
Robert Friedman
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Senior Editor, Investigations, at Bloomberg News
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05-02-2010 04:57:28
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The saddest story you will read today. And maybe the best. Olivia Carville goes deep on a social media sextortion scam targeting teenage boys, driving some to suicide. bloomberg.com/features/2024-… via Businessweek

On the Businessweek cover this week, an incredible and incredibly disturbing story by Olivia Carville. You can read it here: bloomberg.com/features/2024-…


The billionaire and the boiler room. Follow the money. Zachary Mider and Zeke Faux finally figured out where some of the funding for the cash-advance industry is coming from. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Businessweek

Thank you Max Abelson


Why are Customs agents expelling Chinese graduate students with valid visas? My colleague Sheridan Prasso documented more than 20 cases in recent months in what she describes as a new, secretive China Initiative. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Latest from⭐️reporters Olivia Carville and Cecilia D'Anastasio about predators lurking on popular gaming platform Roblox. Proud to have worked with them on this disturbing Businessweek investigation. bloomberg.com/features/2024-… via Businessweek

Bloomberg's Olivia Carville has been investigating child safety in the digital world for the past two years, reporting on how social media platforms are harming a generation of kids. We put all her stories in one place: bloomberg.com/features/socia… via Businessweek

Featured in this Columbia Journalism Review piece about 1968 and 2024, along with Dan Rather, Marvin Kalb and Earl Caldwell. cjr.org/first_person/1… via @cjr


How did chips made by US companies get inside a Russian missile that killed a 6-year-old girl in Ukraine? Bloomberg's Stephanie Baker and Daryna Krasnolutska do the autopsy for Businessweek. Powerful. bloomberg.com/features/2024-… via Businessweek

Good news, Bad Medicine. Honored to have been part of this global reporting effort with Zachary Mider, Kendall Taggart 🕵🏼♀️, Peter Robison, Flynn McRoberts, Swati Gupta, Modou Joof and many more.

Proud of Olivia Carville. Second time in three years!

Proud of this investigation by Gavin Finch Kendall Taggart 🕵🏼♀️ David Kocieniewski The World Bank invested billions of dollars in private hospitals from Africa to Asia to improve healthcare. But stories of abuses have piled up bloomberg.com/news/features/… via Bloomberg

New crypto mining by Zeke Faux and Todd Gillespie Cantor Fitzgerald is the linchpin of the go-to digital currency of the criminal world. Its CEO is poised to become Commerce secretary bloomberg.com/news/features/… via Bloomberg Politics

👋👋👋Proud of @bw reporters Olivia Carville and Cecilia D'Anastasio for winning George Polk award for technology reporting for stories about how companies fail to protect children online. LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES 2024 GEORGE POLK AWARDS IN JOURNALISM prn.to/4gFr2Hr

A French billionaire, an archipelago of rubber plantations and sex-for-work allegations. Kudos to Sheridan Prasso, Gaspard Sebag and Benoît Berthelot for this investigation. bloomberg.com/features/2025-… via Bloomberg

Congrats to Olivia Carville and Cecilia D'Anastasio on winning the John Bartlow Martin Award for public interest magazine journalism for their Businessweek articles about online hazards for teens. 👋👋👋medill.northwestern.edu/news/2025/bloo… via Northwestern Medill
