Alex Berenson (born January 6, 1973) is a former reporter for The New York Times and author of five novels and a book on corporate financial filings.[2] Alex Berenson (born January 6, 1973) is a former reporter for The New York Times and author of five novels and a book on corporate financial filings.[2] Berenson was born in New York, and grew up in Englewood, NJ.[3] Later in life he graduated from Yale University in 1994 with bachelor's degrees in history and economics. He joined the Denver Post in June 1994 as a business reporter. He published 513 articles through August 1996, when he left to join TheStreet.com, a financial news website founded by Jim Cramer. In December 1999, Berenson joined The New York Times as a business investigative reporter