Tim helped oversee a team of Times reporters who were finalists for a Pulitzer Prize in Public Service in 2009 for their coverage of the financial crisis. The Times series that emerged from that work, "The Reckoning," was also a winner of a 2009 Loeb Award for Distinguished Business Journalism.

You can follow Tim on Twitter and on Facebook. His professional network is available on LinkedIn.

Prior to becoming Sunday Business editor in 2006, Tim was a staff writer for the Times. Among the topics and people he has written about for the paper are Wall Street, Russia, Manhattan's art world, cybercrimes and identity theft, Warren Buffett, geopolitics, digital media, international finance, Hollywood, terrorism and terrorist financing, Donald Trump, money laundering, gambling, and white-collar fraud.

Before returning to the Times in 2003, Tim was the senior feature writer at Talk, a magazine founded by former New Yorker editor Tina Brown. Tim was with Talk from 2000 until it ceased publishing in 2002. Before joining Talk, Tim was a reporter with the Times and, prior to that, The Wall Street Journal.

Tim was a member of a team of Times reporters who won a Loeb Award for Distinguished Business Journalism in 1998 for coverage of the near meltdown of the Long Term Capital Management hedge fund.

Tim has a B.A. cum laude in literature from Georgetown University, an M.A. in U.S. History from Columbia University, an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, and an MBA from Columbia University. He has lived and worked in Europe, South America and Asia.

Tim is also the author of a biography of Donald Trump, "TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald," which Warner Books published in 2005. His previous non-fiction book, "Bad Bet: The Inside Story of the Glamour, Glitz, and Danger of America's Gambling Industry," was published in 1998.

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