Why the Top 100 Have Stopped Talking to Journalists

Essay · James Whitfield

Why the Top 100 Have Stopped Talking to Journalists

And what it costs the public record.


For two decades, the Fortune Top 100 investment managers and CEOs were the lions of business journalism — quoted, profiled, sometimes feared. Today, they are silent. They have been advised to be. PR firms now exist primarily to prevent communication, not to invite it. The result: the public no longer has access to the thinking of the people whose decisions shape its pensions, its rents, its retire...

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— Wealth First Editorial