I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
Allan Sloan Quotes
Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.
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| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Journalist |
About
Allan Sloan is an American journalist who is senior editor at large at Fortune magazine. Sloan was born in Brooklyn, New York and is a 1966 graduate of Brooklyn College and a 1967 graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He attended the Jewish Theological Seminary for two years while he was an undergraduate at Brooklyn College. He is a veteran journalist who worked at Newsweek before being hired by Fortune, and has spoken about the economy on TV shows such as Charlie Rose, The Colbert Report and regularly on American Public Media's Marketplace found on NPR. In 2008, Sloan won the Gerald Loeb Award for the seventh time. The prize was given for his story "House of Junk", which showed how subprime mortgages went bad.
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