USA TODAY writers and researchers are some of the most educated and experienced in the country with unprecedented access to top business, religious and political leaders.
David Lynch, USA TODAY’s global business writer, earned his BA with honors from Wesleyan University and his MA in International Relations from Yale. He was awarded the Nieman Fellowship from Harvard in 2002, was an Oxford Union debate member at Oxford in 1999 and was the business-writer-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin in 1995. As USA TODAY’s first Chief of European Correspondents, he shaped international coverage and reported from 35 different countries, covering extensively the 1999 war in Kosovo, the Northern Ireland peace process and European economic developments. As the founding Beijing Bureau Chief, he oversaw the coverage of all political, economic and social developments in the People’s Republic of China. In his current role as USA TODAY’s global business writer, Lynch writes about international economic issues as they impact the United States.
Joan Biskupic, USA TODAY’s Supreme Court reporter, earned her undergrad at Marquette and her law degree at Georgetown. She is a regular panelist on PBS’s Washington Week and is the author of several legal reference books, including Congressional Quarterly’s two-volume encyclopedia on the Supreme Court (3rd Ed., 1997, with co-author Elder Witt). She is also author of Sandra Day O’Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice (HarperCollins, 2005), and she is currently researching a book on Justice Antonin Scalia.
Susan Page, USA TODAY’s Washington Bureau Chief, earned her BA at Northwestern and
her MA from Columbia, where she was a Pulitzer Fellow. She has been covering American
politics and the presidency through seven national elections and four presidential administrations.
She is a weekly panelist on PBS’s Eye on Washington, often guest-hosts NPR’s The Diane Rehm Show, and regularly appears on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and others. Her writing has won many national awards, including the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency, the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for Deadline Reporting on the Presidency and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Washington Correspondence (shared).
Greg Farrell, one of USA TODAY’s financial sector investigative reporters, earned his BA from Harvard and his MBA from Columbia and is the author of Corporate Crooks (Prometheus, 2006), which explicates the root causes of the accounting frauds at Enron, WorldCom and other companies. He is the past winner of the American Business Press’ Jesse Neal Award for investigative reporting and a recipient of the Knight-Bagehot fellowship for business journalism.