Speakers

Tom Burton, JD
Staff Reporter
The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Burton joined the Journal in January 1990 as a general assignment reporter based in Chicago. He has covered his current beat since 1991.

During his last year in law school, Mr. Burton was a Washington, DC-based reporter for the Dallas Times Herald before going to work at the paper's main office in Dallas and also spent time in the paper's Dallas bureau. In 1975, he became an investigative and associate counsel with the New York State Assembly's Office of Legislative Oversight and Investigation, based

Mr. Burton returned to journalism in 1976 as a reporter with the Baltimore Sun. From 1978 to 1990, he was an investigative reporter first for the Philadelphia Bulletin (1978-1981), and later for the Chicago Sun Times (1981-1985) and the Chicago Tribune (1985-1989).

Along with two other Journal reporters, he won a 1996 Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism in the large newspaper category for their stories examining allegations of price-fixing and other illegalities at Archer-Daniels-Midland Company, the world's leading grain processor. The same team also won first place in the special projects category from the National Association of Agricultural Journalists in 1996 for their Archer-Daniels Midland coverage. In 2004 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism for articles on aortic aneurysm and dissection.

Mr. Burton is a member of Investigative Reporters & Editors Inc.

A native of South Bend, Indiana, Mr. Burton earned a bachelor's degree in history from Dartmouth College and a doctor of laws degree from Georgetown University Law Center.