Stanley Penn
Stanley William Penn (born January 12, 1928) is an American former journalist who spent much of his career at the Wall Street Journal. In 1967, he won a Pulitzer Prize for National Affairs Reporting.[1]
Early life and education
Penn was born in New York City on January 12, 1928,[2] as the son of Murray Penn and Lillian (Richman) Penn. He attended Brooklyn College and received a B.A. from the University of Missouri.[2] Penn studied journalism at the latter institution, but later said, "Journalism school was largely a waste of time...If I started out again, I'd major in English, history, or philosophy."[3]
Career
Penn joined the
He was praised in New York magazine as one of the few true investigative reporters in the U.S.[4]
Penn wrote exclusive articles about the financial dealings of Robert Vesco and Howard Hughes.[5] He established that Vesco had clandestine financial ties to President José Figueres Ferrer of Costa Rica, and that Robert Wagner, the former mayor of New York City, had clandestine financial ties to "a questionable offshore real estate fund."[4]
In 1964, he reported on ballot security.[6][7]
A statement by Penn in a 1966 article has been widely quoted in recent years as an example of faulty prognostication. "Despite the trend to compactness and lower costs," wrote Penn, "it is unlikely everyone will have his own computer any time soon."[8][9]
In 1969 and 1970, he reported on the Newark, New Jersey Mafia.[10][11]
Penn reported in 1971 on a lawsuit filed by Allen & Co., a New York investment bank, charging that Occidental Petroleum had cheated the bank "out of a share of oil concessions in Libya." He quoted from a sworn deposition in which a former Libyan oil minister stated that "he had been close friends with a European promoter hired by Occidental and had kept in touch with him during the bidding on these concessions, with the result that two of the best concessions, worth hundreds of millions dollars, had gone to Occidental." Penn also "found out that the brother-in-law of the former oil minister had received financial interests in a Liechtenstein construction firm controlled by a former representative of Occidental," who, at the minister's request, "had financed a $100,000 movie extolling Libya, for which the former oil minister wrote the script," with his brother-in-law receiving "90 percent of any profits the film might make." Penn's research "showed that if the oil minister received no benefits from the award of the concessions to Occidental, his brother-in-law might have."[4]
When President Nixon nominated
On May 21, 1981, he and Julie Salamon wrote a piece about recent cases of embezzlement in which Chase Manhattan and Wells Fargo had lost millions of dollars.[12]
Book
He wrote a book entitled Have I Got a Tip for You... And Other Tales of Dirty Secrets, Political Payoffs and Corporate Scams: A Guide to Investigative Reporting. It was published by Dow Jones in 1994.[2][13]
Honors and awards
In 1967, Penn and
References
- ^ ISBN 9781317403241. Retrieved November 21, 2016.
- ^ ISBN 9781573561112. Retrieved November 21, 2016.
- ^ Bagdikian, Ben H. (March 1977). "Woodstein U: Notes on the Mass Production and Questionable Education of Journalists". The Atlantic. Retrieved November 21, 2016.
- ^ a b c d Daley, Robert (November 12, 1973). "Super Reporter: The Missing American Hero Turns Out To Be...Clark Kent". New York Magazine. No. Vol. 6, Nr. 46. New York Media, LLC. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
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- ^ Perlstein, Rick (October 31, 2004). "It's, like, heavier than the Sixties, man!". Village Voice. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
- ^ Kromm, Chris (November 2, 2010). "Why the 'voter fraud' myth won't die". Facing South. Archived from the original on August 7, 2016. Retrieved November 23, 2016.
- ^ Moss, Laura (May 7, 2012). "What the future looked like way back when". MNN – Mother Nature Network. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
- ^ O'Connell, Liz (May 6, 2002). "Outside the margin". lubbockonline.com. Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
- ^ Penn, Stanley (February 20, 1969). "Jersey's Mobsters" (PDF). Wall Street Journal. Retrieved November 24, 2016.
- ^ Penn, Stanley (January 27, 1970). "Mafia Inroads: Business Shares Blame" (PDF). Wall Street Journal. Retrieved November 24, 2016.
- ^ Julie Salamon; Stanley Penn (May 21, 1981). "Inside Job". www.maebrussell.com. The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on March 18, 2016. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
- OCLC 32314397.