My Work and Career
SABEW's Distinguished Achievement Award: In 2017, I received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Society of Advancing Business Editing and Writing, its highest honor given to an individual who has made a significant impact on the field of business journalism and who has influenced others in the profession. Sabew said in announcing the award: "With a career spanning more than 40 years, Ingrassia is one of the most accomplished business journalists in the country and has directed coverage that has won numerous Pulitzer Prizes, awards and other honors."
In 2009, I was honored with the annual Minard editor award given by the Gerald Loeb Awards for directing coverage of causes of the financial crisis in the fall of 2008; that coverage was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in the Public Service category.
In 2009, I was honored with the annual Minard editor award given by the Gerald Loeb Awards for directing coverage of causes of the financial crisis in the fall of 2008; that coverage was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in the Public Service category.
Cancer killed my mother, brother, and sisters. As the longest-living member of my family, I was determined to understand why
My latest book, A Fatal Inheritance, part memoir, part medical mystery, was published May 14, 2024. It tells the parallel stories of our family and others puzzling over deadly tumors, and the quest by doctors to understand the cause of seemingly unrelated malignancies in generation after generation, often at young ages.
It is a heartbreaking story of family loss, but also an inspiring story of scientific achievement. I interviewed more than one hundred fifty people, including relatives and long lost friends of my siblings; delved into medical records and met with other cancer-prone families whose cases intrigued researchers in the 1960s, when cancer was a black box; and connected with medical pioneers who - despite skepticism early on - pursued their theory about a hereditary link, and eventually were proven right.
My sister Angela and my dad Angelo with my sister Gina at her wedding in August 1980.
Angela would die of cancer at age twenty-four in 1981, and Gina would die of cancer at ager thirty-two in 1987.
My latest book, A Fatal Inheritance, part memoir, part medical mystery, was published May 14, 2024. It tells the parallel stories of our family and others puzzling over deadly tumors, and the quest by doctors to understand the cause of seemingly unrelated malignancies in generation after generation, often at young ages.
It is a heartbreaking story of family loss, but also an inspiring story of scientific achievement. I interviewed more than one hundred fifty people, including relatives and long lost friends of my siblings; delved into medical records and met with other cancer-prone families whose cases intrigued researchers in the 1960s, when cancer was a black box; and connected with medical pioneers who - despite skepticism early on - pursued their theory about a hereditary link, and eventually were proven right.
My sister Angela and my dad Angelo with my sister Gina at her wedding in August 1980.
Angela would die of cancer at age twenty-four in 1981, and Gina would die of cancer at ager thirty-two in 1987.
The iEconomy: This series, which I conceived and edited at The New York Times, won a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 2013, "For its penetrating look into business practices by Apple and other technology companies that illustrates the darker side of a changing global economy for workers and consumers."
From the Pulitzer Prize nominating letter: The series quickly went viral, drawing thousands of reader comments and attention across the political spectrum. “I don’t usually like the NYT,” Ari Fleischer, press secretary to President George W. Bush, tweeted, “but this article about why Apple doesn’t hire Americans for manufacturing is a must read.” Jon Stewart and Rush Limbaugh discussed the series on their broadcasts. Award-winning financial columnist Allan Sloan sent this e-mail to an editor at The Times: “You guys are doing terrific Apple stories that, to steal a phrase, may change the world.” Henry Blodget of Business Insider wrote, “The article illustrates just how big a challenge the U.S. faces in trying to stop the ‘hollowing out’ process that has sent middle-class jobs overseas — and, with it, the extreme inequality that has developed in recent years.”
From the Pulitzer Prize nominating letter: The series quickly went viral, drawing thousands of reader comments and attention across the political spectrum. “I don’t usually like the NYT,” Ari Fleischer, press secretary to President George W. Bush, tweeted, “but this article about why Apple doesn’t hire Americans for manufacturing is a must read.” Jon Stewart and Rush Limbaugh discussed the series on their broadcasts. Award-winning financial columnist Allan Sloan sent this e-mail to an editor at The Times: “You guys are doing terrific Apple stories that, to steal a phrase, may change the world.” Henry Blodget of Business Insider wrote, “The article illustrates just how big a challenge the U.S. faces in trying to stop the ‘hollowing out’ process that has sent middle-class jobs overseas — and, with it, the extreme inequality that has developed in recent years.”
Brotherly love: I went golfing in Scotland with my brother, Paul, a distinguished journalist and author known for his coverage of the auto industry, after he had recovered from lung cancer. He died two decades later, in September 2019, after many more cancers. I'll forever cherish this time with him, one of many favorite memories.
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The 2008 financial crisis: As the New York Times business editor, I oversaw coverage of the financial markets meltdown, including "The Reckoning" series that explored the origins of the crisis and that won a Loeb award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2009.
Here are few of the stories in the series:
Taking Hard New Look at a Greenspan Legacy
On Wall Street, Bonuses, Not Profits, Were Real
Agency's '04 Rule Let Banks Pile Up New Debt
Citigroup Saw No Red Flags Even as It Made Bolder Bets
As Credit Crisis Spiraled, Alarm Led to Action
From Midwest to M.T.A., Pain From Global Gamble
Struggling to Keep Up as the Crisis Raced On
Here are few of the stories in the series:
Taking Hard New Look at a Greenspan Legacy
On Wall Street, Bonuses, Not Profits, Were Real
Agency's '04 Rule Let Banks Pile Up New Debt
Citigroup Saw No Red Flags Even as It Made Bolder Bets
As Credit Crisis Spiraled, Alarm Led to Action
From Midwest to M.T.A., Pain From Global Gamble
Struggling to Keep Up as the Crisis Raced On
Europe and the euro: In 1998, before the euro common currency was adopted, I wrote an in-depth story that examined some of the challenges that Europe would face as it further integrated its economies - challenges that it has struggled to manage to this day.