I am an investigative journalist, tv producer, and writer with 20 years of experience covering a wide variety of topics across multiple platforms. Usually, I write about financial crime. Over the years, I have interviewed senior-level politicians, corporate leaders, law enforcement officials, crime victims, perpetrators, informants, and a handful of nuns. I am adept at digging through boxes of documents to find a story and bring it to life.
I am currently writing and producing a documentary about artificial intelligence.
From 2010-2023, I was a senior producer at Kurtis Productions, a Chicago-based production company that is an industry leader in the creation of true-crime documentaries. There, I wrote and produced episodes of CNBC’s long-running financial crime documentary series, American Greed.
Before working on American Greed, I was a supervising producer at Current TV, Al Gore’s Emmy award-winning cable network, where I helped launch a show called infoMania with one of the creator’s of The Daily Show.
With a background in investigative reporting, I have researched and written pitches for numerous nonfiction series, including This Giant Beast That is the Global Economy, a financial docu-series by Adam McKay for Amazon Prime that was produced by the Intellectual Property Corporation and Gary Sanchez Productions.
An article I wrote about a Black man who conned dozens of whites in the south during the Jim Crow era is currently under development as a feature film.
I began my career as a print journalist and have had articles published in papers ranging from the Los Angeles Times to the Point Reyes Light, a Pulitzer-winning community weekly in Marin County, California.
I am the co-author of Call Me Commander: A Former Intelligence Officer and the Journalists Who Uncovered His Scheme to Fleece America, a book that was published by Potomac Books in 2021 on the life of John Donald Cody.
A graduate of the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, I live in Lexington, Kentucky with my two sons.
I can be reached at daniel@danielfreed.com.
Daniel Freed 