Alison Fitzgerald is an award-winning economics, finance and investigative reporter who joined the Center for Public Integrity in April 2013 to help lead its financial and business reporting. Her first project at the Center, “After the Meltdown,” was honored with the 2014 George Polk Award for business reporting and the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award. She is now managing editor overseeing all the Center’s work on federal and state politics, finance and broadband. Prior to joining the Center, Alison spent more than a decade at Bloomberg News, where she wrote about the convergence of politics, government and economics. She was part of the International Consortium of Investigative Jouranlists team that won the 2015 George Polk Award, and her coverage of the 2008 financial crisis and ensuing government bailout won her several awards, including the 2009 George Polk Award. Her work on the international food price crisis in 2008 won her the Overseas Press Club’s Malcolm Forbes Award. With Stanley Reed, Alison wrote “In Too Deep: BP and the Drilling Race That Took It Down,” published in 2011 by John Wiley & Sons.