
Lenzner was New York correspondent for the Boston Globe from 1971 to 1982 and its New York Bureau Chief from 1983 to 1990. He was a columnist for the Boston Globe and the Dallas Morning News from 1990 to 1992 and was a correspondent for The Economist from 1973 to 1992.
Lenzner joined Forbes as a Senior Editor in 1992 and also served as National Editor. His areas of expertise included Wall Street, investment banking, finance, the oil industry, corporate takeovers, insider trading and litigation. He has appeared on “Forbes on Fox,” “Forbes on Radio,” the BBC, CNN, CNBC and MSNBC. He is the author of The Great Getty, a biography of J. Paul Getty, which spent 13 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. His articles have also appeared in Barron’s, Vanity Fair, the (London) Financial Times, the New York Observer and the Rocky Mountain News.
In 2014 Lenzner was a fellow at the Shorenstein Center On Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School, where he wrote about the media’s failure to foresee the 2008 financial crisis and how it can avoid similar mistakes in the future, and examined the vulnerability of giant banks to the growing threat of cyberattacks.
Click on the cover for details about the eBook: