Outside Event: Prof. Joe Nocera
Joint Event with Columbia School of Journalism
Evening Speaker: Joseph Nocera, Business Columnist New York Times (and adjunct prof at the J-School)
when: Thursday, November 16, 6:30 – 8PM
where: Warren Hall
contact: Kara Keenan at kk2258@columbia.edu
Students are welcome to participate in an evening speaker event on Thursday, November 16 in Warren Hall from 6:30 – 8PM. Mr. Nocero will be prepared to answer students’ questions.
Joseph Nocera is a business columnist for The New York Times, and a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, specializing in business stories. Prior to joining the Times this past April, Nocera spent 10 years at Fortune Magazine, where he held a variety of positions, including contributing writer, editor-at-large and executive editor. His last position at Fortune was editorial director.
Joseph Nocera. Some of his most acclaimed feature stories in Fortune include “Fatal Litigation,” his account of the battle between plaintiff’s lawyers and Dow Corning over the silicon breast implants; “The Buzz Factory,” an inside look at the business of Conde Nast; and “Heard on the Street”, the story that first exposed the rift in the family that owns the majority stake in Dow Jones. Nocera’s coverage of the Microsoft antitrust trial was also widely praised. Nocera has won two Gerald Loeb awards and three John Hancock awards for excellence in business journalism. His 1994 book, “A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class,” won the New York Public Library’s 1995 Helen Bernstein Award as the best non-fiction book of the year. He anchored the 1997 Frontline documentary, “Betting on the Market,” which aired on PBS, and, in 2003, edited “The Smartest Guys in the Room,” the best-selling book about Enron written by two Fortune senior writers.
Nocera was the Profit Motive columnist at GQ until May 1995 and he wrote the same column for Esquire from 1988 to 1990. In the 1980’s, he served as a contributing editor at Newsweek; as executive editor of New England Monthly; and as senior editor at Texas Monthly. From 1978 to 1980 he was an editor at The Washington Monthly. In addition to his work at the Times, Nocera serves as a regular business commentator for NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon.
Nocera earned a B.S. in journalism from Boston University in 1974. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts with his wife and their three children.
