FORA.tv Speaker - Dawn Kopecki

Dawn Kopecki is a reporter in Bloomberg News' Washington bureau, covering housing policy, mortgage finance and derivatives regulation.

She had previous worked as a correspondent at BusinessWeek magazine's Washington bureau, writing about politics, the SEC, the mortgage industry, accounting fraud, banking oversight and other Wall Street regulatory and legislative issues. Kopecki spent seven years at Dow Jones Newswires where she also frequently wrote for the Wall Street Journal. She covered Congress as well as securities, accounting, banking, housing and other financial service issues there. She won the 2006 William R. Clabby Dow Jones Newswires award for her coverage of accounting scandals at mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

She's also won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association for local business coverage. Kopecki completed the Ford Fellowship in Business Journalism at the University of Kansas in 1998.