How Pomplian re-imagined “The Profile”

Polina Marinova

Brad Wolverton spoke with Polina Pompliano about she reimagined “The Profile,” her newsletter about profiles.

Wolverton writes, “But it wasn’t until this year—eight years after starting The Profile—that Polina had the lightbulb moment that led to her newsletter’s recent transformation.

“She recalled how a conversation with her husband, Anthony Pompliano—himself a prolific newsletter writer—helped her imagine a new path:

“For her first piece, on Wall Street veteran Anthony Scaramucci, she dug out her reporter’s notebook and interviewed dozens of people, including the financier’s childhood friends, critics, and even an old college professor.

“Like many of the pieces she has curated over the years, the story tells the tale of a complex, flawed individual who, in her words, has an ‘uncanny ability to bounce back stronger after every implosion.'”

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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.