Reporters Angel Au-Yeung of the Wall Street Journal, and David Jeans of Forbes, discuss how they turned their reporting on the mysterious death of Zappos founder Tony Hsieh into a book. The discussion is facilitated by NYFWA vice president Olivia Carville of Bloomberg.
Join members and friends of the New York Financial Writers’ Association for a special evening at The Wall Street Journal on October 24th to honor Michael Siconolfi as the recipient of the 47th Elliott Bell Award, along with Jeff Horwitz and a team of Wall Street Journal journalists as the winners of the 2022 Impact Award for Distinguished Financial Journalism.
Kat Borgerding, senior editor, social and engagement, MarketWatch; Zoë Szathmary, deputy digital managing editor at Barron's; Kathryn Lurie, editor-in-charge, social media at Reuters; Ian Donnis, political reporter for The Public's Radio, Rhode Island's NPR member station; and Steve Gelsi, senior reporter, MarketWatch and board member of NYFWA discuss how media outlets are broadening their reach beyond Twitter to other platforms and methods.
CNBC reporter and co-anchor David Faber discusses topics including how financial journalism has changed, how he consistently breaks leading financial news stories, and how he has become a journalistic master at both breaking news and executing broad, insightful TV documentaries during his more than 25 years at the network with veteran financial journalist and NYFWA board member Greg Miles.
CNBC reporter and co-anchor David Faber has become a journalistic master at both breaking news and executing broad, insightful TV documentaries during his more than 25 years at the network. He’s broken a long list of major stories, including Disney’s purchase of most of Twenty-First Century Fox’s assets, the fraud scandal at WorldCom, and Rupert Murdoch’s bid to buy Dow Jones & Co.
Maria Aspan, a senior writer at Fortune Magazine; Julie Roginsky, co-founder of Lift Our Voices and president of Comprehensive Communications Group; and Sylvia Ann Hewlett, author of “#MeToo in the Corporate World: Power, Privilege, and the Path Forward” discuss how well news organizations have covered the issue and how some investors now regard the presence of women in key leadership spots as a deciding factor in investing in a company, among other topics.
The uproar over the fate of Twitter under billionaire Elon Musk has created uncertainty around news dissemination and tracking social media trends as vital parts of current and future news operations. This panel will offer journalists a way to shape the narrative around how media outlets are broadening their reach beyond Twitter to other platforms and methods.
Senior journalists covering the alternative investment industry, investor relations professionals and money managers weigh in on the changing nature of media coverage of hedge funds, private equity and venture capital and the different perspectives on both sides in a joint-event between the New York Alternative Investment Roundtable and the New York Financial Writers’ Association. Maneet Ahuja, a senior editor at Forbes and the founder of ICONOCLAST; Antoine Gara, a US Private and Institutional Capital Correspondent for the Financial Times; and Sara
Five years after the birth of the “MeToo” hashtag in the wake of media exposes on film mogul Harvey Weinstein and then-CBS CEO Les Moonves, what impact has the movement had on Wall Street and corporate America’s treatment of women?
