Podcast appearances and mentions of robin kwong

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This episode of Freedom Chautari Podcast centralized on the overall status of journalism surrounding COVID-19 pandemic. Panelists in the discussion are: Mark Lacey, New York Times National Editor, Robin Kwong, Chief Street Journal newsroom innovation, Professor Emily Bell from Columbia University Tow Center for Digital Journalism, and Marta Gleich, Group RBS, Brazil. The discussion is moderated by Julie Posetti, ICFJ’s director of global research. The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) organized the discussion.

This week, we talk to the Wall Street Journal's Newsroom Innovation Chief Robin Kwong. He talks about how his team develops features to help the WSJ's wider goals, how he helps facilitate innovation across teams in the business, and how his background in reporting and data journalism has helped his approach to this role. He also explains some of the features and tools they have developed for the publication, and how they explore this on their WSJ DXS Medium blog. In the news roundup the team discusses coverage of Black Lives Matter at the Philadelphia Inquirer and New York Times at length, then rattle through some news in brief. Stay angry, everybody.

An FT investigation by David Crow and Robin Kwong has found that, despite post-crisis anger at expensive benefits for corporate bosses and their subsequent reining in, S&P 500 company aircraft are still being used for personal trips. Additional reporting by Jennifer Bissell See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Some companies are experimenting with tracking their employees with wearable devices. We fitted Sarah O'Connor, the FT's employment correspondent, with a sleep tracker, a mood ring and a fitness tracker, and then shared the data with her boss. She tells Robin Kwong about the week-long experiment, what it feels like to be tracked as an employee, and whether this sort of data collection could actually be useful to an employer. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

You might not have heard of Hanergy Thin Film before, but this Hong Kong listed solar energy company is worth more than $35bn. Its share price has enjoyed a startling rate of growth in the last two years. But an FT investigation into trading in the company's stock has uncovered some curious patterns. Robin Kwong talks to Miles Johnson, FT hedge fund correspondent, about the findings. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.