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| Jonathan Friedland |
| VP Editorial |
Jonathan Friedland has spent over twenty years in journalism as a reporter, foreign correspondent and editor. Prior to joining Meximerica, he was the Los Angeles bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal. Under his leadership, reporters in the bureau won Gerald Loeb, Scripps-Howard and Society of American Business Editors and Writers awards in 2001 for stories on Enron's collapse, and a 2000 Gerald Loeb award for coverage of the California energy crisis. Friedland was also part of the 2001 team that won a Pulitzer Prize in the spot news reporting category for coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Friedland began his journalism career as a reporter and then bureau chief for the Inter Press Service in Washington, D.C., from 1982 to 1987 and was a staff writer for the Institutional Investor from 1987 to 1988. He has also written articles that have appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, the Economist, the International Herald Tribune, the Manchester Guardian, the New York Times and the Sydney Morning Herald.
In 1988, Friedland joined Dow Jones & Company as a finance correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong and became Tokyo correspondent for the Review in 1992. In November 1994, he joined the Wall Street Journal in New York. In March 1995, he opened the paper's Buenos Aires bureau and then became bureau chief in Mexico in February 1998. In 2000, he was put in charge of the Journal’s 18-reporter Los Angeles bureau.
While in Latin America, Friedland was a member of a team of Journal reporters that was honored as a 1996 Pulitzer Prize finalist in the international reporting category for coverage of the Mexican peso and its effect on the rest of the region and on world economies and markets. Also in 1996, he was a member of a Journal team that won the Inter American Press Association's Tom Wallace Award for articles on the national economies of Latin American countries. In 1997, he was a member of a Journal team awarded the IAPA's Globe and Mail Award for in-depth reporting for their coverage of political corruption and the drug-running crisis in Latin America.
A California native, Friedland received a bachelor's degree from Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., and a master's degree in economics from the London School of Economics. |
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