David Milstead

David Milstead joined Kiplinger Personal Finance magazine in May 2025 after 15 years writing for The Globe and Mail, the national newspaper of Canada.

A business journalist since 1994, he has written about investing, executive compensation, corporate governance, public pensions, accounting, financial reporting and taxes.

David spent eight years at the now-defunct Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado. Before that, he had a short stint at the Wall Street Journal and at publications in Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio and his native South Carolina.

He’s won nine national business journalism awards from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) as an individual or as member of a team and has been a finalist or winner five times in SABEW's Canadian contest, including from 2022 to 2024 for column writing.

In 2022, David and his Globe and Mail colleagues won Canada's National Newspaper Award for investigations and the country's highest prize for journalism, the Michener Award, for stories on the Catholic Church's relationship to the country's residential schools for Indigenous children. He and other colleagues were finalists in 2022 for the National Newspaper Award for politics coverage for a project on the government's COVID wage-support program.

David passed the Level I exam of the Chartered Financial Analyst program in December 2007. He had the real-world management experience of presiding over two turnarounds of the Denver Press Club, considered the oldest press club in the United States.

He majored in politics and economics at Oberlin College, which in the 1830s became the first predominantly white college to admit blacks and women.

David is a lifelong Dodgers fan, despite having no connection to California, and named his youngest child for Jackie Robinson. An avid concertgoer, his tastes range from singer-songwriters like Steve Earle and John Hiatt to punk bands such as Rancid and the Dropkick Murphys.