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is the chief executive officer of Pershing Square Capital Management and also serves as its portfolio manager. He may be best known for his“ massive short” on Herbalife— a weight loss and nutritional supplement – which Ackerman believes is a pyramid scheme, and which is the subject of the film, BETTING ON ZERO.
reported from Haiti from 2010 to 2014 through grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and New York University. She has been featured on NPR and the BBC, discussing rape in the camps in Haiti and HIV / AIDS in the aftermath of the earthquake, and has received several awards, including the National Press Club’ s Joan Friedenberg Award for Online Journalism for her work in Haiti.
, a producer, editor and cinematographer, recently directed DO NOT RESIST, an exploration of the rapid militarization of the police in the United States. The film won the award for Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival. He produced and was the co-cinematographer on the documentary DETROPIA, which is about Detroit trying to reinvent itself.
is an American investigative journalist. Since 2012, he has been the Contributing Editor of Investigations for Forbes magazine. From 1982 to 2004, he wrote on the staffs of Forbes, Time and Fortune. Behar’ s work has also been featured on BBC, CNN, PBS, FoxNews. com and Fast Company magazine. He coordinates Project Klebnikov, a media alliance to probe the Moscow murder of Forbes editor Paul Klebnikov. Behar is co-founder and co-editor of The Mideast Reporter, described by historian Gil Troy as“ the Mideast Politico.” He is also the editor of Mideast Dig.
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