Bill Vlasic

Bill Vlasic is an award-winning business reporter with more than fifteen years of experience specializing in the automotive industry. He is currently the Detroit bureau chief for the New York Times. He previously worked as a reporter for the Detroit News and as a correspondent for BusinessWeek. He is also the coauthor of Taken for a Ride, about the ill-fated 1998 merger between Daimler-Benz and Chrysler. Vlasic is a winner of the Gerald Loeb Award for excellence in financial journalism and has been recognized for his reporting and investigative journalism by the Associated Press and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. He lives near Detroit, Michigan.