May 31, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — James B. Stewart, Pulitzer Prize-winning financial reporter and author
and 1973 graduate of DePauw University, is scheduled to appear tonight on Comedy Central's Colbert Report. Stewart will discuss his new book, Tangled Webs: How False Statements are Undermining America -- From Bernie Madoff to Martha Stewart.
The program airs at 11:31 p.m. (EST). Stewart's appearance is noted on the Boston Globe's website.
Tangled Webs, released on April 19, was previously featured on NBC's Today Show and lauded by Business Week magazine and the Washington Post, among others.
A member of DePauw's Board of Trustees and former chair of the group, James B. Stewart received a Pulitzer Prize for Wall Street Journal articles on the 1987 stock market crash and
the insider-trading scandal. Stewart's books include Blood Sport, DisneyWar: The Battle for the Magic Kingdom; as well as Den of Thieves; Blind Eye; and Follow the Story. He received the George Polk Award in 1987 and Gerald Loeb awards in 1987, 1988 and 2006. The San Francisco Examiner called Stewart, who served as editor of The DePauw while a student in Greencastle, "the journalist every journalist would like to be.
Jim Stewart was the recipient of DePauw's Young Alumni Award in 1988, an Alumni Citation in 1988, an honorary Doctor of Journalism degree in 1989, and the Old Gold Goblet in 2009.
He recently joined the New York Times as a columnist.