JAMES SUROWIECKI
Name: James MIchael Surowiecki
Born: 1967
James Michael Surowiecki (b. 1967) is an American journalist. He
is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes a regular column on
business and finance called "The Financial Page".
Surowiecki's writing has appeared in a wide range of publications, including The
New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Artforum, Wired, and
Slate.
Before joining The New Yorker, he wrote The Bottom Line column for New York
magazine and was a contributing editor at Fortune. In Alexandria, Virginia he
was editor-in-chief of Rogue magazine from 1995-96 and a staff writer for Motley
Fool. He was a finance columnist for Slate from 1997-2000.
In 2002, Surowiecki edited an anthology, Best Business Crime Writing of the Year,
a collection of articles from different business news sources that chronicle the
fall from grace of various CEOs. In 2004, he published The Wisdom of Crowds, in
which he argued that small groups exhibit more intelligence than isolated
individuals and that collective intelligence shapes business, economies,
societies and nations.
He was born in Meriden, Connecticut and spent several childhood years in
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico where he received a junior high school education from
Southwestern Educational Society (SESO). On May 5, 1979, he won the Scripps-Howard
Regional Puerto Rico Spelling Bee championship. He is a 1984 graduate of Choate
Rosemary Hall and a 1988 alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar. Surowiecki pursued PhD studies in
American History on a Mellon Fellowship at Yale University before becoming a
financial journalist. He lives in Brooklyn, New York and is married to Slate
culture editor Meghan O'Rourke.
Name: James MIchael Surowiecki
Born: 1967
James Michael Surowiecki (b. 1967) is an American journalist. He
is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes a regular column on
business and finance called "The Financial Page".
Surowiecki's writing has appeared in a wide range of publications, including The
New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Artforum, Wired, and
Slate.
Before joining The New Yorker, he wrote The Bottom Line column for New York
magazine and was a contributing editor at Fortune. In Alexandria, Virginia he
was editor-in-chief of Rogue magazine from 1995-96 and a staff writer for Motley
Fool. He was a finance columnist for Slate from 1997-2000.
In 2002, Surowiecki edited an anthology, Best Business Crime Writing of the Year,
a collection of articles from different business news sources that chronicle the
fall from grace of various CEOs. In 2004, he published The Wisdom of Crowds, in
which he argued that small groups exhibit more intelligence than isolated
individuals and that collective intelligence shapes business, economies,
societies and nations.
He was born in Meriden, Connecticut and spent several childhood years in
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico where he received a junior high school education from
Southwestern Educational Society (SESO). On May 5, 1979, he won the Scripps-Howard
Regional Puerto Rico Spelling Bee championship. He is a 1984 graduate of Choate
Rosemary Hall and a 1988 alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar. Surowiecki pursued PhD studies in
American History on a Mellon Fellowship at Yale University before becoming a
financial journalist. He lives in Brooklyn, New York and is married to Slate
culture editor Meghan O'Rourke.