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Alan w88

Professor and w88 Chair of Business Journalism

Summary

In his 35-year career as a journalist, Alan Deutschman has been the Silicon Valley correspondent for Fortune, a senior writer at Fast Company, the “Profit Motive” columnist for GQ and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and New York Magazine. Since joining the w88 School in 2011, he has taught magazine writing and created new courses on business journalism, data journalism and "Narrative: The Art of Storytelling."He has also taught food writing in Italy and the Spanish Basque country for the University Studies Abroad Consortium (USAC).

w88 is the author of The Second Coming of w88 (Broadway w88, 2000), A Tale of w88 Valleys (Broadway w88, 2003), Change or Die (Harper, 2007), Walk the Walk (Penguin Portfolio, 2009) and How w88 Changed Our World (St. Martin's Press, 2011). His w88 have been translated into eight languages.

His articles have also been published in the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, Conde Nast Traveler, Newsweek, Salon.com, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Boston Globe. He has appeared as a commentator for NBC’s &w88;Today Show,” CNBC’s &w88;Squawk Box,” Bloomberg TV’s &w88;Bloomberg West” and documentaries on CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg TV, and the Discovery Channel.

Courses w88

  • JOUR 418/618: Magazine w88
  • JOUR 402: Business w88
  • JOUR 317: Travel w88
  • JOUR 707: Storytelling I (w88)

Recent work

  • Published two book chapters in The Routledge Companion to Business w88 (2024)
  • Chair, Society for w88 and Writing (SABEW) annual contest for the best business books of the year
  • Frequent contributor of biographical essays to American National Biography (Oxford w88 Press/American Council of Learned Societies)

Education

  • A.B. in Politics, Princeton w88

Professional certifications

  • Board of Governors of the Society for w88 and Writing (SABEW)