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Pulitzer winner Eisinger to answer questions today on financial reporting

ProPublica reporter Jesse Eisinger, who won a 2011 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on Wall Street, will be answering reader questions on Reddit from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday.

Eisinger teamed with Jake Bernstein on a series of stories about how Wall Street practices worsened the financial crisis. More recently, Eisinger has revealed how the Federal Reserve allowed banks to pay out $33 billion to shareholders despite warnings from the FDIC, and how Freddie Mac placed bets that would pay off if American homeowners failed to refinance while at the same time making it harder for them to do so. He also writes a bi-weekly financial column co-published with New York Times’ DealBook.

Before joining ProPublica, Eisinger covered the financial industry for Condé Nast Portfolio and the Wall Street Journal.

Eisinger won’t be able to answer all questions, but any topics are fair game: Wall Street practices, investigative journalism, or even his beloved Green Bay Packers. To follow the chat, just head to Reddit at 3 p.m., Wednesday. If you want to submit a question, click “register” in the upper-right hand corner of Reddit’s site. You won’t need to give your email address.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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