How Mary Childs Wrote The Bond King

Mary Childs, business journalist and co-host of NPR's "Planet Money," shares her hard-earned tips and tricks for reporting on the rich and powerful during this virtual session presented by the VPM + ICA Community Media Center. Childs explains how she navigated the trenchant reporting required for her new book "The Bond King" this book, including sifting through boxes of dense documents, navigating US libel laws, and dealing with her powerful, mercurial subject.

"The Bond King" (released by MacMillan Publishers on March 15, 2022) is the story of how investor Bill Gross made American finance his casino. Over the course of decades, Gross turned the sleepy bond market into a destabilized game of high risk, high reward; founded Pimco, one of today’s most powerful, secretive, and cutthroat investment firms; helped to reshape our financial system in the aftermath of the Great Recession―to his own advantage; and gained legions of admirers, and enemies, along the way. Like every American antihero, his ambition would also be his undoing.

For more information about the book, visit https://us.macmillan.com/books/978125....

For more information about Mary Childs, visit http://www.marychilds.com/.

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There are too many barriers to putting important stories into the world.  VPM and the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU are challenging those barriers by launching the VPM + ICA Community Media Center – a recording studio and workspace that is free, and open to the public. The Community Media Center is helmed by Dr. Chioke I’Anson, Assistant Professor of African American Studies at VCU and underwriting announcer at NPR. 

Whether you’re a student interested in media, a professional radio host, or simply a community member with something to say, the media center is for you. Learn practical and profitable production skills from experts. Build community with other storytellers, and get your voice out in the world.

To learn more about the Community Media Center, visit: https://icavcu.org/communitymedia/.
To learn more about the ICA at VCU, visit: https://icavcu.org/.
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