New York Occasions enterprise editor Ellen Pollock despatched out the next on Tuesday:
We’re delighted to welcome Kirsten Grind to The New York Occasions. She begins later this month as a tech investigations reporter in San Francisco.
Kirsten joins from The Wall Avenue Journal, the place she was an enterprise reporter. In her 12 years at The Journal, Kirsten routinely uncovered suspect habits, wrongdoing and raised questions on a few of the strongest gamers in tech and finance. She reported and wrote tales on Elon Musk’s drug use and his transformation of Twitter to X, delved into office points at Activision Blizzard, chronicled the troubled lifetime of Zappos chief govt Tony Hsieh, laid out the downfall of onetime bond king Invoice Gross at Pimco and extra.
Nurturing sources to impart info is just not simple within the tight-knit tech and finance industries, however Kirsten is thought for her persistence and unflappability. Jessica Silver-Greenberg, an investigative reporter in Enterprise who labored with Kirsten at The Journal, mentioned that Kirsten was all the time reporting.
“When she was principally 10 months pregnant, I referred to as her, absolutely anticipating that she’d be sitting on the sofa consuming ice cream,” Jessica recalled. “As a substitute, she was within the parking zone of Pimco, the place she was chasing down workers to show the downfall of the bond supervisor.”
Kirsten, a San Diego native, graduated from Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, Calif., the place she was the managing editor of the varsity paper, Mustang Day by day. Earlier than The Journal, she labored at native papers together with The Pueblo Chieftain and Fort Collins Coloradoan in Colorado, The Puget Sound Enterprise Journal in Seattle and The Seattle Occasions.
She was a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist and has acquired greater than a dozen nationwide awards for her work, together with a Gerald Loeb Award. She wrote the ebook “The Misplaced Financial institution,” in regards to the collapse of Washington Mutual in the course of the 2008 monetary disaster, and was the co-author of “Joyful at Any Price: The Revolutionary Imaginative and prescient and Deadly Quest of Zappos C.E.O. Tony Hsieh.”
Please welcome her to The Occasions.