Marlon Weems
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(He/Him)
As seen in:
The Journeyman,
Apple Podcasts,
Illumination,
Medium,
MSN,
Yahoo Life,
Yahoo Finance,
Dana DuBois | I Write Out Loud,
Decolonized Journalism,
I'd Rather Be Writing,
Seeing Things
and
Covers:
American Culture, politics, and anti-Black racism
Doesn't Cover:
Unfortunately, I have an opinion about almost everything.
Just speculatin’ about a hypothesis. Free snark provider. Excessive gif user. Cinephile. Words: @ThaJourneyman. He/Him/His. AφA
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Marlon Weems’s Biography
Read Full Bio →Marlon Weems is an opinion journalist and writer focused on the intersection of U.S. politics, the economy, and race. He previously spent more than a decade of his thirty-year career in finance on Wall Street.
He began his writing career as a fintech subject-matter expert, authoring capital markets research for global financial services firms such as Thomson Reuters, FIS, and Charles Schwab.
These days, Marlon works from home on a small island in North Carolina with his wife, two of his four c…
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Interview
See all 21 answers →What was your first job as a journalist?
My first article was as a contributor for TABBForum.com
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes, but long ago and not very well.
How is social media changing news?
Social media has democratized access to news but has also increased vulnerability to false and manipulative stories.