Jon Friedman, a columnist for The Fiscal Times and a freelance writer and editor, covered the media beat for MarketWatch of Dow Jones, writing the website's Media Web column from 1999 to 2013. Previously, he covered Wall Street for Bloomberg, USA Today, and Investors Business Daily. A graduate of the Masters program at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Friedman is also the author of Forget About Today: Bob Dylan's Genius for (Re)invention, Shunning the Naysayers and Creating a Personal Revolution (2012) and co-author of House of Cards: Inside the Troubled Empire of American Express (1993). He has profiled Ellen Malcolm, the founder of Emily's List, for The New York Times Sunday Magazine, as well as Sandy Weill, Ronald Perelman, and Sotheby's for The New York Times Sunday Business Section.