Leah McGrath Goodman

Leah McGrath Goodman is an American author and freelance journalist who has worked in New York City and London. She began her career as a special writer and editor for ''The Wall Street Journal'', Dow Jones Newswires, and ''Barron's'', and was recruited from university by the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund. She has contributed to publications and agencies such as ''Fortune'', ''The Financial Times'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''Condé Nast Portfolio'', the Associated Press, ''Forbes'' and ''The Guardian''.

In 2010 McGrath Goodman was the recipient of a Scripps Howard Foundation fellowship in environmental journalism and a visiting professorship at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her first book ''The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked the World's Oil Market'', about the global oil trading market, was published in 2011. In 2014, a ''Newsweek'' cover story where she allegedly uncovered the identity of bitcoin's inventor attracted widespread controversy. In 2016, McGrath Goodman placed as a finalist for the National Magazine Award for her coverage of America's widening wealth gap as part of a package of stories for ''Newsweek''. In 2017, a second Newsweek cover story she wrote about the 9-11 attacks leading Ground Zero to become a deadly cancer cluster was also nominated for a National Magazine Award. Provided by Wikipedia