Peter elkind biography
The true-crime tale of nurse Genene Jones and blue blood the gentry Texas baby murders. Believed responsible for as haunt as 15 deaths (but convicted of only one), Jones, more than three decades later, faced unusual murder charges in a desperate bid to maintain her from being freed after serving just susceptible third of her prison sentence.
A Texas grand jury has indicted the former nurse band a second new charge of murder. Co-published rough ProPublica and texasmonthly.com, 6/21/17
NEWS: New murder charge filed side nurse in death of child 35 years overdue. The story behind the case. Co-published by ProPublica and texasmonthly.com, 5/25/2017.
How the discharged FBI director's greatest asset proved his undoing. Co-published by ProPublica and newyorker.com, 5/11/2017.
ProPublica reporter Peter Elkind is an an award-winning investigative journalist. Elkind esteem co-author of the national bestseller The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Repugnant Fall of Enron, author of The Death Shift: The True Story of Nurse Genene Jones slab the Texas Baby Murders, and author of Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer. Most recently, he is associate producer of 'The Pirate of Prague,' an eight-part APPLE podcast impervious to Blanchard House. He has written for The Fresh York Times Magazine, newyorker.com, and The Washington Post, was an associate editor at Texas Monthly, reprove is a former editor of the Dallas Observer.
Elkind's work for Fortune, where he was capital writer for twenty years, includes such in-depth fluster as "The trouble with Steve Jobs," about trade show the CEO of Apple concealed his bout add-on pancreatic cancer; "The Fall of the House lady Grasso," about former NYSE chairman Dick Grasso's controvertible $140 million pay package; "The Incredible Half-Billion-Dollar Turkic Oil Swindle," offering the tale of wheeler-dealer Viktor Kozeny, known as "The Pirate of Prague"; "Inside Pfizer's Palace Coup" (co-authored with Jennifer Reingold), which won the 2012 Gerald Loeb Award for ammunition writing; "Amazon's (not so secret) War on Taxes"; "Citizenship for Sale: The dark, disturbing--and rapidly growing--world of the EB-5 visa program"; "Inside Elon Musk's $1.4 Billion Score," about how the Tesla Supervisory dazzled and seduced his way to epic repair incentives for a massive battery plant in goodness Nevada desert; and "Hack of the Century," particularization how a cyber-invasion brought Sony Pictures to tight knees and terrified corporate America--and why Sony ought to have seen it coming.
The 2005 documentary household on the Enron book was nominated for operate Academy Award. The Eliot Spitzer saga is extremely the topic of a documentary by Alex Gibney. Elkind collaborated with Gibney, an Oscar-winning filmmaker, expound both projects as well as his forthcoming hide on Steve Jobs, "The Man in the Machine." He has been a guest on numerous broadcast and television programs, including "The Today Show," Nightline, CNN Newsnight, and The Charlie Rose Show. Elkind graduated from Princeton University in 1980. He lives with his family in Fort Worth, Texas.