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Elliot Blair Smith is a Gerald Loeb Award winner for investigative journalism and a two-time finalist. He has worked as a foreign news bureau chief in Latin America; a war correspondent in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq; and now specializes in economics, finance and government policy. He lives and works in the Washington, D.C., area.
Recent Stories By Elliot Blair Smith:
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Special Report: The Real Story Behind Rising CEO PayMay 2, 2014
This four-part series presents CEO pay and compensation consultants through a new lens, reporting how an executive is paid can be as important as how much — and detailing how Ira Kay of Pay...
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An Unlikely Champion for Higher CEO PayMay 2, 2014
Last year, every $1 increase in Morgan Stanley’s stock price was potentially worth $128,756 more to the bank’s CEO, James Gorman, than it would have been two years earlier. The bigger opportunity — a...
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The High-Stakes Fight Over How to Measure CEO PayMay 1, 2014
The 848-page Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act dedicates 149 words to framing a new disclosure about “pay versus performance” at public companies. Boards and management must...
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How Smithfield Foods Larded Its CEO’s Pay PackageApril 30, 2014
Smithfield Foods CEO Larry Pope stands to take home $46.4 million from the sale of the world’s largest pork producer to Chinese interests last September. Once the deal was announced, the fine print...
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The Man Pushing CEO Pay to the StratosphereApril 29, 2014
Tiny ice crystals blew sideways, stinging the January air, as the bald man with a scowl made his way from his mid-Manhattan apartment to a debate a few blocks away. Ira Kay was on a mission to defend...