We are pleased to welcome Kirsten Grind to The New York Times. She will begin working as a technology investigative reporter in San Francisco later this month.
Kirsten joins us from the Wall Street Journal, where she was a corporate reporter. During her 12 years at the Journal, Kirsten regularly exposed questionable conduct and wrongdoing, raising questions about some of the most powerful players in technology and finance. She has reported and written about Elon Musk's drug use and Twitter's transformation into explains the downfall of former bond magnate Bill Gross, and more.
Nurturing sources of information in the close-knit technology and financial industries can be difficult, but Kirsten is known for her tenacity and steadfastness. Jessica Silver Greenberg, an investigative business reporter who worked with Kirsten at the Journal, said Kirsten was always reporting.
“When she was about 10 months pregnant, I called her, expecting her to be sitting on the couch eating ice cream,” Jessica recalls. “Instead, she was in the Pimco parking lot chasing down her employees to expose the bond manager's downfall.”
A native of San Diego, Kirsten graduated from the University of California in San Luis Obispo, California, where she was editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, Mustang Daily. He previously worked for the Journal, Pueblo, Colorado, the Chieftain, Fort Collins, the Coloradoan, Seattle's Puget Sound, Business, the Journal, Seattle, the Times, and other local newspapers. I was there.
She was a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist and has won more than a dozen national awards for her work, including the Gerald Loeb Award. She wrote the book “The Lost Bank,” about the collapse of Washington Mutual during the 2008 financial crisis, and co-authored “Happy at Any Cost: The Revolutionary Vision and Fatal Quest of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh.” .
Please welcome her to the Times.
— Ellen and Pui Wing
