Click to zoom David Whitford
Editor at Large, FORTUNE
Contributor, FORTUNE Small Business

David Whitford joined FORTUNE magazine as a senior writer in 1996 and FORTUNE Small Business as an editor at large in 2001. In 2007 he returned to FORTUNE as an editor at large, based in Boston.

Prior to joining FORTUNE and FSB, Whitford was a senior writer at Inc. magazine, a writer at Sport magazine and a noted freelance writer on subjects that extend well beyond finance and business for magazines such as Esquire, GQ and UU World. Whitford has published three sports-related books — one on corruption in college football, and two on baseball. An occasional television and radio commentator, Whitford has appeared on Nightline, the Today Show, the O'Reilly Factor and NPR's Here and Now.

Whitford was raised in Wayne, Pennsylvania, attended high school in Madison, Wisconsin, and graduated from Brown University with a major in history. He has a graduate degree in journalism from Columbia University. Whitford is an active member of the Newspaper Guild of NY. A longtime member of the National Writers Union, he was a named plaintiff in the landmark case, Tasini vs. The New York Times, which went all the way to the Supreme Court in April 2001, guaranteeing important rights for freelance writers. He was a finalist in the magazine category for the 2003 Gerald Loeb Award for excellence in financial journalism.

Whitford lives in Arlington, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters.