Lauren Etter
@lauren_etter
Reporter @ Bloomberg News, previously @ WSJ, author of The Devil's Playbook: Big Tobacco, Juul, and the Addiction of a New Generation
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https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/654419/the-devils-playbook-by-lauren-etter/ 04-12-2014 03:45:04
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Latest Bloomberg Graphics collab with Bloomberg Green and Bloomberg Markets (and first of a series on who owns the world's water)
Banks, pension funds and insurers have been turning California's scarce water into enormous profits leaving people with less to drink. bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-…
My first Businessweek cover story! Thrilled I got to work on this absolutely bonkers investigative story (and the DiCaprio & Kardashian sidebar) with amazing colleagues Matthew Campbell & Anthony Cormier
Feel like I've spent every waking hour of 2023 working on this insane Businessweek cover story with the brilliant Jason Leopold & Anthony Cormier. It's a wild tale of money, celebrity, political intrigue, and great-power rivalry, and I hope you'll read it. bloomberg.com/features/2023-…
New from @vtsilver Lauren Etter Patricia Laya from deep inside the European cocaine boom. This small Dutch town was terrorized after fruit company workers found 400 kilos in a banana shipment trib.al/6yzIEl6
Shipping is a dirty business, as I know better than most. Still gobsmacked by this extraordinary investigation by Lauren Etter and Michael Riley. Astounding work. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
Hell of an investigation by Lauren Etter Michael Riley
How a Cocaine-Smuggling Cartel Infiltrated the World’s Biggest Shipping Company
As MSC grew into a dominant force in global trade, it also became a prime drug-trafficking conduit for Balkan gangs
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Today is the culmination of 5 years of work by Kit Chellel and I: pub day for Dead in the Water, our account of fraud, murder, and corruption at the heart of the global economy. It's the hardest thing either of us has ever done, and a ripping story. I hope you'll read it!
My latest for Businessweek investigates the elite international school industry. One in which schools request 'White Only' teachers and job candidates are filtered by skin color. A thread--> bloomberg.com/news/features/… via Businessweek
My latest: Sanctions are punishing Russia’s wealthiest—and Putin himself—by bringing a cold, hard stop to 30 years of integration with the world economy bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Businessweek
According to its mission statement, Juul 🧉 prioritizes saving lives by getting smokers to switch to their product. In Episode 3 of Calling Bullsh!t, we cut through the smoke with Gregory Conley, @Lauren_etter, and Jamie Ducharme. Calling Bullsh!t is out now at bit.ly/JuulBlowingSmo…
Great show, thanks for having me on! And super interesting to also hear from Jamie Ducharme and Gregory Conley.
ICYMI: Misinformation and hate have already made it to the Metaverse. Will its creators be able to control it? w/ Jillian Deutsch & Sarah Kopit
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