David Enrich
| David Jules Enrich | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 3, 1979 Lexington |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Years active | 2000 to present |
David Jules Enrich (born July 3, 1979) is an award-winning reporter and editor at the Wall Street Journal.
He is currently financial-enterprise editor at the Journal based in New York and was previously the paper's European Banking Editor.
His book, The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History, will be published in March 2017.
Enrich joined the Journal in December 2007 in New York as a reporter writing about the U.S. banking industry, with a particular focus on Citigroup. Prior to joining the Journal, he was a reporter with Dow Jones Newswires for several years. Before that he was a reporter for States News Service in Washington, D.C.
Enrich has received numerous journalism awards, including in 2012 an Overseas Press Club award for coverage of the European financial crisis, a George Polk Award for coverage of insider trading, two SABEW awards and a Loeb Award for feature writing for “The Unraveling of Tom Hayes.” Enrich was also part of teams of Journal reporters who were finalists for Pulitzer Prizes in 2009 and 2011.
In 2013, Enrich became the news. On October 17 of that year, a British judge ordered David and the Wall Street Journal to comply with a request by the U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office prohibiting the newspaper from publishing names of individuals in the government's ongoing investigation into alleged manipulation of the London interbank offered rate. David was threatened with jail if he disobeyed.
The situation was covered in the press as an example of the restrictions the media face in the U.K. from courts that impose reporting restrictions to prevent journalists from reporting details that prosecutors believe could jeopardize an investigation or case and by celebrities keen to cover up indiscretions.
Dow Jones & Co., publisher of the Journal, described the injunction as "serious affront to press freedom."
On October 21, an English judge said he wouldn't renew the court order saying there was "no basis" for the reporting restrictions.
References
Reeher, Grant; Davis, Steve; Elin, Larry (2002). Click on Democracy: The Internet's Power to Change Political Apathy Into Civic Action. Boulder, Colo: Westview Press. pp. 192–200. ISBN 0-8133-4005-5.