Jane Sasseen

Jane Sasseen is a business journalist and the executive director of the McGraw Center for Business Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. 

She oversees the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism, which provides grants and editorial support to experienced journalists working on investigative and enterprise stories on critical issues related to the U.S. economy and business. She also dispenses scholarships and internship stipends to students concentrating on business journalism.

Sasseen spent 15 years at BusinessWeek, serving as Washington bureau chief, news editor and national correspondent before being named editor-in-chief for politics and opinion at Yahoo News. Earlier in her career, she worked for nine years in Europe, writing for Newsweek, the International Herald Tribune, and others before joining London-based International Management as Paris bureau chief.

Jane Sasseen appears in the following:

Puerto Ricans Pay the Price for Debt Crisis

Thursday, June 07, 2018

Puerto Rico is facing the biggest local government bankruptcy ever filed in the United States. The territory is currently 72 billion dollars in debt.

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Puerto Rico's Other Crisis

Thursday, June 07, 2018

A new series from WNYC covers New York's role in Puerto Rico's debt.

A Battle With Big Implications for How States Borrow

Monday, June 04, 2018

The result of Puerto Rico’s legal battle may set new ground rules for bankruptcies, not to mention change how states and cities raise money from the bond market.

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Judge Charts New Waters in Puerto Rico Bankruptcy Case

Monday, June 04, 2018

No one has ruled on Puerto Rico’s new bankruptcy law before. That means the judge overseeing the complex case is making history with every decision.

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With Wall Street's Help, How Puerto Rico Maxed Out On Bonds

Monday, June 04, 2018

It didn’t matter that the economy was tanking. People all over the U.S. kept buying Puerto Rico’s bonds and elected officials kept on borrowing.

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The Bankruptcy Case That Could Make or Break Puerto Rico

Monday, June 04, 2018

Months after Hurricane Maria, high-powered lawyers are duking it out in a Manhattan federal court over Puerto Rico’s debt.

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Takeouts: President's Vacation, Amazon's Kindle, Colts' Loss

Monday, December 28, 2009

Washington Takeout: President Obama isn't getting much of a vacation, reports Julie Mason, White House correspondent for the Washington Examiner, since a Nigerian-born man allegedly...

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This is a test, it is only a test

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Starting Wednesday the U.S. government will begin examining how each of the country’s major banks would do in case of a worst-case scenario for the economy. Depending on the results o...

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Bad bank, good idea?

Friday, January 30, 2009

The Obama administration is considering the creation of a “bad bank” to buy up billions in so-called toxic assets. We’re taking an in-depth look at this seemingly counter intuitive pr...

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