Christopher Carey

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Christopher Carey is a veteran investigative reporter who recently premiered his web site Sharesleuth.com. While a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan, Carey developed the idea for an online site that would provide the sort of in-depth investigative business journalism newspapers rarely produce anymore, focusing on what Carey sees as the grossly under-reported and under-prosecuted arena of stock fraud and white collar crime.

In the spring of 2006, Carey approached billionaire Mark Cuban via email to propose he help fund the venture. Cuban agreed. Among Cuban's ideas for making Sharesleuth.com profitable is the controversial practice of shorting the stocks of the companies Sharesleuth.com is investigating prior to publication of their reports.

Born February 17, 1961, Carey is a native of Ames, Iowa. He received his bachelor's degree, a double-major in journalism and economics, from the Indiana University in 1983. He launched his journalism career at the Messenger-Inquirer in Owensboro, Kentucky. Subsequently, he reported for the Orlando Sentinel, the Indianapolis Star and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he worked for 17 years.

Carey was a finalist for the 2005 Gerald Loeb Business awards for his 2004 "High Tech Shell Game" investigative reporting series for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 2005, he was selected as one of the Knight-Wallace Fellows at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

In 2006, Carey relocated permanently to Ann Arbor from St. Louis. He has been married since 2001 to writer Julia Smillie.

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