JORDAN WEISSMANN Acquiring TO Cognize SLATE - S SENIOR BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT (VIDEO).
Cinque questions with Ticket ’s fourth-year byplay and economics newspaperwoman.
Jordan Weissmann is Ticket 's elder occupation and economics pressman.
I have a short work mix that I first made when I was about Seventeen and which I’ve lightly tweaked every occasionally since then. I don’t listen thereto every daybecause that would be strangebut when I’m having trouble concentrating on a piece, it puts me in the right frame of mind, rather a like a Pavlovian trigger that makes me type.
I’m a aboriginal New Yorker, which is a genteel euphemism for a “psychoneurotic crash who you should ne'er, e'er tolerate to campaign your car.” Specifically, I grew abreast a closure of the Amphetamine Westward Slope in Manhattan which, according to one of the establish’s creators, was the exemplar for Benny Street . My region has been decreased to a phalanx of faceless heights rises with a Unit Foods. But I’ll perpetually look a peculiar connector to Oscar.
And that’s the invitation that we’re extending to Slating’s fourth-year occupation and economics pressman Jordan Weissmann. who chats with us some his smartphone dependence, the challenges of beingness a generalist, and the grandness of forward-looking odontology.
Ahead Slating, I was an economics author for the Atlantic . And comparable nigh concern journalists, I rather stumbled into it. (I don’t guess thither are many wishful reporters who dwell bed at dark dream of the day they’ll gravel save the sin out of an IPO.) I was a journalism major in college. When I went off to schoolhouse in 2004, I amply expected to survey the traditional paper newsperson course of operative my way up done the subway theme ranks until, if I was golden, I either gradational to a national daily or won a Pulitzer for reporting a series on, like, financial skullduggery in the municipal waste management system. Obviously, the media world changed 96 by the time I graduated, and I’ve been lucky enough to work at some great places.
What did you do ahead Ticket ?
That’s the invitation that concludes every e-mail promulgation of a Ticket rent.
When I was younger and didn’t really have a clue what I liked, I used to order a scotch and soda whenever I went to a bar, because there's a great part in Down at the Rock-and-roll Club where Richard Hell just shouts, well, “Scotch and soda!” Plus, bartenders never looked at you funny when you asked for it, which seemed important at 21. So that's a nostalgic favorite. Now, I order, like, tiki drinks given the chance.
Really, I've fallen.
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