# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-cay-johnston
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:18:04.291Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-cay-johnston"
name: "David Cay Johnston"
slug: "david-cay-johnston"
description: "David Cay Boyle Johnston is an American investigative journalist and author, a specialist in economics and tax issues, and winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting."
tagline: "Investigative journalist and author"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1948-12-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  90
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump