Rick Newman

Chief Business Correspondent

Expertise: Globalization | Corporate downsizing | Offshoring | U.S. automobile industry | General Motors, Ford, Chrysler | Cars and SUVs | Hybrids | Gas prices | Alternative energy| Airlines | Defense industry

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Background:Rick Newman, who has written for U.S. News for more than 15 years, covers major corporate trends and globalization from the magazine’s New York bureau. He is the magazine’s car reviewer and has traveled to China for a number of special reports on the country’s mushrooming business sector. Newman frequently writes about bellwether firms such as General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Wal-Mart, The Carlyle Group, and the nation’s major airlines. He has also played a key role in the expansion of the magazine’s online business coverage at www.usnews.com.

From 1995 through 2001, Newman was U.S. News’s chief Pentagon correspondent, covering wars in Bosnia and Kosovo and reporting from military bases, ships, airplanes, and submarines around the world. He also helped anchor the magazine’s 9/11 coverage and the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In addition to his work for U.S. News, Newman has penned satire for the Washington Post and the New York Times. Newman received a bachelor’s in English and economics from Boston College in 1988 and started at U.S. News as a fact checker shortly thereafter.

Honors: Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense | Society of Professional Journalists Award for Public Service | National Press Club Consumer Journalism Award | Finalist, National Magazine Award | Finalist, Livingston Award for Young Journalists

Publications: Co-authored with Don Shepperd Bury Us Upside Down: The Misty Pilots and the Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail (Presidio Press, 2006) | Co-authored with Patrick Creed Firefight: Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9-11 (Ballantine, expected publication date: 2008)

Media appearances: Newman’s national television appearances include CBS’s The Early Show and Up to the Minute, CNN’s Headline News, Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends, and FOX Business Network. In addition, he has been interviewed on numerous national and major market radio programs.

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