DAVID S. JOACHIM
Journalist and Educator

I am a journalist whose career has spanned the U.S. power centers of Silicon Valley, Washington and Wall Street.

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These days I teach news writing and editing as a professor of practice in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State University.

 

I came to Penn State from Bloomberg News, where I conceived, wrote and edited explainers on complex topics as a senior editor on the Bloomberg Explains team. Before that, I helped run the home page on Bloomberg’s digital platforms. I spent the previous five years editing investigative projects and legal news.

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I was also an editor and reporter at The New York Times for more than a decade, covering Wall Street and Washington.

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I covered information technology in the early days of the Internet explosion and taught journalism at George Washington University and Fordham University.

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I’m a graduate of Stony Brook University, where I advise my college newspaper on financial matters.

 

I also provide free, one-on-one counseling to disadvantaged journalism students across the country as part of the Media Mentors / Journalism Mentors network.

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I earned my master’s degree from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University and completed my formal training in intermediate Python and Pandas for data reporting.

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Here is my résumé (PDF). Email me using the form below.