In January 2021, Times of E founder Elizabeth MacBride interviewed our first full-time reporter, Skyler Rossi. They talked about the evolution and present-day work of being a business journalist, and how many mainstream business outlets have abandoned the work of covering people on the small end of the economy.

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A business journalist for 20 years, am the founder of Times of Entrepreneurship and the co-author of The New Builders.