“At the end of class, Penny predicted that I would write a book within ten years,” Frier said with a laugh, noting that she had made it just under the wire. In a September 2020 virtual visit with UNC Hussman Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics Professor Penny Muse Abernathy’s class, Frier told the Zoom-assembled Carolina graduate students that she’d taken Abernathy’s MEJO 752 “Leadership in a Time of Change” class a decade ago as an undergraduate student at Carolina. She said that “No Filter” tackled “two vital issues of our age: how Big Tech treats smaller rivals and how social media companies are shaping the lives of a new generation.” She has been with the business news powerhouse since she graduated from Carolina with a degree in media and journalism in 2011.įinancial Times editor Roula Khalaf chaired the judges for this year’s competition. Buy this book!” Dean Susan King tweeted as the news broke.įrier is a longtime Bloomberg journalist covering social media from San Francisco who interned with Bloomberg News while a student at UNC-Chapel Hill. “Such good company for the young Sarah Frier, and such a good read. The short list for the £30,000 award included authors Jill Lepore, Daniel Susskind and Reed Hastings. “ No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram,” the first book by UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media alumna Sarah Frier, won the Financial Times/McKinsey 2020 Business Book of the Year Award during a live online ceremony from London on Tuesday, Dec.
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