Challenging Investment Norms with Izabella Kaminska

On todays episode I was happy to host Izebella Kaminska, Founder and Editor of  @The Blind Spot , a new media venture that aims to shine a light on stories being missed by the wider journalistic pack, to talk about

On the podcast we talked about Izabella's background in journalism, the importance of challenging investment norms and what stories Izabella believes should be talked about more. I hope you enjoy!

0:00 - Introductions
0:20 - Izabella background
2:40 - Positives of independence
4:45 - What are peoples motives?
8:15 - extremes coming to the forefront
11:20 - Specific article that were not being covered?
19:35 - Questioning investing and FED rhetoric
28:05 - Finance news pieces that should be covered more by mainstream media?
34:15 -  Nuclear
39:10 - Message to take away from the interview?

Izabella is an alumni of the Financial Times, where she spent 13 years in reporting roles, most recently as the editor of FT Alphaville, the Financial Times’ award-winning markets and finance blog. Izabella was also an FT columnist and opinion writer focused on tech, finance and markets.

Izabella started her journalistic career in 2001 as a junior reporter for the English-language newspaper the Warsaw Business Journal. She later spent time in the former Soviet Republic at the Caspian Business News, which took her to Azerbaijan and Georgia. In 2003 she reported as a freelancer from Kabul, Afghanistan, before joining BP as an Associate Editor of the company’s internal magazine Horizon in 2004.

After completing the 2005 Reuters graduate trainee programme, Izabella joined Platts to focus on the reporting of European natural gas markets. She then went on to become a senior producer at CNBC in London, producing the channel’s flag-ship programme Squawk Box.

With the The Blind Spot Izabella is initiating a two-part plan to try and help reconfigure how journalistic information is organised on the internet.

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