Loeb Award for financial journalism, and was a finalist for Syracuse University’s Mirror Award for Journalism.
In 2014, Sirota won Ithaca College’s Izzy Award for Journalism, was a finalist for UCLA’s Gerald R. He also won 2nd place for political/government reporting in the LA Press Club’s annual awards.
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In 2018, he won “Top of the Rockies” awards for environmental and political reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists. Sirota is a two-time winner of the Best In Business Award award from the Society for American Business Editors and Writers. In 2016, Sirota began working with First Look Media to help journalists develop their work into television shows, films and documentary series. Sirota also served as an investigative journalist for CNN’s Death Row Stories, which was produced by Robert Redford and Academy Award winning director Alex Gibney. In both cases, newspapers credited Sirota’s work for breaking the stories.Īlong with his work at Capital & Main and IBT/Newsweek, Sirota has also written for The New York Times Magazine, Politico Magazine, Harper’s, Wired, Vice, The Nation and. Sirota’s reporting for International Business Times also led San Francisco officials to delay a proposed $3 billion investment in hedge funds.
That same year, Sirota’s investigative reporting about pensions for PandoDaily and then for the International Business Times led the New Jersey state government to open a formal pay to play investigation and to divest state holdings in a venture capital firm. In response, PBS’s ombudsman called Sirota’s journalism “important,” and credited him for “shining a light on what seems (to) be ethical compromises in funding arrangements and lack of real transparency for viewers.” The ombudsman added that “nobody really knew (about the problem) until Sirota wrote about it.”
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In 2014, Sirota’s investigative series for PandoDaily about public broadcasting compelled a PBS flagship station to return a $3.5 million contribution from a hedge fund billionaire. The New York Times has credited his Wall Street reporting for showing “that secrecy can hide high fees, low returns, excess risk and the identity of politically connected dealmakers.” He also created Audible’s financial crisis podcast series MELTDOWN, which was named one of the best podcasts of the year by The Atlantic and Uproxx.īefore launching his own journalism project, Sirota was an investigative reporter for Capital & Main and the Senior Editor for Investigations at IBT/Newsweek. He served as Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign speechwriter in 2020 ( click here to read the New York Times profile of his campaign work). Sirota is the founder and editor of The Lever, an editor at large at Jacobin Magazine and a columnist at The Guardian. McKay and Sirota also won the Writers Guild of America’s 2022 award for best original screenplay. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his work helping Adam McKay create the story for the blockbuster film DON’T LOOK UP, which became one of the most widely viewed movies in Netflix’s history. DAVID SIROTA is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author living in Denver, Colorado.
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