NY Times tech reporter Isaac writing Uber book

Mike Isaac

New York Times technology reporter Mike Isaac is writing a book about ride-sharing service company Uber that will be out in 2019, reports Peter Kafka of Recode.

Kafka writes, “Mike then explains that he’s thinking about ideas and themes that will extend beyond Uber’s story. Like, ‘Can I take lessons from the disasters that happened at Uber and say what it says about Silicon Valley — like how founders have been given total control of their companies and how that’s maybe a mistake?’

“Good start.

“Mike also points out, while not comparing himself to Andrew Ross Sorkin and Michael Lewis, that Andrew Ross Sorkin (‘Too Big to Fail’ ) and Michael Lewis (‘The Big Short’) did a great job of writing books about the 2008 financial collapse, two or three years after the fact.

“Is Uber participating? Well, they’re not not participating, since Mike is reporting about them on a day-to-day basis.

“But it’s not the kind of book that depends on full behind-the-scenes access, anyway. ‘I do have good relations with the folks there. They know it might not be the most flattering book, but I don’t think they’ll totally shut me out.'”

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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.