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is the chief executive officer of Pershing Square Capital Management and also serves as its portfolio manager . He may be best known for his “ massive short ” on Herbalife — a weight loss and nutritional supplement – which Ackerman believes is a pyramid scheme , and which is the subject of the film , BETTING ON ZERO .
reported from Haiti from 2010 to 2014 through grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and New York University . She has been featured on NPR and the BBC , discussing rape in the camps in Haiti and HIV / AIDS in the aftermath of the earthquake , and has received several awards , including the National Press Club ’ s Joan Friedenberg Award for Online Journalism for her work in Haiti .
, a producer , editor and cinematographer , recently directed DO NOT RESIST , an exploration of the rapid militarization of the police in the United States . The film won the award for Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival . He produced and was the co-cinematographer on the documentary DETROPIA , which is about Detroit trying to reinvent itself .
is an American investigative journalist . Since 2012 , he has been the Contributing Editor of Investigations for Forbes magazine . From 1982 to 2004 , he wrote on the staffs of Forbes , Time and Fortune . Behar ’ s work has also been featured on BBC , CNN , PBS , FoxNews . com and Fast Company magazine . He coordinates Project Klebnikov , a media alliance to probe the Moscow murder of Forbes editor Paul Klebnikov . Behar is co-founder and co-editor of The Mideast Reporter , described by historian Gil Troy as “ the Mideast Politico .” He is also the editor of Mideast Dig .
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