The Best Business Writing 2012
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Publisher Description
An anthology Malcolm Gladwell has called "riveting and indispensable," The Best Business Writing is a far-ranging survey of business's dynamic relationship with politics, culture, and life. This year's selections include John Markoff (New York Times) on innovations in robot technology and the decline of the factory worker; Evgeny Morozov (New Republic) on the questionable value of the popular TED conference series and the idea industry behind it; Paul Kiel (ProPublica) on the ripple effects of the ongoing foreclosure crisis; and the infamous op-ed by Greg Smith, published in the New York Times, announcing his break with Goldman Sachs over its trading practices and corrupt corporate ethos.
Jessica Pressler (New York) delves into the personal and professional rivalry between former spouses and fashion competitors Tory and Christopher Burch. Peter Whoriskey (Washington Post) exposes the human cost of promoting pharmaceuticals for off-label uses. Charles Duhigg and David Barboza (New York Times) investigate Apple's unethical labor practices in China. Max Abelson (Bloomberg) reports on Wall Street's amusing reaction to the diminishing annual bonus. Mina Kimes (Fortune) recounts the grisly story of a company's illegal testing—and misuse—of a medical device for profit, and Jeff Tietz (Rolling Stone) composes one of the most poignant and comprehensive portraits of the financial crisis's dissolution of the American middle class.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The current economic environment has been characterized by extreme financial turmoil, rapid change, and severe violations of public trust, all of which have created a heyday for the global press. In what will become an annual exercise to showcase the most insightful coverage from this fertile era, the editors of the Columbia Journalism Review have selected those pieces deemed the most compelling or rigorous business writings of the year. Drawing from newspapers as varied as the New York Times and Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, magazines ranging from Fortune to Rolling Stone, and blogs such as the Huffington Post and Motley Fool, this compendium represents a riveting cross-section of hard-hitting investigative journalism, press criticism, and even a hilarious piece on phone hacking by English actor Hugh Grant. While many pieces focus on the financial meltdown including Michael Hudson's damning account of how Countrywide protected fraudsters others present poignant examinations of the intersection of business failure and humanity, like Raquel Rutledge and Rick Barrett's award-winning piece, "A Case of Shattered Trust," which describes a child's preventable death caused by bacteria-laden products from a firm under investigation by the FDA. The breadth, depth, and quality of writing are sure to engage a diversity of readers regardless of their affiliations with economics or finance.
