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Zack O'Malley Greenburg is a senior editor at Forbes, where he covers the business of music & entertainment. He is the author of Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went From Street Corner To Corner Office and he's currently working on a second book, the business-focused biography Michael Jackson, Inc, which will be published by Simon & Schuster in 2014.

At his day job, he pens The Beat Report, which gives readers an inside look at the intersection of my two specialties, business and music. Over the past five years, he's reported on topics from tourism in Sierra Leone to the earning power of Hip-Hop Cash Kings like Jay-Z, interviewing personalities from Toby Keith to Justin Bieber in the process. In addition to Forbes, where he started as a summer intern in 2005, he's also written for The Washington Post, Sports Illustrated, Vibe, McSweeney's and others.