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Who did Jake Bernstein (journalist) work for from 2008 to 2015?
Jake Bernstein ( journalist ) Jake Bernstein is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author . He previously worked with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists . During a 25-year career , he has reported on the civil war in Central America , industrial pollution in Texas , political corruption in Miami , system-crashing greed on Wall Street , and the secret world of offshore accounts and money laundering . He has written travel pieces , reviewed movies and books , and has appeared as a radio and TV journalist . His 2017 book , Secrecy World : Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite , takes an in-depth look at the evolution of offshore financial assets , as seen through the Panama Papers , and the journalists and investigators who tried to break through its secrecy . The book was made into a feature film titled The Laundromat , directed by Steven Soderbergh . Bernstein received an executive producer credit on the film . Career . Bernstein speaks Spanish and began his journalism career in Latin America as a freelancer . After a brief stint at The Pasadena Citizen , Bernstein joined Miami New Times as a staff writer and reporter ( 1997-2002 ) , where he covered political corruption and media and the environment with stories including the fight over Elián González , Everglades restoration and the 2000 presidential recount . The Texas Observer . In mid-2002 , Bernstein joined The Texas Observer as a reporter and editor , and became executive editor in 2004 , serving through 2008 . During his tenure at the Observer , Bernstein covered stories on government surveillance , Tom DeLay’s money laundering legislative takeover and the demographic shift in Texas . Under his leadership , Utne Reader named The Texas Observer , Best Political Magazine of 2005 . ProPublica . Bernstein joined ProPublica in 2008 , shortly after its founding , where he worked as a business reporter . In 2011 , he and a colleague won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for coverage of Wall Street in the lead up to the financial crisis . In 2014 , Bernstein broke the story of the secret tapes of Carmen Segarra , a whistleblower bank examiner with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York . The story prompted a U.S . Senate hearing . Panama Papers . Bernstein worked as senior reporter as part of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on the Panama Papers . In addition to sharing a byline on the main story , Bernstein also authored the consortiums piece on the Russian findings in All Putins Men : Secret Records Reveal Money Network Tied to Russian Leader and the story on The Art of Secrecy in the offshore world . The project won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting and was a Pulitzer finalist for International Reporting . Bernstein signed with United Talent Agency ( UTA ) to sell the book for film and television . Bibliography . - VICE : Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency , by Lou Dubose and Jake Bernstein . Random House , 2006 . - Secrecy World : Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite , by Jake Bernstein . Macmillan Audio , 2017 . External links . - Jake Bernsteins Website