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Nicholas Stein is an award-winning investigative reporter. His articles for Fortune magazine, where he served as a staff writer from 1999 to 2005, ranged from Russian organized insurance fraud ("Inside Operation Boris") to the rise of indentured servitude in Asian factories ("No Way Out") to the FDA's war on raw milk cheese ("Would You Like Cheese with That"). He has also written for Men's Vogue, and the Columbia Journalism Review.

Stein is the recipient of numerous journalism awards. In 2004, the World Leadership Forum in London awarded him two Business Journalist of the Year awards, one for "Boris" and another for "Crisis in a Coffee Cup," a detailed examination of the global coffee crisis and its impact on farmers in Latin America and Vietnam. In 2002, he was awarded his first Business Journalist of the Year award for " The De Beers Story: A New Cut on an Old Monopoly", a profile of the diamond industry giant. Stein's investigative feature on the decline and fall of Chiquita Brands was anthologized in the 2003 edition of the Best Business Stories of the Year.

As the deputy director of Project Klebnikov, the global media alliance dedicated to investigating the murder of Forbes editor Paul Klebnikov, Stein is working with journalists and media outlets around the world to shed light on Klebnikov's untimely death. Stein has taught magazine writing at New York University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, and holds a BA in English from McGill University and a masters in journalism from Columbia.



 
 
   
 
The American Who Knew to Much
Forbes Russia editor Paul Klebnikov was murdered on a Moscow street. The Kremlin has two suspects on trial...
Inside Operation Boris
It looked like a routine traffic accident on a wet Long Island highway. But it led investigators to a gigantic fraud...
Chiquita Banana: Yes, We Have No Profits
The rise and fall of Chiquita Banana: How a great American brand lost its way.
The De Beers Story
The company that has ruled diamonds for a century wants to polish its image... and dominate as never before.