Kurt Eichenwald Resigns from Portfolio

Portfolio’s second issue hits newsstands on August 15, and there have now been two high-profile departures in the past four days alone.

Kurt Eichenwald, a senior writer and investigative reporter, has resigned, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.

For two decades, Mr. Eichenwald worked as an investigative Read More

Off the Record

Times CEO Plans “Town Meetings” at the Globe to Address Downturn

On Jan. 31, Janet Robinson, chief executive of the New York Times Company, opened an earnings conference call by addressing the bad news first: a $648 million loss in the fourth quarter of 2006.

The Times Company wrote down the value of its New Read More

Digging Deeper into the Muck: Dirty Details of Enron Fiasco

Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story, by Kurt Eichenwald. Broadway Books, 742 pages, $26.

The spectacular disintegration of Enron in 2001 left many shattered lives in its wake, both low-level workers whose pensions became worthless, and-at the other end of the culpability spectrum-executives, bankers and accountants who are now awaiting trial, sentencing or Read More