Dan Ackman

Who is Dan Ackman?

Dan Ackman is an American journalist and civil rights lawyer, who graduated from Wesleyan University and Columbia Law School. He has written on law, policy, business, and sports for such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, New York Daily News, Newsday, New York Post, The American Lawyer, The New York Observer, Slate, Inc., Pink Magazine, Salon and Forbes. He has also been a columnist for Forbes.com, BreakingViews and the Wall Street Journal's Law Page. At Forbes.com, writing about everything from the Enron scandal to the pornography industry, he was named a finalist for the Online Journalism Award. He has appeared as a commentator on CNN, NPR, PBS, CNBC, CBS, the BBC, C-SPAN, Fox News, ESPN Radio and Fox Business.

Some of his notable television appearances include:

CNBC on Dennis Kozlowski's Appeal

NPR on the Frank Quattrone trial

CNN on Martha Stewart

The James Goodale Show on the Rather Report

Fox News/The O'Reilly Factor

NPR on the Alfred Taubman price-fixing prosecution

CNN on the Dennis Kozlowski trial

In addition to writing about law and business, Ackman has written extensively about off-beat sporting events such as ping pong, outrigger canoe racing, Ivy League wrestling, the Army Best Ranger competition, squash, the world cyber-games World Cyber Games, and white collar boxing Gleason's gym.