Joe Nocera
Joseph Nocera at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
Joseph "Joe" Nocera (born May 6, 1952 in Providence, Rhode Island)[1] is an American business journalist and author. He writes about sports at The New York Times where he previously wrote about business and was a columnist for the newspaper's Op-Ed page.[2][3] Nocera is also a business commentator for NPR's Weekend Edition[4] and, as of January 2017, for Bloomberg View.[5]
3 Interest areas
3.1 Criticism of the National Collegiate Athletic Association
3.2 Support for fracking and Keystone XL
4 Criticism
5 Recognition
Nocera earned a B.S. in journalism from Boston University in 1974.[6]
In the late 1970s he was an editor at The Washington Monthly. In the 1980s, he was an editor at Newsweek; an executive editor of New England Monthly; and a senior editor at Texas Monthly.
Nocera was the "Profit Motive" columnist at Esquire from 1988 to 1990 and wrote the same column for GQ from 1990 to 1995. He worked at Fortune from 1995 to 2005, in a variety of positions, finally as editorial director.
He became a business columnist for The New York Times in April 2005. In March 2011, Nocera became a regular opinion columnist for The Times's Op-Ed page, writing on Tuesdays and Saturdays.[3] He is also a business commentator for NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon.[4]
In November 2015, Nocera's began writing in the sports page of The Times.[2] Executives at The Times cited Nocera's interest in sports, specifically injuries to student athletes and business issues in college athletics, as the reason for reassignment to the sports page from the Op-Ed page.[2] In his last column on the Op-Ed page of The Times, Nocera offered his views on several issues unrelated to sports including gun control and Michael Bloomberg's involvement with the issue, Supreme Court terms, education in the United States, e-cigarettes, and election day in the United States.[7]
In January 2017, Nocera began writing a column for Bloomberg View on business, political and other subjects.[5]
He lives in New York City.[6]
Interest areas[edit]
Nocera's columns in the New York Times offer perspectives on a wide array of current events.[6] He writes series of columns on specific issues, and often focuses on specific areas of interest to him.
Criticism of the National Collegiate Athletic Association[edit]
Since 2011, Nocera has written over 10 columns on the role played by the NCAA in the United States with a view that the NCAA "unfairly exploits college football and men's basketball players" through a "double standard".[6][8][9] To support this view, he cites the negative effects NCAA policies may have on student athletes, which include unfair suspensions and financial inducements given to universities that lead to potential conflicts of interest.[10][11]
Nocera has criticized specific actions and policies, pertaining to intercollegiate athletics, of many universities, including Rutgers University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Alabama, Baylor University, and University of Notre Dame.[12][13][14][15][16] He has also extensively criticized the NCAA and Penn State University for their handling of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal.[17][18][19][20][21][22][23]
Support for fracking and Keystone XL[edit]
Nocera advocates fracking, which is viewed as an economical method for natural gas extraction.[24] Fracking, however, faces widespread debate for its environmental impact. Its critics argue that, by augmenting fossil fuel supply, fracking contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. Nocera believes that these concerns are overstated because fossil fuel consumption is driven primarily by demand.[25] Other environmental concerns cited include flowback of contaminated water into potable water sources, induced seismic activity, and potential water scarcity due to the high level of water consumption required for fracking. Nocera argues that, because fracking has been widely adopted, "the responsible approach is not to wish it away, but to exploit its benefits while straightforwardly addressing its problems".[26]
Nocera also supports the construction of Keystone XL, which would encourage the extraction of fossil fuels from oil sands and shale gas deposits in Canada. For reasons similar to those for fracking, the proposed pipeline has been subject of political debate since the pipeline extension was proposed in 2008.[27][28] He has been a "longtime supporter of the pipeline" as it would, in his view, help the United States achieve "energy independence" by augmenting energy produced in North America.[29]
Criticism[edit]
In an August 2011 column on the US debt ceiling crisis, Nocera compared "Tea Party Republicans" with terrorists, and wrote that they "have waged jihad on the American people" and suggested that they "can put aside their suicide vests".[30] These choice of words were criticized by a number of media outlets, including Jonah Goldberg of the National Review, Jennifer Rubin of The Washington Post, and Jason Suderman of Reason magazine, along with then White House press secretary Jay Carney.[31][32][33][34] In a follow-up column, Nocera writes "[what] most surprised me is how darned liberal I sound sometimes." He then apologized:
The words I chose were intemperate and offensive to many, and I've been roundly criticized. I was a hypocrite, the critics said, for using such language when on other occasions I've called for a more civil politics. In the cool light of day, I agree with them. I apologize.
After comparing Congressional negotiations with "hand-to-hand combat", Nocera concluded the column with "I won't be calling anybody names. That I can promise."[35]
Recognition[edit]
Nocera's book A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class won the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Award for best non-fiction book of 1995. His contributions to business journalism have been recognized with three Gerald Loeb Awards: 1983 in the Magazines category for "It's Time to Make a Deal",[36][37] 1996 in the Magazines category for "Fatal Litigation",[38][36] and 2008 in the Commentary category for "Talking Business".[39] He also earned three John Hancock Awards for Excellence in Business Writing in 1983, 1984, and 1991, respectively.[1] In 2007, he was named a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary finalist.[40] Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA, which he co-wrote with Ben Strauss, won the 2017 PEN America ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting.[41]
Nocera, Joseph (1994). A Piece of The Action How The Middle Class Joined The Money Class. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0684804354.
Nocera, Joseph (2008). Good Guys and Bad Guys: Behind the Scenes with the Saints and Scoundrels of American Business (and Everything in Between). Portfolio. ISBN 978-1591841623.
Nocera, Joseph; Bethany McLean (2010). All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis. New York: Portfolio. ISBN 978-1591843634.
Nocera's Op-Ed columns at the New York Times are available at Nocera - Op-Ed Columns.
Nocera, Joseph; Strauss, Ben (2016). Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA. Portfolio.
New Yorkers in journalism
The Shrink Next Door
^ a b "Columnist Biography: Joe Nocera". New York Times. September 16, 2005. Retrieved 2011-05-21.
^ a b c Mullin, Benjamin (2015-11-02). "NYT business columnist Joe Nocera joins the sports department | Poynter". www.poynter.org. Poynter. Retrieved 2015-11-05.
^ a b Jeremy W. Peters (March 1, 2011). "Frank Rich to Leave The Times for New York Magazine". The New York Times Media Decoder. The New York Times Company. Retrieved March 1, 2011.
^ a b "People - Joe Nocera". www.wnyc.org. Retrieved 2015-11-05.
^ a b Joe Nocera profile and columns-links, bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
^ a b c d "Joe Nocera - Op-Ed Columnist". New York Times. October 5, 2015. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
^ Nocera, Joe (2015-11-03). "And That's My Opinion!". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-11-05.
^ Joe Nocera (October 2, 2015). "O'Bannon's Hollow Victory Over the NCAA". New York Times. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
^ Joe Nocera (April 8, 2011). "N.C.A.A.'s Double Standard". New York Times. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
^ Joe Nocera (January 23, 2013). "Living in Fear of the N.C.A.A." New York Times. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
^ Joe Nocera (January 12, 2015). "Playing College Moneyball". New York Times. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
^ Joe Nocera (April 6, 2013). "Why Rutgers Blinked". New York Times. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
^ Joe Nocera (May 6, 2014). "She Had to Tell What She Knew". New York Times. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
^ Joe Nocera (June 9, 2015). "Alabama Football Follies". New York Times. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
^ Joe Nocera (September 1, 2015). "Baylor, Football and the Rape Case of Sam Ukwuachu". New York Times. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
^ Joe Nocera (September 12, 2015). "Notre Dame's Big Bluff". New York Times. Retrieved October 6, 2015.
^ Joe Nocera (November 15, 2011). "Penn State's Long Road Back". New York Times. Retrieved October 6, 2015.
^ Joe Nocera (November 17, 2011). "Was Paterno Trying to Keep His Job?". New York Times. Retrieved October 6, 2015.
^ Joe Nocera (December 3, 2011). "It's Not Just Penn State". New York Times. Retrieved October 6, 2015.
^ Joe Nocera (July 17, 2012). "A Just Penalty for Penn State". New York Times. Retrieved October 6, 2015.
^ Joe Nocera (July 24, 2012). "Penn State is Hit Hard - Is It Enough?". New York Times. Retrieved October 6, 2015.
^ Joe Nocera (October 20, 2012). "Why Syracuse Isn't Penn State". New York Times. Retrieved October 6, 2015.
^ Joe Nocera (December 2, 2014). "The NCAA's Bluff". New York Times. Retrieved October 6, 2015.
^ Joe Nocera (October 4, 2013). "A Fracking Rorschach Test.html". New York Times. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
^ Joe Nocera (July 14, 2015). "Shale Gas and Climate Change". New York Times. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
^ Joe Nocera (February 6, 2012). "Poisoned Politics of Keystone XL". New York Times. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
^ Joe Nocera (February 10, 2012). "The Politics of Keystone, Take 2". New York Times. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
^ Jim Barrett (April 28, 2013). "Joe Nocera Still Loves Keystone XL, Is Still Confused About The Basic Economics Of Oil Markets". Think Progress. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
^ Joe Nocera (2011-08-01). "Tea Party's War on America". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-01-29.
^ Allahpundit (2011-08-02). "Jay Carney: No, it's not appropriate to compare Republicans to terrorists".
^ Jonah Goldberg (2011-08-02). "To Hell with You People". National Review.
^ Jennifer Rubin (2011-08-03). "New York Times columnist accuses Tea Party of 'waging jihad'". The Washington Post.
^ Peter Suderman (2011-08-02). "Tea Party Terrorists, Satan Sandwiches, Global Salvation, and the Worst Law In History: A Guide to Debt Debate Hyperbole". Reason.
^ Joe Nocera (2011-08-05). "The Tea Party, Take Two". The New York Times.
^ a b "Historical Winners List". UCLA Anderson School of Management. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
^ "Loeb citation for Times". The New York Times. June 29, 1983. p. D17. Retrieved February 7, 2019.
^ Huey Jr., John W. (June 10, 1996). "Hey, we're on a roll here". Fortune. Retrieved February 5, 2019.
^ "2008 Gerald Loeb Award Winners Announced by UCLA Anderson School of Management". Fast Company. October 28, 2011. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
^ "Past winners & finalists by category: Commentary". Pulitzer Prize.
^ "2017 PEN America Literary Awards Winners - PEN America". PEN America. 2017-03-27. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
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Roberts, Russ (December 20, 2010). "Nocera on the Crisis and All the Devils Are Here". EconTalk. Library of Economics and Liberty.
Gerald Loeb Award winners for Columns, Commentary, and Editorials
Gerald Loeb Award for Editorials (1970–1972)
Patricia Shontz (1970)
Philip Greer (1971)
Robert H. Metz (1972)
Gerald Loeb Award for Columns/Editorial (1973–1975, 1978–1982)
Clem Morgello (1973)
Henry Wallich (1974)
Edwin Darby (1975)
Hobart Rowen (1978)
Robert L. Bartley (1979)
Alan Gersten (1980)
Paul Lieberman (HM) (1980 shared)
Tom Bethell (HM) (1980 shared)
Sarai Ribicoff (1981)
Stan DeCoster (HM) (1981 shared)
Ann Baldelli (HM) (1981 shared)
George Melloan (1982 shared)
Lester C. Thurow (1982 shared)
Gerald Loeb Award for Columns (1977)
Lee Mitsang (1977)
Gerald Loeb Award for Editorial/Commentary (1984)
Robert L. Heilbroner (1984)
Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary (1985–2018)
Daniel Henninger (1985)
Michael Kinsley (1986 shared)
Robert Samuelson (1986 shared)
Richard Doak (1987)
Ron Ridenhour (1988)
Gordon Crovitz (HM) (1988)
David Warsh (1989)
L. Gordon Crovitz (1990)
Allan Sloan (1991)
Warren T. Brookes (1992)
Robert J. Samuelson (1994)
Jane Bryant Quinn (1995)
Bill Bishop (1996)
Holman W. Jenkins Jr. (1997)
Walter S. Mossberg (1999)
David Ignatius (2000)
Floyd Norris (2001)
Gretchen Morgenson (2002)
Jerry Flint (2003)
Michael Hiltzik (2004)
Peter Eavis (2005)
Robert L. Pollock (2006 shared)
Steven Pearlstein (2006 shared)
Steve Bailey (2007)
Joe Nocera (2008)
Daniel Howes (HM) (2008)
Brian M. Carney (2009)
Joseph E. Stiglitz (2010)
Zanny Minton Beddoes (2012 shared)
Edward Carr (2012 shared)
John Peet (2012 shared)
Patrick Foulis (2012 shared)
John O'Sullivan (2012 shared)
John Gapper (2013)
Peter Goodman (2014)
Jesse Eisinger (2015)
James B. Stewart (2016)
Adrian Wooldridge (2017)
Ed Silverman (2018)
Gerald Loeb Award winners for Magazines
Werner Renberg (1958)
Ernest Havermann (1959)
John A. Conway (1960)
Leonard S. Silk (1961)
Richard Austin Smith (1962)
Sandford Brown (1963)
John Brooks (1964)
Lee Silberman (1965)
Charles E. Silberman (1966)
Max Ways (1967)
Michael Laurence (1968)
John F. Lyons (1970)
Chris Welles (1971)
Kenneth Auchincloss (1972)
Everett Mattlin (1973)
Carol J. Loomis (1974)
Marshall Loeb (1975)
Gordon Williams (1976)
Lawrence Minard (1977)
Lewis Lapham (1978)
William Tucker (HM) (1978)
William Tucker (1979)
Robert Heilbroner (HM) (1979)
Walter Guzzardi Jr. (1980)
L. J. Davis (1982)
Joseph Nocera (1983)
Andrew Tobias (1984)
Richard L. Stern (1985 shared)
Howard Rudnitsky (1985 shared)
Barbara Donnelly (1986)
William C. Symonds (1987)
Robert Heilbroner (1988)
Eric Schurenberg (1989 shared)
Lani Luciano (1989 shared)
Carol J. Loomis (1989 shared)
Peter Brimelow (1990 shared)
Leslie Spencer (1990 shared)
Joseph S. Coyle (1991 shared)
Frank Lalli (1991 shared)
Denise Topolnicki (1991 shared)
Elizabeth MacDonald (1991 shared)
Robert Wool (1991 shared)
Connie Bruck (1991 shared)
Jonathan Beaty (1992 shared)
S. C. Gwynne (1992 shared)
Richard Behar (1992 shared)
Brian O'Reilly (1993)
Bryan Burrough (1994)
Phillip Longman (1995)
Mark Maremont (1997 shared)
Jane Sasseen (1997 shared)
Michael Mandel (1998 shared)
Dean Foust (1998 shared)
Shane Tritsch (1999)
Jeff Blyskal (2000)
Gary Rivlin (2001)
David Henry (2002 shared)
Nanette Byrnes (2002 shared)
Hal Lux (2003)
Aaron Bernstein (2004 shared)
Pete Engardio (2004 shared)
Manjeet Kripalani (2004 shared)
Charles Fishman (2005 shared)
Clifton Leaf (2005 shared)
Carol Loomis (2006)
Charles Fishman (2007)
Michael Lewis (HM); (2008)
David Leonhardt (2009)
James Bandler (2010)
Amanda Bennett (2011 shared)
Charles R. Babcock (2011 shared)
Peter Elkind (2012 shared)
Jennifer Reingold (2012 shared)
Doris Burke (2012 shared)
Robert Capps (2013 shared)
Cam Simpson (2014)
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