with Simon & Schuster and, for the last two years, Kirsten has been at work writing the book about this great catastrophe, the only one exploring WaMu’s momentous downfall.
Earlier in her career, Grind was a writer at The Seattle Times covering biotechnology, the Port of Seattle and Snohomish County. Previously she was a business reporter and later, editor, at the largest daily newspaper in Northern Colorado. She is originally from San Diego, where most of her family still lives. She went to journalism school at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) and has worked in the field since then. She is married to Steve Grind, who works in the outdoor gear industry.
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The Lost Bank
Grind's book, The Lost Bank, was released on June 12, 2012. It is published by Simon & Schuster. The book was named the best investigative book of 2012 by Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE).
Awards
Grind and her colleague Gregory Zuckerman won the Gerald Loeb Award in 2015 in the category of Breaking News for their series on PIMCO and the downfall of the "bond king" Bill Gross. Grind was cited as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting in 2010. She was also a finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award in 2010 for her coverage of the collapse of Washington Mutual, and has won numerous other national awards including from the Society of Professional Journalists and from SABEW (Society of American Business Editors and Writers).