Hirsch explains how Dealbook at NY Times works

Lauren Hirsch

Russell Sherman of the Press Profiles podcast interviewed Lauren Hirsch of The New York Times, who is part of its Dealbook team, about her career and her job.

She said that the Dealbook newsletter focuses on the biggest business news of the day that corporate executives care about.

“I tend to be covering multiple story lines at once,” said Hirsch. But she said watching the news flow is “an art” where the Dealbook staff determines what might be important. “You’re just feeling out the rhythm of the news during the day,” she added.

A Dealbook “take” — which is different from how competitors are covering a story — focuses on what people in the room speaking honestly about the news and asking the questions that they want to know.

Human drama is important to drawing readers into a story, she added.

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.