David Enrich

I’m the business investigations editor for The New York Times. I manage a team of reporters and write about law and business.

What I Cover

I often write about the intersection of law and business, including the power wielded by giant corporate law firms and the changing contours of the First Amendment and libel law.

I remain fascinated by Wall Street and banking, topics that I covered for years earlier in my career. And I am always on the lookout for tips about institutional wrongdoing — especially if they involve compelling personal stories.

My Background

I’ve been a journalist my entire adult life. I started out covering Washington for a bunch of small newspapers, including The Vindicator in Youngstown, Ohio, and The Amarillo Globe-News in Texas. I then got into business reporting at Dow Jones Newswires, followed by The Wall Street Journal, where I worked for 10 years in New York and London.

I joined The Times in 2017 as the finance editor and became business investigations editor in 2020.

I’ve written three books: “The Spider Network” (about the man at the center of a global financial scandal), “Dark Towers” (about Deutsche Bank and Donald Trump) and “Servants of the Damned” (about giant law firms). My fourth, “Murder the Truth,” about the weaponization of libel law and the campaign to overturn the Supreme Court’s decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, will be published in March 2025.

I grew up in Lexington, Mass., and attended Claremont McKenna College in California. I live in New York with my wife, two sons and a cockapoo. I love the Boston Red Sox, Tottenham Hotspur and pickleball.

Journalistic Ethics

As a Times journalist, I share the values and adhere to the standards of integrity outlined in The Times’s Ethical Journalism handbook. Ethics are at the heart of everything my colleagues and I do as reporters and editors. I identify myself as a journalist whenever I am doing reporting. I try to put myself in the shoes of whoever I’m writing about so that I can understand their perspective in as nuanced a way as possible. I always strive to make sure the subjects of my articles have the chance to respond to my reporting.

I don’t write or edit articles about topics, institutions or people in which I have a personal stake, whether that is a financial investment or a connection via family or friends.

Protecting confidential sources is important. So is transparency with readers. When I make mistakes, I acknowledge and correct them.

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