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Alpert, Bill |
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BILL ALPERT
Senior Editor
Barron's
New York
Bill Alpert is a senior editor for Barron's, The Dow Jones Business and Financial Weekly. He writes the "Tech Trader " column, supplying readers with unexpected information on companies in the computer, medical and biotech industries.
Mr. Alpert began his journalism career as a general assignment reporter for the Hudson Dispatch in Union City, N.J., where he worked from 1981 to 1982. He first joined Barron's as a staff writer in 1984. He resigned in September 1988 to become a stock analyst at a research-oriented hedge fund. He rejoined Barron's in 1996.
Born in Highland Park, Ill., Mr. Alpert graduated with honors from Yale College with a bachelor's degree in American Studies and received a master's degree in journalism and a law degree from Columbia University. While at Yale, he won the Norman Holmes Pearson Prize for the best senior essay in American Studies.
From 1986 to 1988, Mr. Alpert chaired the contract bargaining committee for the Independent Association of Publishers' Employees. He has also served as a board member of the Dick Goldensohn Fund, a not-for-profit foundation providing grants to reporters and writers.
Mr. Alpert and his wife, Beth Schwartz, live in New Jersey with their two boys. Ms. Schwartz is an opera and jazz singer.
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