NY Times biz reporter Popper is departing

Nathaniel Popper

New York Times business reporter Nathaniel Popper is leaving the news organization after nearly 10 years.

“First up, I’ll be finishing my book on WallStreetBets and the rise of retail investing for HarperCollins,” he wrote on LinkedIn. “I’m also co-producing a documentary on a similar theme, The ‘Meme Economy,’ with the fine folks at Optimist Films.”

The book will be told from the perspectives of old-guard hedge funds, social media influences, and the hordes of digitally native young traders, along with the tech founders whose apps made the “big long” possible.

Popper will also be a writer in residence at the Cal-Berkeley Department of Computer Science this coming semester.

Popper writes about technology and finance for the Times. He is the author of “Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money.”

He has been with the Times since March 2012 and previously was with the Los Angeles Times.

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.