Lydia Moynihan
Lydia Moynihan follows how decisions in Washington, Wall Street and Silicon Valley filter into business, markets and daily life. She is a financial correspondent at the New York Post, covering business, politics and innovation through stories built around power players and major policy fights. Her reporting leans on direct access to executives, investors and elected officials while tracking how technology and regulation are remaking the economy.
Power, policy and Wall Street
Moynihan’s core beat is the intersection of government, high finance and big tech, with a focus on conflicts over power and money. She covers efforts in Washington to reshape major platforms, including breaking news around attempts to ban TikTok and other headline investigations into political scrutiny of tech and markets. Her work includes coverage of high-profile legal and financial episodes, such as reporting on Rudy Giuliani’s indictment and Trump-related SPAC activity as they move through markets and the political system.
She frames these stories around the players driving them, rather than abstract policy, foregrounding the decisions of lawmakers, prosecutors, financiers and corporate boards.
Interviews sit at the center of this coverage.
Moynihan has conducted on-the-record conversations with prominent business leaders such as Barry Diller, Bill Ackman and Eric Schmidt, as well as sitting senators and presidential candidates. These pieces often pair newsy revelations or sharp commentary with context on strategy, regulation or market risk, giving readers both quotes and consequences. Her reporting uses that access to show how elite decisions ripple into markets, corporate strategy and political campaigns.
AI, big tech and the new economy
A recurring strand in Moynihan’s work is how artificial intelligence and large technology firms are reshaping work, infrastructure and competitive dynamics. In her reporting on BlackRock’s $100 million Future Builders initiative, she follows the link between AI-driven demand for data centers and the need for tens of thousands of skilled trades workers to build the underlying energy infrastructure. The story focuses on how capital, philanthropy and corporate partnerships with firms like Walmart, Home Depot, Google and Meta are being marshalled to fill shortages of electricians, welders and other trades.
She treats AI not as an abstract technology but as a force that strains labor markets, infrastructure and long-term financial security for workers.
Her broader tech coverage stresses both competition and governance. Moynihan has reported on AI firms such as Anthropic and OpenAI when they warn that their own products could pose systemic risks, using those moments to explore whether safety rhetoric also functions as a barrier to rivals.
She has written exclusive interviews with leaders like Palantir CEO Alex Karp on “AI sovereignty,” probing how governments and companies want to control strategic technologies. Other pieces look at the cultural and reputational fallout of AI, including coverage of controversies around celebrity likeness and women’s rights in the context of generative tools.
Across these stories, the through-line is how AI power is allocated, constrained or exploited in markets and politics.
Moynihan extends this lens into education and the future of work.
In a video panel on AI and college admissions, she moderates a discussion with education and psychology experts about which skills will matter in an AI-shaped job market and how students can build authentic experience rather than chasing algorithmic advantage. The conversation connects emotional intelligence, critical thinking and real-world experience to hiring and workplace changes driven by automation, keeping the focus on practical consequences rather than hype.
Social media, regulation and digital life
Social media rules, youth safety and digital culture are another recurring focus. Moynihan has covered landmark changes at Meta that limit teens to two hours daily on Facebook and Instagram, tying new usage caps to regulatory pressure and broader concern over screen time and mental health.
She has reported on efforts to impose stricter standards on social platforms, including the broader push to curb TikTok, treating these fights as business stories with major implications for growth, advertising and user behavior.
Her coverage and commentary also look at how political actors use platforms.
In broadcast segments, Moynihan analyzes how candidates associated with the Democratic Socialists of America package “vibes” and aspirational messaging on social media to sell ambitious policy agendas, connecting online strategy to electoral outcomes and economic promises. She has discussed persistent inflation pressures even after headline rates move lower, focusing on how households experience prices and how political leaders communicate their economic record. In a New York Post video built around Meta smart glasses footage of a homeless encampment on Manhattan’s West Side, Moynihan reacts to first-person scenes of urban poverty, treating the technology as a tool to expose the reality behind official narratives.
Across these pieces, she uses social media and new devices as lenses on inequality, regulation and political messaging, rather than gadgets in isolation.
Interviews, franchises and on‑air analysis
Beyond daily stories, Moynihan anchors franchises and appears regularly on broadcast platforms, extending her beat into ongoing conversations. She leads NYNext, a New York Post franchise and podcast that introduces readers and listeners to visionaries and industry leaders shaping the future of the city and beyond. The series spotlights founders, executives and policymakers whose decisions affect New York’s economy, technology landscape and civic life, combining profile-style storytelling with hard business and policy detail.
Moynihan regularly appears on Fox News, CNBC and Fox Business, providing analysis on markets, corporate developments and economic policy. These segments often mirror her print priorities: how inflation feels on the ground, what regulatory decisions mean for big tech and markets, and how political campaigns translate economic narratives into digital content. She also hosts panels at institutions such as 92NY and at global investment gatherings, moderating discussions that bring together investors, executives and policy thinkers.
Across formats, her work is distinguished by a consistent focus on the collision of money, technology and governance, backed by access to decision-makers and a willingness to follow stories from boardrooms to city streets.
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