Just flashed on the screen and read out by an announcer in Rod Laver Arena:

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To be clear about what this depicts: An immigration officer threw a woman onto the ground. Alex Pretti, a registered nurse on scene as a legal observer, is filming and goes to help the woman up. He is then pepper sprayed and thrown to the ground for no discernible reason. Many

my co-byline on the front page of today’s @QueensEagle !!!

New Interview: https://t.co/wn2jo8KIKM

this shit is Bad. as i wrote in may, https://t.co/jtpEmdY9Cb

Good morning, New York. While you were sleeping, this was the most-read story https://t.co/eMr3bWK5eb

Keep saying “I’m actually writing an essay about this” in conversation

the nyt opinion section will let the most out-of-touch people try to cook it’s awesome

in college there was an entire contingent of people who started smoking cigarettes to kick their juul addictions. not saying this is exactly like that but the brain works in mysterious ways

There’s clearly an appetite for print-only media and in-person engagement, which a lot of people here are excited about. After all, you had to be there to get a copy, and there’s no online footprint (and no byline) for contributors. It makes for an interesting venture.

They have stickers that say “you are about to lose all your money.” It speaks to the sensibilities of the magazine and its clientele, I think, and references the “recession indicators,” as one attendee told me, that abound on this site and in media in general.

Jonathan knows one of the editors and is here to support. He’s a urban planning PhD who said that people in a wide range of professions need to understand finance, which is a “mystifying” and “self-mythologizing” field, but one that is ultimately graspable for anyone!

Another attendee works for a fintech company, but commented that she thinks there’s maybe only one other person here who works in finance or is finance-adjacent. “It’s almost all media people.”

One attendee I chatted with is “unironically” a “finance fan” (but skeptical of the industry) and he wanted to see if this was serious or not. He says the issue has things he wants to read about; finance reporting has a bias, he says, & it’s nice to see stuff not from the WSJ.

I also chatted with Paige, the third co-editor. She had her own idea of covering NYC’s burgeoning tech economy as a journalist, and found that Nico and Mike had similar ideas. She wants to get NYRF in the hands of people with firsthand knowledge of financial institutions.

Pretty mixed crowd overall. There are at least a few people who work in finance or who are finance-adjacent — but it’s mostly media/literary people (the type that would show up to a magazine launch). We’ll see if it can break out of that moving forward.

Their tagline is “this is not financial advice.” It’s $5 if you have a real job and $10 if you have a fake (i.e. email) job. The editors fronted the costs for this issue but are hoping to find a model that works for them moving forward.

Mike is another one of the editors — he’s an urban planner. He said that NYRF is “a magazine that I wish existed.” The editors met while playing softball; they all wanted to see a publication about business and finance that wasn’t too stuffy or serious.

One of the editors, Nico, runs a wine store but used to work at a hedge fund. He said that NYRF will cover the economy from social, political, and cultural lenses, and that its lack of bylines allows contributors to have a great degree of candor in their reporting.