Denise Blostein

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Senior Video Journalist, The Wall Street Journal

RIdgewood, NY US

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Reporter, producer and visual storyteller expanding what we already know about the biggest stories that erupt out of the news cycle and capture our attention.

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Denise Blostein is a senior video journalist at The Wall Street Journal, and part of a unit that produces video investigations and long-form video stories. She is part of an Emmy-nominated team for a series that revealed how Amazon failed to protect consumers from unsafe products and sourced merchandise from banned factories in Bangladesh. She was also part of a team that was a 2020 Pulitzer Prize investigative reporting finalist on the same topic. Since joining the Journal in 2012, Denise has produced explainers and short documentaries on subjects ranging from the art world to pro-Democracy protests in Hong Kong, as well as a feature-length documentary on the supply-chain crisis that erupted amid the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic. She was a producer for the feature length documentary "Shadow Men: Inside Prigozhin’s Wagner, Russia’s Secret War Company | WSJ Documentary," which was a 2024 duPont-Columbia Award Finalist and screened at the 2023 SCAD Savannah Film Festival.

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Shadow Men: Inside Prigozhin’s Wagner, Russia’s Secret War Company | WSJ Documentary

The Wall Street Journal’s latest documentary “Shadow Men: Inside Russia’s Secret War Company” goes deep inside the lethal global expansion of the Russian private military company Wagner — tracing the group's evolution from a small, guns-for-hire operation into a sprawling network of businesses that has been active on four continents.

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Chain Reaction: Why Global Supply Chains May Never Be the Same

Every day, millions of sailors, truck drivers, longshoremen, warehouse workers and delivery drivers keep mountains of goods moving into stores and homes to meet consumers’ increasing expectations of convenience. But this complex movement of goods underpinning the global economy is far more vulnerable than many imagined.

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