Mentoring Program
Welcome to the mentorship page for NYU’s Business and Economic Reporting program!
We believe that our students will benefit greatly from relationships with outstanding journalists as they seek to create their own paths in the world of business journalism. We view this mentorship program as a valuable tool to help BER students connect with accomplished professionals for advice on their journalism education and their careers.
Each of our mentors is a distinguished graduate of the BER program.
Doyinsola Oladipo
BER Mentorship Coordinator
Doyinsola Oladipo joined the New York University team as the Business and Economic Reporting mentorship coordinator in the Fall of 2023. She is a graduate of the BER class of ’22 and currently works at Reuters News as a company news reporter where she covers some of the world’s largest travel and leisure companies including Booking Holdings, Airbnb and Marriott. During her time in the program, she interned at CNN International, Bloomberg, and Reuters in Washington D.C. and in Dubai, UAE. Doyinsola was a recipient of the NABJ – Reuters Fellowship, NYU’s Majorie Dean Scholarship and was an Overseas Press Club Foundation Award winner. She graduated from Tufts University in 2018 with a bachelor’s in International Relations.
BER Mentors
Giovanna Bellotti Azevedo
Bloomberg News
Giovanna Bellotti Azevedo (BER 20) is a reporter at Bloomberg News covering emerging markets, based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Giovanna reports on Latin American credit, equities and currencies, with a focus on Brazil. Before she made the decision to move back to her native Brazil to break news on financial markets, she worked as an editor at Euromoney’s Inside P&C product in New York. She has also worked as a distressed debt and restructuring reporter for Debtwire North America. During her time at BER, Giovanna interned for Bloomberg on the DC Breaking News desk. In addition to her MA in Business and Economic Reporting from NYU, she holds an undergraduate degree in international politics from Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. She has full professional proficiency in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French and is happy to share her experience on building an international career.
John Biggs
John Biggs is an entrepreneur, consultant, writer, and maker. He spent fifteen years as an editor for Gizmodo, CrunchGear, and TechCrunch and has a deep background in hardware startups, 3D printing, and blockchain. His work has appeared in Men’s Health, Wired, and the New York Times.
He has written nine books including the best book on blogging, Bloggers Boot Camp, and a book about the most expensive timepiece ever made, Marie Antoinette’s Watch. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
He runs the Keep Going podcast, a podcast about failure. His goal is to share how even the most confident and successful people had to face adversity.
Jarrell Dillard
Bloomberg News
Jarrell Dillard is the newest reporter on the Congress team at Bloomberg News. He is starting on a new beat covering congressional progressives and progressive policy. Jarrell began at Bloomberg as an intern in the summer of 2019, when he had his first taste of reporting from Capitol Hill. From that internship, he proceeded to New York University for a master’s degree in business and economic journalism while simultaneously rotating on the Bloomberg equities, breaking news, digital and economy teams. He completed his master’s program in December 2020.
Alexandra Garfinkle
Yahoo Finance
Alexandra Garfinkle is a Senior Tech Reporter for Yahoo Finance. Previously, she worked at Financial Times Specialist, The Deal, and Forbes. She’s a graduate of The University of Chicago and New York University, and is based in Los Angeles.
John Hyatt
Forbes
John Hyatt is a senior wealth reporter at Forbes, where he writes about billionaires, their companies and contribute to lists like the Forbes 400 and World’s Billionaires lists. He graduated from BER in 2022 and interned for Forbes while completing his studies. He previously wrote a weekly financial column for Nasdaq, covering everything from publicly traded companies and global macroeconomic trends to cryptocurrencies and meme stocks. Before that, he worked in financial comms. He is drawn to long-form journalism with an investigative bent, especially those involving high-finance, global affairs and power politics.
John Kapetaneas
ABC News
John Kapetaneas is a national Emmy, Edward R. Murrow, and Deadline award winning journalist and television producer for ABC News. Reporting for ABC News since 2011 and Nightline since 2015, his work has brought him face-to-face with brutal warlords in Chechnya, human traffickers in Cambodia, and outlaw hackers in Romania. His multi-year series, “Beyond the Bucket”, about the plight of patients battling Lou Gehrig’s Disease since 2014’s viral Ice Bucket Challenge, was nominated for Best Feature Story at the News and Documentary Emmy Awards.
John graduated from NYU as part of BER-14. He received his B.A. in Economics from the University of Connecticut.
Mrinalini Krishna
Investopedia
Mrinalini is the Senior Editor of investing news at Investopedia, with 10+ years of financial journalism experience across two continents and different media. She is passionate about creating comprehensive and usable financial content. Previously, she worked with organizations such as Financial Times, Forbes, The Balance, and CNBC TV18. Mrinalini holds a master’s in business and economic reporting from New York University and a bachelor’s with honors in economics from the University of Delhi, India.
Katie Lobosco
CNN
Katie Lobosco is a BER 14 alumna. She writes for CNN Politics, focusing on how economic policy decisions made in Washington affect people across the country. Previously, she covered personal finance for CNN Business, including the impacts of the 2017 federal tax reform, the massive Equifax data breach, and how Americans are struggling to pay down their student debt.
Before joining CNN in 2013, Lobosco was a reporter for a local New Jersey newspaper, The Coast Star. She earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Gettysburg College.
Chris Matthews
MarketWatch
Chris Matthews is a reporter at MarketWatch covering the intersection of policy, the economy and markets. He previously held staff positions at Axios, Fortune and Time Magazines. He earned his masters at NYU’s BER-12 program and an undergraduate degree from the George Washington University. Chris lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and two children.
Anders Melin
Bloomberg News
Anders covers billionaires and wealth for Bloomberg News in Kuala Lumpur, specializing in rich people’s questionable business dealings. Previously he worked at The Deal, Reuters and CNN. He graduated from the BER program in 2013.
Matthew G. Miller
Bloomberg News
Matthew G. Miller is a senior executive editor for Bloomberg News, where he’s responsible for global newsroom operations on weekends. He’s the co-creator of Bloomberg Daybreak, the company’s signature mobile news product, and Bloomberg Billionaires, a daily ranking of the world’s richest people. His first clip was for the Washington Square News about Greenwich Village businesses following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He graduated from NYU’s Business and Economic Reporting program in 2002.
Chibuike Oguh
Reuters
Chibuike Oguh (BER 19) is a Reuters reporter covering the biggest U.S. private equity firms, including Blackstone Group, Apollo Global Management, and KKR & Co Inc. He has worked for Bloomberg News in New York and Washington D.C. covering oil and gas, U.S. economy and government indicators, and D.C. breaking news. He began his career in Nigeria and worked as an analyst for Financial Nigeria magazine. He holds master’s degrees from Edinburgh Napier University and New York University.
Marta Orosz
ZDF German public broadcaster
Marta Orosz is a reporter for the investigative magazine of ZDF, Germany’s most watched TV channel. She is currently covering stories on sanction breaches, financial crime and corporate wrongdoing. Previously she worked as a banking and finance correspondent with Reuters in Berlin and Frankfurt and covered stories on finance, wealth and taxation. Before returning to Europe, she worked with the Forbes US wealth team covering billionaire investors of a biotech company developing the covid-19 vaccine. Marta was also project lead of a cross-border investigation on tax fraud coordinating 35 newsrooms in 30 countries. Her work was awarded with numerous journalism awards.
Marta studied journalism and english in Budapest, Hungary and graduated the BER master´s program in 2020. She was awarded the Overseas Press Club Scholar´s Award and the New York Financial Writers´Association Scholarship. She speaks German, Hungarian and Romanian and just enough Italian to help her read court documents.
David Pan
Bloomberg
David Pan is a financial journalist at Bloomberg covering cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. He previously worked for Coindesk. David has also covered topics ranging from the mass adoption of cryptocurrency in the traditional financial services industry, crypto’s impacts on the global financial system and the rise of DOGE.
He graduated from BER in December 2018 and from Renmin University of China in 2017. David was an avid debater in college and won the first prize in the national competition.
Prarthana Prakash
Fortune Magazine
Prarthana Prakash joined the BER ‘23 cohort after completing her undergraduate studies in Singapore. During the program, she interned at Bloomberg and Fortune Magazine in New York. She also won the Overseas Press Club Foundation Jerry Flint Fellowship in 2022 for writing about India’s burgeoning market of lab-grown diamonds. Prarthana is now based in London, where she works as Fortune’s European Business Reporter, covering the region’s biggest companies across industries like retail and luxury.
Matt Quinn
Matt Quinn was most recently a senior editor for CNN Business, guiding the digital outlet’s Technology coverage.
Prior to joining CNN, Matt led tech coverage at global business news site Quartz, after serving as executive editor of Ad Age and a founding editor of the Wall Street Journal’s CFO Journal.
He’s won awards from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing and the Jesse H. Neal Awards, among others, both as an individual and as part of teams.
He holds a BA in Economics from the College of the Holy Cross and a Master’s from NYU’s Business and Economics Reporting program. He began his career as a financial analyst in the publishing industry.
Matt grew up just outside Philadelphia and currently lives in the Bay Area with his wife, son and too many pets after more than 15 years in New York.
Anita Ramaswamy
The Information
I’m a financial analysis columnist at The Information. I primarily write about publicly-listed companies in tech, from behemoths such as Microsoft and Google to software firms such as Salesforce and Workday. My work involves talking to investors and analysts and diving deep into a company’s financial statements to uncover unexpected insights. Unlike with a news story, my columns always express a point of view on a company’s valuation, strategy, positioning or prospects that’s backed by numbers.
Anna Russi
9fin
Anna Russi (BER 24) is a private credit reporter at 9fin, a data, news and predictive analytics platform for debt capital markets. Anna is based in New York City, and reports on the US private credit market from the investor, to the lender, to the borrower and deal coverage. During her time at BER, Anna interned with Financial Times Specialist, covering the property and casualty insurance industry. Before coming to New York, Anna was a reporter for CNN Brasil, covering fiscal and monetary policy in the capital Brasília. She has also worked as an economic policy reporter for Correio Braziliense and Poder360. In addition to her MA in Business and Economic Reporting from NYU, she holds a BA degree in journalism from UniCeub in Brasília, Brazil. She has full professional proficiency in Portuguese and English, and intermediary Spanish.
Paula Seligson
Bloomberg News
Paula Seligson is a financial journalist at Bloomberg News and covers corporate debt markets. She has reported about topics ranging from companies using bonds and loans to raise liquidity during the Covid-19 pandemic to the impact of higher debt levels on the economy.
She graduated from BER in December 2017 and from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2013 and lives in New York City. She has previously worked at Debtwire, UNC, and The Smithfield Herald and got her start in journalism at The Daily Tar Heel.
Tatiana Serafin
Marymount Manhattan College
Caleb Silver
Editor in Chief, Investopedia
Caleb began his career producing wildlife documentaries in South America and the American southwest. His career in business news began at Bloomberg, where he worked as a senior television producer and was nominated for a 2003 Emmy Award.
Caleb then joined CNN, serving as a Senior Producer for The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, as well as the Executive Producer of CNNMoney.com. Caleb and his team at CNNMoney were nominated for an Emmy Award for New Approaches to Business & Financial Reporting. He then returned to CNN as the Director of US business news.
Caleb left CNN in 2014 to form Frog Pond Productions, a digital production and consulting company, and then joined Investopedia in January 2016 as the VP of Content. He also serves as the treasurer of the executive board of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing.
Caleb is frequently featured as a markets, economic and consumer trends expert on NBC, MSNBC, ABC Radio, Marketplace Radio and Cheddar TV, in addition to markets commentary in his daily newsletters.
Caleb received his Bachelor of Arts in art and art history from Colgate University, and received his Master of Arts in journalism at New York University.
Daniela Sirtori-Cortina
Bloomberg News
Daniela Sirtori-Cortina joined Bloomberg News as a reporter after graduating from NYU’s Business and Economic Reporting Program in December 2020. Before returning to school, she worked as a reporter for two years at the New York City bureau of British financial publication Citywire, a role in which she broke stories on local and international financial firms operating in Latin America. Daniela also tracked the fortunes of the world’s richest people for nine months as an intern at Forbes.
In addition, her work has appeared in The Buffalo News, CNN Business and the Columbia Missourian. A citizen of Colombia, Daniela is fluent in Spanish and English, conversational in French and is working on her Portuguese. She’s a 2016 graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism and cheers on the Tigers from afar.
Marc Stewart
CNN
Marc Stewart is an international correspondent based at CNN’s bureau in Beijing, reporting across the network’s television and digital platforms.
Most recently, he was at CNN’s bureaus in Tokyo and Hong Kong where he has reported on some of the region’s biggest stories including the 2023 G7 summit in Hiroshima, the lifting of COVID restrictions in China and the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan where he was given rare access to the facility. In recent months, Stewart has conducted one-on-one interviews with Japan’s Foreign Minister, the United States Ambassador to Japan and the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. In addition, he profiled China’s first Formula One driver, Zhou Guanyu while on the race circuit in Austin, Texas.
Stewart also serves as a co-host of CNN’s Marketplace Asia. The monthly program looks at business trends and innovations across the region. Stewart has interviewed CEO’s and leaders from many prominent companies such as Samsung, Mazda, All Nippon Airways and Suntory Holdings Limited. Stewart has also spent time in New York reporting global financial markets, economic issues and business-related topics for CNN This Morning, The Lead with Jake Tapper and other international and domestic broadcasts.
Before joining CNN in 2022, Stewart worked for the Wall Street Journal in London where he hosted its flagship morning podcast, ‘What’s News’, which looked at the news of the day through a business lens. Prior to this, he reported for ABC News in New York, appeared on Yahoo Finance’s video streaming service, and contributed regularly to the aviation-focused publication ‘The Points Guy’.He has also reported from several countries in the Asia Pacific region during his career, including China, India, North and South Korea, and Singapore, and was selected for international reporting fellowships from the East West Center.
Stewart started his career in journalism as a news anchor and reporter in cities across the United States including Denver and Nashville. He has a master’s degree in business and economic journalism as part of a joint program at New York University’s Stern Business School and the journalism department. Stewart also holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Michigan State University.
Sui-Lee Wee
The New York Times
Sui-Lee Wee is a China correspondent for The New York Times. She has covered China since 2010, focusing on health care, gender and demographics. She was part of a team that was a 2020 Pulitzer finalist in international reporting for a series of stories that exposed China’s human rights abuses in the region of Xinjiang. She has broken stories on the Chinese government’s use of DNA surveillance against the country’s Uighur Muslim minority. She has reported on a three-part series exploring the dysfunctions in China’s health care system, which was recognized as a 2019 finalist in the public service category by the Society of Publishers in Asia.
Previously, Ms. Wee was a correspondent at Reuters, where she worked for nearly nine years, based in Singapore, Hong Kong and Beijing. She was part of a team that won an Overseas Press Club award in 2016 for “The Long Arm of China,” a series that looked at China extending its influence across its borders.
A native of Singapore, she received a bachelor’s degree in communication studies from the Nanyang Technological University and a master’s degree in business and economic reporting from New York University through a fellowship with The Wall Street Journal.
Lingling Wei
The Wall Street Journal
Lingling Wei is the chief China correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. Her 2020 book, “Superpower Showdown,” with Bob Davis, tells the inside story of the U.S.-China trade and economic stand-off.
Hailing from a farm province in southeastern China, Lingling has a M.A. in journalism from N.Y.U.’s BER program. She came of age as a journalist in New York in the early 2000s and returned to China in early 2011 to report on changes in her homeland. From then until 2020, when China expelled Journal reporters including Lingling, she had covered all aspects of China’s economy, its opaque policy-making process and key decision-makers.
Currently living in New York, Lingling continues to write about China’s political economy, focusing on the intersection of business and politics. She’s won many awards over the years for her China coverage. In 2021, She’s among a team of Wall Street Journal reporters and editors whose work was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Yifan Yu
Nikkei Asia
Yifan Yu is an award-winning bilingual journalist currently covering technology for Nikkei Asia in Silicon Valley. As the US Tech Correspondent, she writes about cross-border tech companies with a special focus on Asia. Previously, Yifan worked as a leveraged finance reporter for Debtwire, covering the US credit market. She has also reported for Dow Jones in New York and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong.