Tom Wright
Investigative journalist and author
Tom Wright is a Pulitzer finalist journalist who coauthored Billion Dollar Whale, a book about a huge fraud. He also cofounded the journalism studio Project Brazen.
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About Tom Wright
Tom Wright is a journalist who has spent two decades reporting on Asia. He was one of the earliest journalists to reach the site of the Osama bin Laden raid carried out by Navy SEALs. In 2013 he led the Wall Street Journal's coverage of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, which killed more than 1,000 people, and that work won the paper a Sigma Delta Chi award. He is a Pulitzer finalist and a Loeb winner, and the Society of Publishers in Asia named him Journalist of the Year in 2016. In 2020 Stanford University gave him its Shorenstein award for services to journalism in Asia. In 2018 Wright coauthored Billion Dollar Whale, a New York Times bestseller. He cofounded Project Brazen, a content studio focused on journalism. He also created and hosts the podcast Fat Leonard, which runs to nine episodes and tells the story of a man who corrupted the US Navy.