Journalists love writing books. When being interviewed by them, it pays to know if they’ve written a book in the past – knowledge is power, and everyone loves a little flattery.
Similarly, it’s useful to know what they are writing right now. They may well be thinking about that book as much as the article for the day job they’re interviewing you for. You could, for better or worse, end up in their book.
Here are 20 business and financial journalists writing books at present. No doubt there are some prestigious ones I’ve failed to spot. There is no comprehensive database on this to my knowledge, though Amazon and publishers (and Twitter) are helpful.
Some journalists have confirmed release dates and you can find the titles on Amazon, others are simple assertions on their profiles that they are “writing a book”. Good luck to them all. Not surprisingly, there’s a fair bit on climate related titles here, and some Covid. My sense is less fintech than at one time.
In rough order of likely publication:
Alice Ross, Financial Times
5 November 2020
Max Chafkin, Bloomberg Businessweek
14th January 2021
Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrel
The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
May 4th 2021
Billy Kenber, The Times (London)
Sick Money – the Truth about the Global Pharmaceutical Industry
6th May 2021
Robin Wigglesworth, Financial Times
Passive Attack – The Story of a Wall Street Revolution
24 June 2021
Elliott Morris, The Economist
Writing a book on polls and democracy to be published by WW Norton
Fall 2021
Jason Del Rey, Recode
Writing a book on Amazon and Walmart to be published by Harper Business
John Koblin, New York Times
Writing a book about the history of HBO
Nick Kostov, Wall Street Journal
Writing a book about Carlos Ghosn
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Axios
Writing a book on China for HarperCollins
Liz Hoffman, Wall Street Journal
Writing a book on the Covid economic shutdown
Akshat Rathi, Bloomberg
Writing a book on scaling climate solutions
Brendan Greeley, FT
Writing a book on the dollar, to be published by Crown Publishing
Rachel Wolfson, Coin Telegraph
Writing a book on enterprise blockchain
Katherine Clarke, Wall Street Journal
Race to the Sky – book on NY’s billionaire’s row
Simon Mundy, freelance (ex Financial Times)
Writing a book on “the global race to respond to climate change”
Chris Stokel-Walker, freelancer, author of YouTubers
TikTok, China and the Superpower Battle for Social Media
Christopher Mims, Wall Street Journal
Writing a book “On how things get from the factory to the front door”
Andrew Marshall is a voracious reader and Cognito's vice chairman