Guest
Megan Greenwell is a journalist and editor who has led newsrooms as editor-in-chief of Deadspin and editor of WIRED.com, with writing in the New York Times, the Washington Post, GQ, and Esquire. She works with the Princeton Summer Journalism Program and consults for newsrooms on editorial and revenue strategy. Bad Company, an investigation of private equity's reach into American life, is her first book.
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2025
Greenwell follows four American workers — a Toys R Us supervisor, a rural doctor, a local journalist, and a housing organizer — as private equity buys their employers, tracing how the industry extracts wealth from companies and communities and how people fight back.
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