Dakin Campbell

Dakin Campbell is a veteran business journalist and a chief correspondent on Business Insider's investigations team.

His most recent project was an 11-part series about a private prison healthcare company that declared bankruptcy, leaving hundreds of plaintiffs without their day in court.

The reporting, with BI colleague Nicole Einbinder, led to the resignation of a federal judge, and elicited inquiries from US Senators. It was awarded the Silver Award from the Barlett and Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism. 

Dakin has also written about government agencies, lawyers and judges in Texas, consumer financial products, Wall Street drug culture, Goldman Sachs, technology startups like WeWork, private equity, hedge funds, securities markets, and other business topics. 

In 2022, he wrote a book, Going Public, that told the story of the disruptors who set out to open up the closed world of the IPO market. The Economist cited the book's "vivid detail," and he was interviewed about it by The New York Times, NPR, Fortune magazine, and others.

Dakin spent a decade at Bloomberg News before joining Business Insider in 2018. A native of upstate New York, he graduated from Cornell University and Columbia University, and held the CFA charter before he chose to stop paying dues.

He can be found on Twitter, Bluesky, and LinkedIn, or at his personal website, where you can sign up to receive occasional email updates.

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