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REBECCA THEIM has reporting and writing experience across a wide range of topics, media formats and outlets. She began her career as a reporter for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Times-Picayune of New Orleans. Her freelance work also has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, MSN Money, The Christian Science Monitor and in numerous other outlets.

Rebecca has researched and written compellingly about topics as varied as U.S. staffing and employment trends, the desegregation of New Orleans' Mardi Gras krewes, political patronage, the reliability of child testimony in criminal trials, insurance fraud,  expansion of U.S. casino gaming, the then-deadliest crash in Amtrak's history, bad bosses and "Sex and the City's" Mr. Big.

Besides earning graduate and undergradate degrees in journalism from Northwestern University and Ohio State University, Rebecca was a fellow in the Kipliner Midcareer Program in Public Affairs Reporting endowed by the Kiplinger media family.