Dimitra DeFotis, Journalist
 Creative thinking under pressure, seeking the truth and writing engaging stories -- that's my work life. I have been a writer at Barron's for more than a decade, in print and online, learning the art of equity analysis, pitching ideas and crafting investing stories. I'm now a senior editor online, and my goal remains turning lucrative, timely ideas into enjoyable reading.You can always find my latest Barron's work here. Before Barron's, I was a staff writer at the Chicago Tribune. In the late 1990s, I contributed to some of the industry's earliest online journalism experiments from conception with senior editors to reporting on the street. Our early Digital City community projects, which were true team efforts using the written word, photos and sound, were an
exciting time for online journalism. I also wrote newspaper pieces on
diverse subjects from online auctions and farm technology to charter
school financing and religion. In 2008, I was named a Knight-Bagehot Fellow, a program at Columbia University's graduate schools of journalism and business, and earned a Master's degree. My mostly-MBA courses were in accounting, finance, capital markets, economics, value investing and securities analysis. The year included once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, from a social enterprise journey to India and a CIA recruiting session, to lessons with top journalists from The New York Times, The Financial Times, BusinessWeek and The Wall Street Journal. At private dinners, we talked candidly with people like hedge fund giant Eddy Lampert and former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker.
Knight-Bagehot Fellows 2007-08: Paul Glader, Jeremy Caplan, Jose Eduardo Teixeira Costa, Allison Fass, Jim Edwards, Dimitra DeFotis, Bryan Myers, Greg Griffin, Liza Featherstone, Leoneda Inge. I owe much to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. And to my first stop after graduating, the Daily Herald. The training there was great, with a surly copy desk chief and evasive detectives on the police beat. I wrote a business column at the Herald after covering the financial implications of suburban growth on local towns and schools. | My personal blog
India & the Bagehot: Columbia Business School's Chazen Institute awarded my India paper & the CBS Social Enterprise Program featured my India diary. All part of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship. Chicago Tribune:
I covered many subjects for the Trib from 1996 to 1999. The piece with nine lives is on Orthodox Christian converts.
(Search archives here)
Etcetera:
I support Girls Write Now, a network of NYC writer-mentors & teens.
My sister Andrea Edwards' humorous riff for This American Life (intro to David Sedaris piece on detectives, Episode 28, 7/12/96) |
