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Digest entry: 03/04/2023 @ 05:19 PM

Sunday 3/5 2pm - Panel on Journalism and Financial Reporting (Silvia Lorrain)

On Sunday, March 5th at 2:00 p.m. in Kresge, the Bowdoin Orient and the Polar Investment Club will be facilitating a panel discussion on careers in journalism and financial reporting with three distinguished Bowdoin alumni: Financial Journalist Andy Serwer, Business Journalist Beth Kowitt and New York Times Reporter Katie Benner. This event is open to anyone looking to learn more about journalism, its challenges and career opportunities. 

 

Speaker Bios

Andy Serwer

Andy is one of the world’s leading business journalists; he’s currently Editor at Large at Barron's, where he covers a wide range of topics. Prior to Barron's, he led Yahoo Finance’s editorial team for nearly eight years. During his tenure at Yahoo Finance, he interviewed high-profile business leaders and influencers, a short list of which includes Bill Gates, Mark Cuban, Warren Buffett, Carl Ichan, Meg Whitman, Sheryl Sandberg, Jamie Dimon and David Solomon, as well as economic policy leaders such as Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Former FDIC Chief Sheila Bair. 

 

Before Yahoo Finance, Andy spent 29 years with Fortune Magazine, rising to the position of managing editor, a position he held for 8 years—the longest service of any editor since the 1980s. He was also the business news anchor of CNN’s American Morning from 2000-2006 and has been a regular guest on MSNBC’S Morning Joe and CNBC’s Squawkbox. From 1997 through 2006, Serwer wrote the groundbreaking business news blog, “Streetlife,” one of the first daily digital newsletters covering the world of finance and business. Iconoclastic, irreverent and widely read, “Streetlife” influenced an entire generation of digital journalists. Andy is the 2020 winner of the Elliott V. Bell Award for financial journalism

 

Katie Benner

Katie Benner covers the Justice Department for The New York Times, and she was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for public service for reporting on workplace sexual harassment issues. She has worked in The Times' San Francisco Bureau covering Apple, venture capital and startups. She helped steer the paper's coverage of the encryption fight between Apple and the FBI and investigated how tech employees chasing the Silicon Valley dream are short-changed by executives and investors. Most recently she's written about sexual harassment in the tech industry and the legal contracts used to keep that behavior a secret. Before coming to The Times, Katie was a tech columnist at Bloomberg. She also spent nearly a decade at Fortune, where she covered financial markets, private equity and hedge funds. Her work includes profiles of Hank Paulson, Robert Shiller and Reid Hoffman as well as features on the 2008 financial crisis and financial fraud investigations.

 

Beth Kowitt

Beth is currently a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering corporate America. Prior to Bloomberg, Beth was a senior editor at Fortune, where she wrote features primarily on management and leadership issues, the business of food, consumer behavior, sustainability and race and gender. Her writing has received multiple awards, including several SABEW Best in Business and New York Press Club honors. She also co-edited Fortune's annual Most Powerful Women franchise and was a co-chair of Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit, MPW Next Gen and the Fortune/U.S. Department of State Global Women’s Mentoring Partnership. Beth is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.