Jesse Eisinger was The Wall Street editor of Conde Nast Portfolio, where he wrote a November 2007 cover story titled "Wall Street Requiem," in which he predicted the demise of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. Before joining. Portfolio, he worked at The Wall Street Journal, where he was the founding writer of two market commentary columns, and he played a leading role in exposing accounting fraud at Belgium-based Lernout & Hauspie. During his tenure at The Wall Street Journal's European edition, Eisinger won a "Best in Business" award from the London-based World Leadership Forum for his coverage of accounting irregularities at the Irish drug maker Elan Corp. Earlier in his career, he covered biotechnology and pharmaceuticals for TheStreet.com and Dow Jones Newswires. Since joining ProPublica, he collaborated with Jake Bernstein on a series of stories about the Wall Street machinations that that led to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. He also writes a bi­weekly column that appears at ProPublica and The New York Times Dealbook called "The Trade."

Jake Bernstein worked at The Texas Observer, an investigative biweekly, for six years, and as its executive editor from 2004 to 2008. Bernstein began his career in Central America, where for several years he reported on efforts to end longstanding civil conflicts. He served as a staff writer for the Pasadena [Texas] Citizen and then for the Miami New Times. His work has received numerous state-level and national journalism awards, and The Texas Observer, under his leadership, was named Best Political Magazine of 200S by Utne Reader. Bernstein is co-author of Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency (2006). At ProPublica, Bernstein has covered bank failures, the Madoff scandal, and collaborated with ProPublica's Jesse Eisinger on a series of stories about the Wall Street machinations that that led to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.