User:Mtatge
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Mark W. Tatge (born June 2, 1955), is a Senior Editor and bureau chief of Forbes’ Magazine’s Midwest Bureau, a position he has held since June 2000. Prior to joining Forbes, Tatge was a staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal, an investigative reporter in the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s statehouse bureau, and a staff writer for both the Dallas Morning News and The Denver Post. He has written extensively about corporate misdeeds, starting with his coverage of the savings and loan scandal in Colorado during the 1980s where he chronicled the funny money accounting of a high flying thrift, Silverado Banking. After failing, Silverado became a posterchild for the corruption inflecting the nation's savings and loans, a problem that arose after the federal government deregulated the industry.
Early in his career, Tatge ran a small daily and a weekly newspaper in rural Wisconsin, winning awards for editorial excellence. He is a past Kiplinger Fellow in Public Affairs Reporting at Ohio State University where he completed his masters degree in journalism. He holds a bachelors degree from Western Illinois University and has completed two years of coursework towards his MBA. He is an adjunct professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and commentator on CNBC, National Public Radio, FOX, Forbes on Fox, MSNBC, and Chicago PBS affiliate WTTW-11.
