Allan Sloan

Allan Sloan (born 1944 ) is an American journalist, formerly a senior editor at large at Fortune magazine. He subsequently became a business columnist on contract for The Washington Post, and since the start of 2023 has been self-employed.

Early years Sloan was born in Brooklyn, New York and is a 1966 graduate of Brooklyn College with a B.A.; he received his M.S. as a 1967 graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Career Sloan has spoken about the economy on television shows such as Charlie Rose, The Colbert Report and regularly on American Public Media's radio program Marketplace and heard on NPR.

In 2005, during the controversy surrounding Halliburton and Dick Cheney, Sloan wrote in his article, "Halliburton Pays Dearly but Finally Escapes Cheney's Asbestos Mess," that "As Cheney's Dresser misadventure shows, today's triumphant deal champ can be tomorrow's chump." Ten months later, in a Mother Jones article, "Bush's Bad Business Empire," Sloan was quoted as saying "Cheney was a 'CEO who messed up big-time.'"

In 2007, Sloan left Newsweek and began working as a Senior Editor at Large for Fortune magazine. In a 2009 story, "Unheeded Warnings," Chris Roush spoke to the fact that journalists had been "waving the red flag" for several years in the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis. Roush quoted Sloan as saying, "The fact that housing was a bubble was printed a million times."

In July 2014, "Positively Un-American" was published as a Fortune cover story, reporting on corporations dodging billions in taxes by doing something called a corporate inversion: moving their headquarters out of the U.S. and leaving American taxpayers to cover the cost of the taxes that they were dodging.

Sloan left Fortune in 2014, with his last article published in December 2014. After leaving Fortune, he wrote a business column on contract with the Washington Post, and since the beginning of 2023 he has been self-employed, writing for outlets that include Barron's, Yahoo Finance and Fast Company.

Awards and recognition Sloan has received many awards over the span of his more than 50-year career. He was picked as the Business Journalist of the Decade, by Talking Biz News for the first decade of the 21st century. 1985 Gerald Loeb Award for Magazines for "Full Speed Ahead - Damn the Torpedoes," Forbes 1991 Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary for "Deal" columns, Newsday 1991 John Hancock Award for Excellence in Business and Finance Journalism, Newsday 1993 Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary for "Deal" columns, Newsday 1999 Alumnus of the Year, Columbia School of Journalism 2001 Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award 2001 Distinguished Achievement Award, Society of American Business Editors and Writers 2008 Gerald Loeb Award for Magazines for "House of Junk," Fortune 2023 Post-50th Lifetime Achievement Award, Brooklyn College Alumni Association