Susan Antilla
Susan Antilla is a financial journalist and author. Career. Antilla's was a reporter for "The New York Times," and her articles have also appeared in Bloomberg, "The Nation", "The American Prospect", "New York", CNBC and CNN, among others. She was New York bureau chief of the Money Section of USA Today. More recently she engaged in journalism projects for Type Investigations. Antilla is the author of "Tales From the Boom-Boom Room: The Landmark Legal Battles That Exposed Wall Street’s Shocking Culture of Sexual Harassment" (2002), an exploration of sexual harassment on Wall Street in the  1990s, focusing especially upon Smith Barney. The New York Observer called the book “a work of compelling Wall Street anthropology.” Antilla has received awards from the Silurians press club and the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW). The Connecticut Press Club selected her "Boom Boom Room" book for “Best Book of the Year” in 2002, and as a finalist for column writing in 2012. The National Federation of Press Women 2003 winner in non-fiction book category for "Tales From The Boom-Boom Room." She received the “Excellence in Financial Journalism” award from the New York State Society  of Certified Public Accountants in 1996, and the “Women’s Leadership Award” from Manhattanville College. She has twice been a finalist for the prestigious Gerald Loeb awards for financial journalism, in 1997 and 1998. False-identity lawsuit. In 1994, Antilla wrote an article for the "New York Times" that repeated false rumors spread by short-sellers suggesting Presstek Inc. chief executive officer Robert Howard was really a convicted felon named Howard Finkelstein. In an editors' note the next day, the "Times" said that there was no credible evidence to support the rumor and expressed regret for printing the rumors. Howard  sued in 1997, accusing Antilla of defamation and casting him in a false light. The "Times" was not sued by Howard. The jury ruled in Howard's favor on the false light issue, but denied the defamation claim. In 2000 Antilla was ordered to pay damages of $480,000 to Howard. The court judgment was reversed in 2002. External links. Official website: susanantilla.com