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“If someone were going to make this story into a movie, I want to hear about the scenes that would be in it.” Notable scenes of Jen Wieczner's career include commuting from Boston to New York while juggling a juice bar job and a journalism internship, scrambling for interviews in Japan, and attending the Goldman Sachs CEO's late night DJ set. Now a features writer at New York Magazine, she discusses how she approaches long-form stories on finance and other topics.
Countries featured: United States, Japan
Publications featured: Fast Company, Marie Claire, Smart Money, Market Watch, Dow Jones, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, New York Magazine
 
Here are links to some of the things we talked about:
Jen's profile of an abrasive chess master - https://bit.ly/3Xk1nOq 
Her story Why Your Boss is Dumping Your Wife - https://bit.ly/4c36wPd 
Her profile of Mylan's CEO Heather Bresch - https://bit.ly/4blkawh 
Her profile of Steve Cohen's return to hedge funds - https://bit.ly/4elwI9n 
Her story on How High Can Bitcoing Go - https://bit.ly/4eADdWa 
Her story The Crypto Geniuses Who Vaporized a Trillion Dollars - https://bit.ly/3XrnXou 
Her story about nannies in NYC - https://bit.ly/4eqNSTe 
The Atlantic article Bill Ackman Is a Brilliant Fictional Character - https://bit.ly/3VGzkYe 
Reeve's Wiedeman's book on WeWork - https://bit.ly/4aZMxQk 
Jen's story on Mt. Gox in Japan - https://bit.ly/3Vpxmds 
Her Fortune profile of the Goldman Sachs CEO - https://bit.ly/3VoC37b 
Her NYMag profile of the Goldman Sachs CEO - https://bit.ly/3VHDJKy 
New York Post cover on the Oculus leaking - https://tinyurl.com/36dpkc27 
New York Daily News cover on the Oculus leaking - https://images.app.goo.gl/3dP4hzYhBeDJLu3p6
Matt Levine's Bloomberg newsletter - https://tinyurl.com/mxyvmmuk 
Patrick Radden Keefe's profile of Larry Gagosian - https://tinyurl.com/hukku73u 
Jessica Pressler on Wikipedia - https://tinyurl.com/yeyjwsdt 
The movie She Said on IMDb - https://tinyurl.com/3shuv74z 
 
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"To tab. Verb. To rewrite a news article in a tabloid-style." We learn a new word in this episode of the podcast from Sean Collins Walsh, a City Hall reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Sean looks back on his first job at the tabloid Philadelphia Daily News and a career that has landed him reporting back in his hometown of Philly.
Countries featured: USA, Uganda
Publications featured: Philadelphia Daily News, Austin American-Statesmen, The Philadelphia Inquirer
 
Here are links to some of the things we talked about:
The first FoCo episode - https://bit.ly/44qOJyC 
The Toner Prize - https://bit.ly/44lRQIb 
Sean's story on the ethics board probe into Jeff Brown - https://bit.ly/44wjlPd 
 
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A promising journalism career briefly takes a dark turn down the path of Instagram influencing. Alden Wicker, a freelance journalist and author, managed to come out the other side. Her career as a sustainable fashion journalist - as the editor of EcoCult and freelancer for numerous big name publications - culminated with her book To Dye For. We also discuss manifesting, MDMA and sex parties. 
Countries featured: U.S.A., Bangladesh, India
Publications featured: Huffington Post, LearnVest, Newsweek, EcoCult, WIRED, Quartz, Refinery29, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, VTDigger
 
Here are links to some of the things we talked about:
My story in the Overseas Press Club Award-winning series - https://bit.ly/4ac8bBa 
Alden's book To Dye For on Amazon.com - https://bit.ly/4afMBf5 
EcoCult - https://ecocult.com 
Alden's story for Newsweek - https://bit.ly/43ByRch 
Her story about American Spirit cigarettes - https://bit.ly/4aCD5Cu 
Her story on a startup sex party with a questionable founder - https://bit.ly/4cEZwcg 
Her Harper's Bazaar story on toxic clothing - https://bit.ly/43FM5og 
Sourcing Journal - https://sourcingjournal.com
Rebecca Solnit's story In the Shadow of Silicon Valley - https://bit.ly/4cD02Hw 
Alden's story about Burning Man environmental impacts - https://bit.ly/3xknjOw 
The book She Said - https://bit.ly/4aBJmP2 
 
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Born in Mexico to American parents, David Luhnow (@davidluhnow) returned to report on the country for decades. Luhnow talks about the tectonic shifts in Mexico and yet, how through all this time, the country's institutions continue to fail. The mental toll of years reporting on Mexico's drug war contributed to his leaving to become the current United Kingdom bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal​​. Also, he gets punched in the face.
Countries featured: Mexico, Panama, Iraq, Egypt, United Kingdom
Publications featured: The Mexico City News, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal
 
Here are links to some of the things we talked about
David's story on the UK university system - https://bit.ly/3szftyy
Yaroslav Trofimov on WSJ.com - https://bit.ly/47AewFv
David's story A Day in the Life of Baghdad - https://bit.ly/3SKiWoB
His story on the Treasure of Nimrud in Iraq - https://bit.ly/3SMB692
His story on the Iraq cigarette company - https://bit.ly/3R5jYKp
His story on murder in Acapulco - https://bit.ly/47ksI5f
His story on a high school kidnap ring - https://bit.ly/49KE8AY
Mexico's Reforma newspaper - https://bit.ly/49CUpb7
Letras Libras - https://letraslibres.com
The Rest is History podcast - https://bit.ly/49FBYlT
New Yorker story "How the Elderly Lose Their Rights" - https://bit.ly/3sFz3Js
José de Córdoba's story on the Russian yacht in Antigua - https://bit.ly/40K1fr4
 
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Leaving school at age 16 for a technical apprenticeship, Andrew Downie (@adowniebrazil) would stumble into his first journalism job while traveling in Mexico. Within five years he'd be working for The New York Times in Haiti. After decades of covering Latin America, Andrew now lives in Spain where he is working on a biography of soccer legend Pelé.
Countries featured: Brazil, Haiti, Mexico, Spain, Scotland
Publications featured: The Mexico City News, UPI, New York Times, The Houston Chronicle, Time magazine, Reuters
 
Here are links to some of the things we talked about:
Andrew's website - https://bit.ly/3rdleRx
His biography of Socrates - https://bit.ly/44RTmA9
The Instagram dedicated to Socrates - https://bit.ly/3PxT9xO
Tariq Panja on Twitter - https://bit.ly/3EBn3Ln
Always Take Notes podcast - https://bit.ly/3sJQ4Sl
Unofficial Partner podcast - https://bit.ly/3LiNqt0
Tommy Tomlinson substack - https://bit.ly/45PWQof
Wright Thompson on Longform - https://bit.ly/3Ew7hRS
 
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Business is a lot like sports. It's competitive and stock prices keep the score. Also keeping score is one of the world's highest powered business journalists: Liana Baker (@LianaBaker), managing editor for the Bloomberg deals team in the United States. She talks about how dabbling in sports, foreign reporting and environment eventually led her down the path of hardcore business reporting on the M&A beat.
Countries featured: United States, Israel, Brazil, South Korea
Publications featured: MarketWatch, Reuters, Bloomberg
 
Here are links to some of the things we talked about:
Ringette on Wikipedia - https://bit.ly/45ndwTK
The Media Line website - https://bit.ly/3qRwSRX
Liana tells how she got the story on Soft Bank selling Sprint to T-mobile - https://bit.ly/45kcNTy
Her story on Broadcom buying VMWare - https://bit.ly/3OM23pO
Dealreporter - https://bit.ly/45HWe3u
Barstool Sports - https://bit.ly/45ASoK9
The House of Gucci by Sara Gay Forden - https://bit.ly/3ONWqYn
Megan Twohey on Twitter - https://bit.ly/3lVRUIO
The Dropout on Hulu - https://bit.ly/45iVtyj
 
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