Joseph Nocera
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Joseph Nocera is an award-winning American business journalist and author. He has been a columnist for The New York Times since April 2005. Nocera is also a business commentator for NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon.
Prior to joining The New York Times, Nocera worked at Fortune from 1995 to 2005, in a variety of positions, finally as editorial director. Nocera was the "Profit Motive" columnist at GQ from 1990 to 1995, and also wrote the same column for Esquire from 1988 to 1990.
In the 1980's, Nocera was an editor at Newsweek; an executive editor of New England Monthly; and a senior editor at Texas Monthly. In the late 1970s he was also an editor at The Washington Monthly.
Nocera earned a B.S. in journalism from Boston University in 1974, and now lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Three of his Fortune articles are considered noteworthy:
- Fatal Litigation, concerning the struggle over silicon breast implants.
- The Buzz Factory, a backstage look at magazine publisher Condé Nast, and,
- Heard on the Street, an expose of the divisions within the family that controls Dow Jones, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal.
Recently, in The New York Times, Nocera wrote a column titled "Overstock's Campaign of Menace" concerning Overstock.com CEO Patrick M. Byrne and his campaign against naked short selling. In the piece, Nocera alleged that Byrne is using lawsuits and political pressure to create a hostile climate for "straight-shooter" journalists and analysts who criticize him and Overstock.com.
[edit] Awards
Nocera's 1994 book, A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class, won the the New York Public Library's 1995 Helen Bernstein Award for best non-fiction book of the year.
Nocera also won two Gerald Loeb (1993, 1996) and three Hancock (1983, 1984, 1991) awards.
[edit] Bibliography
- (1994) A Piece of The Action How The Middle Class Joined The Money Class. Simon Schuster.
