Theo Francis — financial & investigative journalist

I’m a Washington-based reporter with more than a decade of experience digging into complex financial, regulatory, legal and public-policy issues and explaining them to general audiences, mostly while at major national news organizations. I now write for footnoted, the blog and subscription service founded and run by Michelle Leder, and I've launched an independent research company, Disclosure Matters (more detail here, or see the company website). I also teach introductory reporting and news writing  at the University of Maryland. During July and very early August 2012, I blogged about business and the glboal economy for NPR's Planet Money. I'm available to speak, and to help others learn how to make better use of corporate disclosures.

My goal with this site is to bring together the various threads of my professional life, including current jobs, past work and future projects. You can see some of my work from over the years featured below. To the right, and at the TheoWire link, is a combined feed of all my new work, both from this site and from outside publications.

At the left are links to various current and past projects, each of which includes a variety of recent and featured articles and blog posts. 

Let me know if you’d like to be on the list of people to whom I periodically email articles. For more on me and my past work, you can also see my resume, or my about me page.