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Adam Penenberg

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Adam L. Penenberg (born July 27, 1962) is an American investigative journalist best known for uncovering the journalistic fraud of The New Republic reporter Stephen Glass in 1998. He was portrayed by Steve Zahn in the movie Shattered Glass. At the time, he was a journalist working for Forbes magazine's online Web publication.

As of 2005, Penenberg is an assistant professor of Journalism at New York University. He is also a freelance writer for Fast Company, the New York Times, Forbes, Wired News and Playboy. His non-fiction book, Tragic Indifference: One Man's Battle With the Auto Industry Over the Dangers of SUVs, which deals with the biggest product liability case in history, the Ford-Firestone fiasco, was published in 2003 and is currently being made into a movie.

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