Tim Farnam reports on the intersection of politics with business and money. He joined the Post in 2010 after three years in the Washington bureau of the Wall Street Journal. A native of New Haven, Conn., he attended New York University and studied politics, journalism and computer science. He was a writer for Newsday, covering crime and other local issues, and a blogger for Talking Points Memo in 2007. He won the 2010 Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress for a series on taxpayer-funded overseas travel by U.S. lawmakers.