Laura Shin was among the first financial journalists to cover crypto full-time and was best known as the host of Unchained, a rare fact-based weekly podcast on the subject.

But it was on February 2, 2022 that her biggest story appeared in the print version of Forbes. She figured out who she alleges hacked The DAO in 2016.

In honor of our beloved board member Claudia Deutsch, the New York Financial Writers' Association is hosting a virtual event with some of the most renowned women in business journalism in New York City. Join us on the evening of April 19th as we remember Claudia, a formidable financial reporter who blazed her own trail at The New York Times. Back in the '70s, when Claudia started her career, female business writers were discouraged from using their own names on bylines, lest it turn off male readers. And NYFWA was a male-only association.

The Russia-Ukraine war has become just as much an economic war as a military conflict. The New York Financial Writers’ Association will explore how journalists cover the economic and financial effects of the war with a panel of top business reporters covering the conflict. The panel will discuss the difficulties in covering how sanctions are affecting Russia, Ukraine and the rest of the world.

Longtime and beloved New York Financial Writers' Association member Claudia Deutsch lost her battle with esophageal cancer on January 13, 2022. In honor of her years of devotion to our organization, and the many relationships she had with so many of us, the NYFWA invites you to an evening to remember Claudia.

Leonard Sloane, who turned 90 in January, is a New York institution. He's been covering business and finance since the 1950s. He covered personal finance for decades for The New York Times and has recently been freelancing for the Wall Street Journal.

To celebrate Len's 90th birthday the NYFWA is putting on a professional development event featuring Len in conversation with four more of the best personal finance journalists in New York. Learn their tricks by signing up for our Zoom panel 

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Join members and friends of the New York Financial Writers’ Association for a special webinar on February 9th to honor 2021's recipients of the Impact Award for Distinguished Financial Journalism, Michael Smith and Nacha Cattan of Bloomberg News, and former Bloomberg News editor Cam Simpson. The trio of journalists were chosen as award winners for their investigative reporting that exposed how leading U.S.