BIOGRAPHY

SOURCE: Staff Biographies, FORTUNE Magazine website, October 2004



Senior writer Richard Behar joined FORTUNE in 1995.** He is best known for his groundbreaking investigative reporting, and has been called "one of the most dogged of our watchdogs" by syndicated columnist Jack Anderson.

Behar's work for Fortune, Time Magazine, and CNN has garnered him 20 top journalism awards, including a National Magazine Award, the George Polk award, the Worth Bingham Prize, and the Jack Anderson Award (twice) for "Top Investigative Reporter of the Year." In 2001, he was named "Business Journalist of the Year" in London, and was included on TJFR's list of the top 100 business journalists of the 20th century.

Recent stories include "Rummy's North Korea Connection," about the Defense Secretary's prior involvement in a firm that was contracted to provide nuclear plants to that country, and "FBI Phoenix Memo Unmasked," an exclusive look at the controversial document. Behar's "The Karachi Connection" exposed a logistical leader of the 9-11 attacks, and his "Kidnapped Nation," about post-Sept. 11 economic life in Pakistan, won a 2003 Overseas Press Club award and the Daniel Pearl award (South Asian Journalists Association).

From 1989 to 1995, Behar was a reporter at TIME, where he wrote a cover story on one of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers, and exposed IRS misconduct that sparked a Congressional hearing. His 1991 cover story on Scientology won a Gerald Loeb award and a Conscience-in-Media award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors "for singular commitment to the highest principles of journalism at notable personal cost."

Prior to working at TIME, Behar was a writer at Forbes and a stringer for The New York Times. He graduated from New York University in 1982, and today serves on the board of advisors of NYU's business journalism masters program.

** Behar worked at Fortune Magazine from 1995-2004