Andy Shain, the business editor of The State in Columbia, S.C., writes Friday about Michelle Leder, the business journalist who founded Footnoted.org.
“Leder lost her newspaper job via e-mail while traveling in New Zealand about a decade ago. But she found success in a skill she learned in newsrooms — burrowing through the arcane, dense pages of Securities and Exchange filings.
“The paperwork contains what she called ‘non-disclosure disclosures’ about company decisions, spending and warnings.
“Her interest flared after her own investment in Qwest shares soured. Leder said her post-mortem examination of the company’s filings showed some red flags that, if spotted sooner, would have led her to sell her stock.”
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