David Milstead is a freelance financial journalist whose main client is the Globe and Mail, the national newspaper of Canada. He writes a biweekly column, Behind the Numbers, and contributes articles to the paper’s investing section.
He was finance editor of Denver’s Rocky Mountain News, where he wrote about corporate finance, executive compensation, banking, pensions and accounting until the newspaper closed in February 2009. He joined the News in April 2001 from The Wall Street Journal, where he worked for the paper’s Southeast Journal regional section. Before that, he was business editor of The (Rock Hill) Herald in his native South Carolina and worked at business publications in Dayton and Cincinnati, Ohio.
He is a graduate of Oberlin College in Ohio with majors in economics and political science. Milstead has individually or jointly won nine national awards from SABEW, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, since 2002. He passed the Level I exam in the Chartered Financial Analyst program in December 2007.