1/ Zachary Mider and I have been digging into a sanctions mystery: why do many ships suspected of carrying Iranian oil get their insurance from a tiny company in NYC called American Club?

🗓️ TOMORROW at 6pm ET

Zeke Faux talks the rise and fall of #crypto w/ Olivia Carville at NYU Journalism

Non-NYU guests, RSVP here:
journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/event…

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Tuesday night. NYU. Zeke Faux will share the crazy reporting journey behind Number Go Up. And I can’t wait!

Come join us at NYFWA NYU Journalism

🚨✏️🗓️Tues, Feb 6th, NYFWA is hosting one of its most exciting journalism events yet!

Zeke Faux will be joining us to talk about the wild reporting journey that led to his new 🔥crypto book (which was handed to SBF in court during cross-examination)

nyfwa.org/content/februa…

Read this🔥opus on the shadowy world of nonbank mortgage lenders and get fired up about the state of play.

⁦Kudos on a data journalism feat Ann Choi 최주연⁩, ⁦Caleb Melby⁩, ⁦Polly⁩, ⁦raeedah رَیدہ⁩, ⁦Nadia Lopez⁩ bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-…

For Businessweek, M.A. Columbia Journ alum Olivia Carville (MA Business '18) and Margi Murphy report on how a group of young women in a NYC suburb - horrified to learn their photographs had been manipulated and posted online - took matters into their own hands. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

🚨New Businessweek cover is real-world suburban horror story mixed with classic whodunnit topped off with some female empowerment in our new gen AI era 💁🏼‍♀️

It’s a maddening, twisted tale that took Margi Murphy and I into the darkest corners of the web…

🎁 link: bloomberg.com/news/features/…

many harrowing details in this story but the length one victim went to catch the perpetrator herself as NCPD's 'thorough investigation' stalled is heartbreaking

from Olivia Carville & Margi Murphy

gift link: bloomberg.com/news/features/…

By releasing open-source software, AI companies have made it easy for predators to create deepfaked sexual images of victims. This piece from Olivia Carville & @margimurphy shows how existing laws aren’t keeping anybody safe – except the perpetrators.
bloomberg.com/news/features/…

NEW:

US veterans have been stymied in talks with their mortgage companies as they attempt to exit Covid-19 forbearance programs.

They're getting hit with delinquency, damaged credit scores, and foreclosure.

w/ Polly & Ann Choi 최주연

unpaywalled here

bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Business journalists: Take your reporting further. Gain the skills to tackle bigger, more important stories. Applications are now open for the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Class of 2024-25. journalism.columbia.edu/kb

Time to work 🔥

📺 Watch live on Sky Sport NZ

Budding Journalists: Applications will open later this month for The 2024-2025 New York Times Fellowship. We are expecting thousands of applications, so now is the time to prepare your resume, cover letter and materials. Lots more information to follow in the coming days.

Fellow journos, I’ve a favor to ask.

I’m hoping you can help me spread the word about a new(ish) journalism contest, and yeah, you’re probably thinking: Do we really need another journalism contest?

This one’s different. It’s a worldwide contest, called the True Story Award.
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I'm about to host the late night talk show of my dreams.

The Businessweek Show is about money and power and culture. Our guests are Cornel West, Theaster Gates, Nadia Murad, Zaila Avant-garde, Chip Wilson and many more.

We debut next Thursday, October 12th. The trailer is here!

Teaching investigative techniques at M.A. Columbia Journ this fall. And a very special guest attended last week’s class: my mum! 🤍