Adam L. Penenberg has written for Forbes, The New York Times, Fast Company, Inc., Slate, Wired, The Economist, Mother Jones and Playboy. A former Senior Editor at Forbes and reporter for Forbes.com, Penenberg garnered national attention in 1998 for unmasking serial fabricator Stephen Glass of The New Republic. Penenberg's story was a watershed for online investigative journalism and is portrayed in the film "Shattered Glass" (Steve Zahn plays Penenberg).

His first book, Spooked: Espionage in Corporate America (Perseus Books, 2000), was excerpted in The Sunday New York Times Magazine and received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. His second, Tragic Indifference: One Man's Battle With the Auto Industry Over the Dangers of SUVs (HarperBusiness, 2003) was optioned for the movies by Michael Douglas and excerpted in USA Today. He penned the popular "Media Hack" column for Wired News and covered technology for Slate. Currently he's a Contributing Writer to Fast Company. His Slate piece, "The Right Price for Digital Music," appears in The Best of Technology Writing 2006 (University of Michigan Press) while his Fast Company feature, "Revenge of the Nerds," was included in the 2007 edition. "Nerds" was also nominated for a Loeb Award and won a Deadline Club award for magazine feature writing, given out by the New York chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Currently he's writing a book on the shifting media landscape (University of Michigan Press).

A journalism professor at New York University, Penenberg is the assistant director of the Business & Economic Program, heads the department's ethics committee and teaches investigative reporting, magazine writing and media ethics to graduate students. He has appeared on the "Today Show” with Katie Couric, FoxNews, MSNBC, NBC, CNBC, CNN ("American Morning” with Soledad O'Brien, "Moneyline” and "Headline News”) and NPR.