Jesse Eisinger is a senior reporter and editor at ProPublica. He is the author of the “The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives.”
In April 2011, he and a colleague won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series of stories on questionable Wall Street practices that helped make the financial crisis the worst since the Great Depression. He won the 2015 Gerald Loeb Award for commentary. He has also twice been a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.
He was a regular columnist for The New York Times’s Dealbook section. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The NewYorker.com, The Washington Post, The Baffler, The American Prospect and on NPR and This American Life. Before joining ProPublica, he was the Wall Street Editor of Conde Nast Portfolio and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, covering markets and finance.
He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the journalist Sarah Ellison, and their daughters.
Jesse Eisinger appears in the following:
How the Wealthiest Americans Play the Tax Game
Monday, June 14, 2021
An Opportunity for the Rich
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Romanian Prime Minister Is Staying at Trump’s D.C. Hotel
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Trump’s Inauguration Paid Trump’s Company — With Ivanka in the Middle
Friday, December 14, 2018
The Many Red Flags of Trump’s Partners in India
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
How Ivanka Trump And Donald Trump, Jr., Avoided a Criminal Indictment
Wednesday, October 04, 2017
Summer Friday: Chief Brown's Story, Naomi Klein Resisting Trump, Experimenting With Love, Arundhati Roy's New Novel, Justice Department Scaredy-Cats
Friday, August 18, 2017
Justice Department Scaredy-Cats
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
What to Expect From Trump’s Economic Team
Friday, January 20, 2017
Whose Interests Will Trump’s Administration Represent?
Friday, December 02, 2016
Feds Pledge to Get Tougher On White-Collar Crime
Friday, September 11, 2015
Bankers' Misbehavior Might be a Matter of Culture
Friday, April 24, 2015
Why One Banker Went to Jail for the Financial Crisis
Friday, May 02, 2014
What's Inside America's Banks
Thursday, January 03, 2013
More than four years after the 2008 financial crisis, public trust in banks is as low as ever. Sophisticated investors describe big banks as “black boxes” that may still be concealing enormous risks— the sort that could again take down the economy. Jesse Eisinger's investigation, written with Frank Partnoy, is called “What’s Inside America’s Banks” and appears in the January/February issue of The Atlantic.
Backstory: The Early Days of Bain Capital
Thursday, September 13, 2012
ProPublica’s Jesse Eisinger looks at the early days of Bain Capital, the private equity firm that Mitt Romney ran in the early 1990s. The firm’s work in turning around Staples is well known, but Bain was also sued several times for buying companies and selling them for a profit, without paying a finder’s fee.
Backstory: The Jobs Bill
Thursday, March 15, 2012
On today’s Backstory, ProPublica’s Jesse Eisinger talks about what’s inside a jobs bill-- The Jump-Start Our Business Act --that just passed in the House of Representatives. We’ll also look at how the Federal Reserve has dealt with the country’s largest financial firms.
The Wall Street Money Machine
Monday, April 25, 2011
ProPublica’s Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein, who were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for “The Wall Street Money Machine,” talk about the series, which examined how some hedge funds and banks worsened the financial crisis while making a hefty profit for themselves. It’s ProPublica’s second Pulitzer in only its third year of publishing investigations, and it’s the first Pulitzer to be awarded to a group of stories that were never published in print.