Scot J. Paltrow

Who is Scot J. Paltrow?

Scot J. Paltrow is an American journalist. A financial journalist, Paltrow currently works for Reuters.

Paltrow is from New York. He received his bachelor's degree from the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences and a master's degree from the London School of Economics.

Paltrow's journalism career began in 1977 when he joined the Memphis Commercial Appeal as a reporter. The following year, he joined the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, where his investigative series on corruption in Industry, California, "The City of Insiders," resulted in federal and state criminal probes and several convictions.

In 1981, Paltrow moved to the Washington Star, where he covered federal courts. After the Star shut down the same year, Paltrow moved to the Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter in the Los Angeles bureau. In 1985, Paltrow became a European correspondent for the Journal based in Brussels. In April 1988, Paltrow returned to the United States as New York financial bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times. During this period he did numerous investigative stories on Wall Street investment banks, markets and the insurance industry." While at the Times, Paltrow won a 1993 George Polk Award for Financial Reporting. Paltrow returned to the Wall Street Journal in May 1997 and served as senior special writer based in New York and writes for the paper's Washington bureau.