PERSON: Tim O’Brien

Bloomberg View

Executive Editor

Timothy L. O’Brien (born 1961) is an American journalist.<br> <br> Born in Illinois, O’Brien is a graduate of Loyola Academy and Georgetown University, where he studied literature. He has three master’s degrees from Columbia University, in history, journalism, and business.<br> <br> O’Brien is the publisher and a member of the editorial board at Bloomberg View, a commentary site about business, politics, and foreign affairs. O’Brien was a reporter for The New York Times before becoming its Sunday business editor in 2006. O’Brien has written two nonfiction books: 1998’s Bad Bet: The Inside Story of the Glamour, Glitz, and Danger of America’s Gambling Industry and 2005’s TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald. He contracted with Random House for a series of historical novels during the period between the American Civil War and World War I. His novel The Lincoln Conspiracy was published in 2012. He was previously the executive editor of The Huffington Post and has written for The Wall Street Journal and Talk Magazine. O’Brien edited a multi-part series on wounded war veterans that won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2012. He is also a recipient of a Loeb Award for Distinguished Business Journalism. He helped oversee a team of New York Times reporters that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for its coverage of the 2008 financial crisis.<br> <br> TrumpNation is notable for its controversial claim that celebrity real estate mogul Donald Trump was worth no more than $250 million (USD). Trump, who claimed at the time to be a billionaire and who has built a reputation upon his wealth, filed suit against O’Brien and Warner Books on January 23, 2006. On July 15, 2009, the suit was dismissed by a New Jersey judge. Trump appealed, but the dismissal was upheld by an appeals court on September 7, 2011.<br> <br> — Wikipedia