Susan Berfield is an investigative reporter. She writes investigative and feature stories for Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg News. Berfield's topics include the dangers of generic drugs and the flaws in our recall system, a company that worked to misinform residents and discredit activists seeking to remove nuclear waste from a Superfund site outside St. Louis, how Walmart spies on its workers to prevent them from organizing, and a con man who talked a small Missouri town out of millions and was later convicted of fraud. Berfield has won awards from the Newswomen's Club of New York, the New York Press Club, the American Society of Business Publication Editors, and the Education Writers' Association. She contributes to the Pay Check, named the diversity and inclusion podcast of 2019 by Adweek. A collaboration with WNYC about the secretive family behind the largest mall in the country was a Loeb finalist in 2017. Her story about honey smugglers was the basis for an episode of the documentary series Rotten, which premiered on Netflix in 2018. She has appeared on National Public Radio and PBS NewsHour. Her first book, "The Hour of Fate, was published in 2020. Before joining Businessweek, Berfield was a senior writer at Asiaweek in Hong Kong, where her story, "Ten Days that Shook Indonesia," won the Society of Asian Publishers’ Reporting Award and the Hong Kong Human Rights Press Award. Berfield received her undergraduate degree is from Brown University and her master’s degree at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.