Michael Hudson (reporter)

Michael Hudson
Born	Richmond, Virginia
Education	Washington and Lee University
Occupation	Journalist
Spouse(s)	Darcey Steinke

Michael Hudson (born 1961) is an American investigative journalist. His work has focused on the U.S. subprime mortgage industry, Wall Street, and financial fraud. Hudson is a senior editor with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). At ICIJ, Hudson has worked as a reporter and editor on the organization's Offshore Leaks, Luxembourg Leaks and Panama Papers investigations of offshore money laundering and tax avoidance. He was project editor, reporter and writer on ICIJ's World Bank investigation.

Prior to joining ICIJ in January 2012, Hudson covered business and finance as a staff writer at the Center for Public Integrity. Hudson's book The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America – and Spawned a Global Crisis, was named 2010 Book of the Year by Baltimore City Paper.

Hudson was born in Richmond, Virginia and grew up in Franklin County, Virginia. He graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1985.

Hudson worked as a staff writer for The Roanoke Times and The Wall Street Journal. Hudson is a former senior investigator with the Center for Responsible Lending.

Columbia Journalism Review has called Hudson the reporter who “beat the world on subprime abuses” and credited him with being ahead of the rest of the media in exposing the fraudulent lending practices that were the driving causes of the mortgage crisis. Businessjournalism.org has called him the "guru of all things predatory lending." Hudson began investigating the subprime mortgage industry in the early 1990s.

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