Ernest Beck is an award-winning journalist with extensive writing and editing experience at prestigious newspapers, magazines, and Web sites. He is a contributing editor to Change Observer, a part of the Design Observer Group. A veteran staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal for almost a decade, he covered politics and economics in Eastern Europe while based in Budapest, and took on a corporate beat in London covering the consumer-goods, advertising and marketing industries. Now a freelance writer based in New York, Beck covers topics including business, globalization, personal finance, sustainability, and real estate, as well as design and innovation for media outlets including Businessweek.com, MSNmoney.com, and The New York Times. He writes about the business of art and design for publications including Art & Auction, Architect, I.D., Worth, and Print. He also contributes lifestyle stories to magazines such as Lexus, Patek Philippe, and Forbes Life.

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