Maureen Farrell

I cover Wall Street for The New York Times with a focus on private equity firms, hedge funds and billionaires and their influence on the investing world and society at large.

What I Cover

I follow the money, as they say. In my role, I have the opportunity to look at the accumulation of capital by private and public funds, sovereign wealth funds and individual investors and where that money flows — whether into companies, nonprofits, investment portfolios, or the private sector. I’m interested in unearthing and showing readers how that movement of money affects so many areas of daily life, from higher education to geopolitics to retirement plans.

My Background

I’ve been covering Wall Street for nearly two decades. Most recently, I spent eight years at The Wall Street Journal where I covered some of the largest tech I.P.O.s — Airbnb, Uber, Lyft and the failed public offering of WeWork. I chronicled the rise and fall of WeWork, its founder Adam Neumann and the people and pools of capital that gave rise to the company in a book I coauthored, “The Cult of We.” Before joining The Journal, I worked at Forbes, CNN and Debtwire. I joined The Times in 2021.

I attended Duke University as an undergraduate and earned a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. I grew up on Long Island and now live in Brooklyn.

Journalistic Ethics

As a Times journalist, I share the values and adhere to the standards of integrity outlined in The Times’s Ethical Journalism handbook. I don’t directly own any stocks or investments in companies or firms I may write about. I protect my sources. I do not accept gifts, money or favors from anyone who might figure into my reporting. I do not participate in politics, nor do I make political donations.

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