NY Times biz reporter Flitter’s beat moves to other financial firms

New York Times banking reporter Emily Flitter is expanding her beat to cover other financial firms and their impact on society.

“There’s no doubt we live in interesting times,” she wrote on Twitter. “I’ll be looking at issues of racism, the question for equality, the effects of innovation and more.”

Flitter has been working on a book on racism in the financial system. The book, which does not yet have a title or a release date, will be published by One Signal, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

Flitter has been at the Times since late 2017. She previously worked at Reuters, where she covered everything from the Treasury market and the Trump campaign to climate change policy and big agribusiness.

She previously did stints at Barron’s Online, WSJ.com and American Banker, and covered white-collar crime for three years.

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.