Allan Sloan is an American

United States

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 journalist who is currently senior editor at large at Fortune

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magazine.

Sloan was born in Brooklyn

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, New York and is a 1966 graduate of Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College

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 and a 1967 graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

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. He attended the Jewish Theological Seminary

Jewish Theological Seminary of America

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 for two years while he was an undergraduate at Brooklyn College.

He is a veteran journalist who worked at Newsweek

Newsweek

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before being hired by Fortune, and has spoken about the economy

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 on TV shows such as Charlie Rose

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and The Colbert Report.

In 2008, Sloan won the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award

Gerald Loeb Award

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for the seventh time. The prize was given for his story "House of Junk", which showed how subprime mortgages went bad.