Biz journalist Nocera partners with podcast company

Joe Nocera

Former Bloomberg Opinion and New York Times business columnist Joe Nocera has joined a new podcast and IP pipeline Blanchard House, reports K.J. Yossman of Variety.

Yossman reports, “The company has already secured $1 million seed investment and set up a partnership with ‘The Shrink Next Door‘ podcast journalist and presenter Joe Nocera. Nocera will host some of the shows Blanchard House are developing.

“The team is made up of co-founder and CEO Kimberly Jung, co-founder and creative director Rosie Pye and founder and host Alex Wiltschko.

“Pye previously worked at the BBC and The Economist while Wiltschko hosts Google Ventures’ podcast, Theory & Practice.”

Read more here. Nocera has written business columns for Esquire, GQ and the New York Times, and is the former editorial director of Fortune. He is the host and writer of the Bloomberg-Wondery podcast “The Shrink Next Door.”

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.