TIMOTHY L. O’BRIEN is the executive editor at the Huffington Post, where he oversees all of the site’s original reporting efforts. Tim edited a ten-part series about severely wounded war veterans, “Beyond the Battlefield,” for which the Huffington Post and its senior military correspondent, David Wood, received a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2012
Prior to joining the Huffington Post, in early 2011, Tim was an editor at The New York Times, where he oversaw the Sunday Business section. Tim helped direct a team of Times reporters that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Public Service in 2009, for coverage of the financial crisis. The Times series that emerged from that work, “The Reckoning,” was also a winner of a 2009 Loeb Award for Distinguished Business Journalism.
Prior to becoming Sunday Business editor in 2006, Tim was a staff writer with the Times. Among the topics he has written about for the paper are Wall Street, Russia, Manhattan’s art world, cybercrimes and identity theft, geopolitics, international finance, digital media, Hollywood, terrorism and terrorist financing, money laundering, gambling, and white-collar fraud. He was part of a Times team that won a Loeb Award in 1999.
O’Brien has a BA cum laude in literature from Georgetown University. He also has an MA in U.S. history, an MS in journalism, and an MBA, all from Columbia University. He has lived and worked in Europe, South America, and Asia. He currently lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with his wife and children.