David Cay Johnston Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd

11/16/12 • 68 min

David Cay Johnston is President of Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE), an education organization with 4,200 members. A 13-year veteran of The New York Times, David won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for enterprise reporting that uncovered loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code. He wrote the best selling tax books Perfectly Legal, which won an IRE medal, and Free Lunch. With Jay Ackroyd, David dicusses his latest book, The Fine Print:How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind Follow @DavidCayJ @JayAckroyd Read http://blogs.reuters.com/david-cay-johnston/

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