Tim O'Brien is an editor at The New York Times, where he oversees the Sunday Business section. Prior to becoming Sunday Business editor in 2006, Tim was a staff writer for the Times. Among the topics and people he has written about for the paper are Wall Street, Russia, Manhattan's art world, cybercrimes and identity theft, Warren Buffett, geopolitics, digital media, international finance, Hollywood, terrorism and terrorist financing, Donald Trump, money laundering, gambling, and white-collar fraud.
Before returning to the Times in 2003, Tim was the senior feature writer at Talk, a magazine founded by former New Yorker editor Tina Brown. Tim was with Talk from 2000 until it ceased publishing in 2002. Before joining Talk, Tim was a reporter with the Times and, prior to that, The Wall Street Journal.
Tim has a B.A. cum laude in literature from Georgetown University, an M.A. in U.S. History from Columbia University, an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, and an MBA from Columbia University. He has lived and worked in Europe, South America and Asia.
Tim is currently under contract to write a series of historical novels set between the Civil War and World War I. He is also the author of a biography of Donald Trump, "TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald," which Warner Books published in 2005. His previous non-fiction book, "Bad Bet: The Inside Story of the Glitz, Glamour, and Danger of America's Gambling Industry," was published in 1998.
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Summer 2005 Loyola Focus Click here for a profile of Tim from his high school's alumni newsletter.
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