James Bandler
Editor at Large
FORTUNE

James Bandler is Editor at Large at FORTUNE. Bandler was previously a reporter at The Wall Street Journal which he joined in September 1999 as a health care and education writer for its New England regional edition and later covered media companies from New York. His work includes features on accounting fraud at Xerox Corp., executive theft at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and price-fixing in the chemical shipping industry. He broke the story on Harvard Business Review involving the publication's former top editor and former General Electric CEO Jack Welch.

   

Mr. Bandler began his journalism career as a Sunday Writer for the Rutland Herald and Barre Montpelier Times Argus in Vermont. He later worked for the Boston Globe. Most recently, Mr. Bandler was part of the Wall Street Journal team that received the 2007 Pulitzer Gold Medal for Public Service for the comprehensive probe into backdated stock options. He is also the recipient of several other honors for this series including: the Gerald Loeb Award, the George Polk Award for business reporting, The National Headliner Award for business news coverage, Gilbert and Ursula Farfel Prize for Investigative Journalism, and the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.

Mr. Bandler graduated with honors from Brown University in 1989 where he studied media and modern culture. Born in New York, Mr. Bandler resides in Newton, Mass., with his wife and two children.