Alex Bronzini-Vender
Alex Bronzini-Vender covers business for the Washington Monthly, focusing on how economic forces and corporate decisions play out in specific communities and industries.
Business reporting at the Washington Monthly
Bronzini-Vender writes on business topics for the Washington Monthly, contributing reported pieces that sit at the intersection of commerce and public life. His work reflects the magazine’s emphasis on linking markets and money to broader questions of power, policy, and everyday experience. He approaches business not just as balance sheets and deals, but as a set of choices that shape local realities.
“Fear and Loathing in Palo Alto”
In his article “Fear and Loathing in Palo Alto,” Bronzini-Vender uses Palo Alto—a city synonymous with Silicon Valley and the technology sector—as the setting for his business reporting. The piece examines business and economic themes through the lens of a community deeply tied to the tech industry and its influence. That focus on a concrete place and its relationship to a powerful industry illustrates how he grounds his business beat in on-the-ground consequences rather than treating corporate and financial developments in isolation.
4 more business journalists.
Alex Smith
Alex Smith focuses on the business impact of enterprise technology, with a distinctive emphasis on AI literacy and skills rather than technical specifications. They write for Technology Record, covering how artificial intelligence and cloud platforms from major providers are turned into concrete programmes for organisations and governments. Their beat sits at the junction of business strategy, national digital policy and large-scale technology partnerships. They report on national AI literacy programmes and public–private partnerships, showing how policy choices, vendor capabilities and skills gaps intersect. On the business beat, they treat AI and cloud as tools for competitiveness, workforce readiness and participation in a data-driven economy. Their concise, announcement-led reporting highlights who is partnering with whom, what programme is being launched, which technologies underpin it and how it changes capability on the ground for executive readers.
Alison Durkee
Alison Durkee focuses on how law, regulation and politics create business risks for major companies and industries. She is a reporter at Forbes, where she writes news-driven explainers on complex legal and regulatory developments and their impact on corporate strategy, reputation and markets. Her coverage centers on companies under scrutiny, especially in technology and other high-growth sectors, and tracks trials, investigations and fast-changing policy fights. She breaks down lawsuits, inquiries and regulatory moves into clear parts, grounded in timelines, filings and official actions. She reports on generative artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies as tests of legal frameworks and corporate risk management, explaining how issues like intellectual property, safety compliance, consumer protection and governance can reshape product roadmaps, partnerships and investor expectations.
Alyson Shontell
Alyson Shontell covers business through the lens of leadership, using in-depth conversations with powerful executives and founders to show how their decisions shape companies, markets, and public life. She is editor in chief at Fortune, overseeing coverage across the masthead while continuing to write selected high-impact pieces. Her core work is long, reported interviews and profiles of CEOs of large companies, dominant tech firms, and fast-growing startups. She focuses on how leaders think, manage risk, make unconventional calls, and handle crises, culture, and the future of work. Her subjects include corporate chiefs, startup founders, and political figures treated as executives. She probes operating detail, governance, internal culture, and trade-offs around growth, disruption, and workplace models, using concrete examples and direct, accessible prose that foregrounds the subject’s voice while pressing for specifics.
Andrew Seidman
Andrew Seidman stands out for covering the three-way intersection of business, government, and public opinion, treating public sentiment as a core business variable rather than background color. He reports for The Philadelphia Inquirer on how business decisions and economic policy collide with politics and public opinion, with a focus on making complex regulatory and market issues understandable to general readers. His beat includes regulation, taxation, corporate strategy, and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. He explains technical policy debates in plain language, walking through mechanics, compliance costs, and who stands to win or lose. His work is data-driven, using survey results, economic indicators, and budget figures alongside case studies and on-the-ground interviews. He writes in a restrained, explanatory voice, draws on varied expert and community sources, and emphasizes accountability and concrete stakes.