Michael Hiltzik Biography
Michael Hiltzik is a Los Angeles Times columnist, reporter, and author who has written frequently for the paper. In 1974-1978, he worked as a journalist for the Buffalo Courier-Express in Buffalo, New York, and was the bureau head in 1976-1978.
Michael Hiltzik Age
He was born on 9 November 1952, in New York, New York, United States of America. Michael is 70 years old as of November 2023.
Michael Hiltzik Education
He attended the Colgate University (BA) and later joined Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (MS).
Michael Hiltzik Wife- Children
Michael is happily married to his wife Deborah Ibert and together they have two Children Andrew, David.
Michael Hiltzik Career
In 1974-1978, he worked as a journalist for the Buffalo Courier-Express in Buffalo, New York, and was the bureau head in 1976-1978. From 1979 to 1981, he worked as a staff writer for the Providence Journal-Bulletin in Providence, Rhode Island. From 1981 to 1983, he worked as a financial writer for The Los Angeles Times, and he was its financial correspondent in New York City from 1982 to 1988, Nairobi bureau head from 1988 to 1993, and Moscow correspondent from 1993 to 1994. From 1994 to 2006, he worked as a financial staff writer, editor, and columnist for the New York Times. He recently began writing a column regarding business and economic challenges on the West Coast of the United States.
Hiltzik and Times staff writer Chuck Philips shared the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for their series on music industry corruption and bribes. The year-long series exposed corruption in the music industry in three areas: the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences raised money for an ostensible charity that netted only pennies on the dollar; radio station “payola” for airplay of new recordings; and the proliferation of exploitive and poorly designed medical detox programs for celebrities. It was heartening, said Mark Saylor, then entertainment editor of the paper’s business department, because it recognized “strong reporting on the hometown industry… where The LA Times has long toiled under a shadow, the misperception that.
Michael Hiltzik Awards
In 1999, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting with Chuck Philips for a series of pieces about music industry corruption. He received two Gerald Loeb Awards for Outstanding Business and Financial Journalism. He received a Gerald Loeb Award Honorable Mention for Large Newspapers for “Takeovers” in 1985. He received the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel award, and the Overseas Press Club acknowledged his work on East African concerns. In 1996, he was a nominee for two Pulitzer Prizes for his reporting on California health care concerns and a big entertainment merger between Disney and ABC.
Michael Hiltzik Books
- A death in Kenya
- Dealers of lightning
- The plot against Social security
- Colossus
- The New Deal
- Big Science
- Iron Empires
Michael Hiltzik Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 3 million dollars.