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Use of DataJournalist and author Daniel Golden has been a contributor to three Pulitzer prize-winning articles, two as an editor and one as a reporter. As a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Golden won a 2004 Pulitzer for a series of articles on preferences for children and donors in college admissions, specifically relating to the enormous advantages enjoyed by more affluent white students, and the use of development cases (admissions based on potential donations). He expanded that series into a critically acclaimed national bestseller, “The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way Into Elite Colleges—and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates.” An updated edition was published in October 2019 with new reporting on the Operation Varsity Blues scandal.
Before joining ProPublica, he worked as managing editor for education and enterprise at Bloomberg News. There he edited a series about tax inversions — companies moving headquarters overseas to avoid taxes — that earned Bloomberg’s 2015 Pulitzer Prize.
At ProPublica his co-edited series, Latin American asylum-seekers caught between the U.S. government and the MS-13 gang, won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.
Henry Holt & Company published Golden’s 2017 book, “Spy Schools: How The CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America’s Universities.” Novelist John Le Carre praised it as “timely and shocking,” and former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano called it a “must-read.” Golden is also co-author, with ProPublica reporter Renee Dudley, of the 2022 book "The Ransomware Hunting Team," published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Amazon made it an "editors pick" for best nonfiction of the year, and the New York Times described it as "brilliant."
Golden spent 17 years as a staff reporter at the Boston Globe, including a stint on its Spotlight team, and served as senior editor for investigations at Conde Nast Portfolio. Among other honors, he has won three George Polk awards, three National Headliner awards, the Sigma Delta Chi award, the Gerald Loeb Award, the Overseas Press Club award, the New York Press Club Gold Keyboard award and two Education Writers Association Grand Prizes. He qualified as finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for public service for a series exposing recruiting abuses by for-profit colleges. A Harvard College graduate, he became a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford in 1998-99.
From 1978 to 1981, Golden reported for the Springfield Daily News in Massachusetts. In 1981, Golden first joined The Boston Globe as a regional reporter, being promoted to general assignment and investigative reporter in 1982. From 1986 to 1993, Golden wrote for the Globe's Sunday Focus section and weekly magazine. After a year as an investigative reporter, Golden became a Globe special projects reporter from 1994 until leaving in 1998.
In 1999, Golden joined the Wall Street Journal as a reporter. Beginning in 2000, Golden became the Journal's Boston deputy bureau chief. As Deputy Bureau Chief, he received his 2004 Pulitzer for Beat Reporting for the college admissions scandal series.
He earned the 2011 Gerald Loeb Award for Beat Reporting for his article "Education Inc." Golden is also a three time recipient of the George Polk Award.