Pulitzer winner Johnston hired by Reuters

David Cay Johnston, a business journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize with the New York Times, has been hired by Reuters to write a regular column.

Johnston will write a tax column and pieces on other business subjects for Reuters beginning July 5.

Jolhnston, a 13-year veteran of The New York Times, garnered the Pulitzer in 2001 for his reporting on the tax system’s inner workings. Over the course of his career in investigative journalism, David broke stories exposing Enron for not paying taxes, the United Way for unauthorized spending, and Donald Trump for owing the government more money than he had.

More recently, Johnston has been writing a column for Tax Analysts, the nonprofit publisher of the weekly trade journal Tax Notes.

A resident of Rochester, N.Y., Johnston serves as a distinguished visiting lecturer at Syracuse University College of Law and Whitman School of Management. He has also written several best-selling books, including “Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You With the Bill).” His latest, “The Fine Print: How Big Companies Abuse ‘Plain English’ and Other Tricks to Rob You Blind,” will be published in January.

Johnston’s column for Reuters will feature on the new Thomson Reuters News & Insight site for tax and accounting professionals (www.tax.newsandinsight.com), and appear regularly on the Reuters wire and reuters.com.