Past Projects
Arlie Russell Hochschild’s bestselling book helped Americans get outside of their political bubbles after the 2016 election. Her book was covered by The New York Times, The New Republic, and The Nation, to name but three.
Diane Ravitch’s book made news when it was released for her reversal on the value of public schools. Coverage ran in The New York Times– a major interview with their education reporter–The Wall Street Journal, and NPR.
The Price of Inequality was the first New York Times bestseller for Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, and paved the way for much of today’s talk about inequality in America. The book was reviewed or covered in The New York Times, NPR, PBS, C-SPAN, and other outlets.
Iris Bohnet’s book won the 800CEORead Best Business Book of the Year Award for 2016. Her launch piece in The Wall Street Journal explained what companies can do to correct gender imbalance in the workplace.
A truly different business book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things was covered everywhere from Fortune to The New York Times Book Review to The Washington Post.
Sara Goldrick-Rab is one of the most interesting, influential, and outspoken critics of the higher education system. In her book interviews with “The Daily Show” and “Marketplace,” she explained exactly how the deck is stacked against the students who are trying the hardest to stay in school.
Bergdorf Goodman personal shopper Betty Halbreich is a media darling. The coverage for her memoir ranged from The New York Times to New York Magazine to CNN to NPR.
Veteran progressive activists and organizers Becky Bond and Zack Exley appeared on NPR and Democracy Now! (among other outlets) to discuss activism in the age of President Trump.
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) wrote this book about the growing–and worrying–trend of corporate money influencing politics, which especially affects the regulation of the fossil fuel industry. His interviews for The New Yorker, “Living on Earth,” and “Morning Joe” explained how this came to pass, and what citizens can do about it.
Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss pulled back the curtain on the unfair treatment of college athletes, and were covered by Sports Illustrated, “60 Minutes Sports,” the “PBS Newshour,” and “Charlie Rose,” among others.
Released just after England voted for “Brexit,” Joseph Stiglitz’s book about The Euro and its flaws was incredibly well-timed. He and this book were the focus of a major New York Times feature, multiple NPR interviews, and reviews in The Economist, The Financial Times, and more.
Google’s Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen launched the paperback of their book with a network package of interviews on “CBS Evening News” and “CBS This Morning”.
Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein wrote this landmark book before “behavioral economics” was an everyday phrase. The book became a phenomenon and is still cited today. Media for the book included the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, PBS, NPR, and countless other national outlets.
Kathryn Aalto’s delightful natural history of the Pooh stories and their settings charmed journalists at NPR, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and People Magazine, eventually becoming a bestseller.
This book’s findings were the subject of a Congressional hearing, breaking open the scandalous story of the true cost of the Iraq War. Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes were covered by almost every major media outlet, from NPR to the New York Times to the Associated Press.
The story behind the story of the 2008 financial crisis, veteran journalists Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean appeared on “Charlie Rose” and “The Daily Show,” among many other outlets.
Before it was an HBO series, Generation Kill was a book by journalist Evan Wright. The Rolling Stone articles on which the book were based won him a National Magazine Award. When the book was released it made waves, and media coverage included Fox News Channel.
A little-known interior decorator got his due in Maureen Footer’s book, which was covered everywhere from House Beautiful to The Wall Street Journal.
