Categories: OLD Media Moves

Miss the Financial Follies? You're in luck

One of the highlights — or lowlights depending on your perspective — about being a business journalist in New York is attending the annual Financial Follies dinner held by The New York Financial Writers’ Association. This year, they were held on Nov. 16.

In case you missed the big event, here’s a video tour of the vast Bloomberg News operation in New York that was shown at the Follies:

As a former Bloomberg employee, my favorite parts of this video are the employee fishing in the tank, the “hording” of snacks that probably drives chairman Peter Grauer up the wall, and the guy running into the glass wall.

As I told the Bloomberg editorial staff member who sent this to me, you have to have worked there to understand a lot of the humor in this video.

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.