WSJ reporters sign contract to write WeWork book

Wall Street Journal reporters Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell have signed a contract with a Random House imprint to write a book about WeWork, reports Kia Kokalitcheva of Axios.

Kokalitcheva writes, “The growing influence of technology companies on the world has made them not only the subjects of regulatory and investor scrutiny, but now also the focus of grand business narratives.

“The intrigue: There’s already been a string of books about tech companies’ troubles and tensions, from John Carreyrou’s ‘Bad Blood’ (about Theranos) to Mike Isaac’s ‘Super Pumped’ (about Uber). Brown tells Axios there’s room for more.

“‘[The story of WeWork] tells us a lot about Silicon Valley in the past decade, as well as a chunk of global finance,’ says Brown, adding that he views the company as part of Silicon Valley even though it’s based in New York because ‘its funding sources and the way it marketed itself were all in line with Silicon Valley startups.'”

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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.