Gretchen Morgenson, the Ratner visitor in Spring 2014, is a columnist at The New York Times, as well as assistant business and financial editor. In 2002, Morgenson won the Pulitzer Prize for her Wall Street coverage.

Morgenson, who has covered the world financial markets for The Times since May 1998, has twice won the Gerald Loeb Award for business journalism.

Morgenson’s career has spanned financial reporting and editing roles at Money magazine, where she was a staff writer from 1984 to 1986; Forbes, where she was an investigative business writer and editor from 1986 to 1993, and Worth magazine, where she was executive editor from 1993 to 1995.

Morgenson’s books include Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon, with Joshua Rosner in 2011.

The Ratner Distinguished Visiting Business Journalist Program brings a distinguished visitor each semester to Baruch College’s Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions.

Created with a gift from Forest City Ratner Companies and its founder and executive chairman Bruce Ratner, the program enables journalists to spend a week in residence, speaking in classes, mentoring students and meeting with the staff of Dollars & Sense, the department’s award-winning online magazine.

Forest City Ratner‘s major New York institutions include The New York Times Building and the Barclays Center.