Sidebar: Closing the Books on Money, with Shirley Leung
Love Letters
The Boston Globe
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Shirley Leung, a business columnist who hosts Say More — a new podcast from Boston Globe Opinion — sits down with Meredith for a few final reflections on love and money, the theme of Season 8 of Love Letters. Also, listeners weigh in with their takes on the season. Email us at [email protected]. Find Say More wherever you listen to podcasts, or at globe.com/saymore.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome back to Love Letters. We're here today with a bonus sidebar episode |
| 0:10.0 | as we plan our next full season of the show, but more on that later. My guest today is |
| 0:14.6 | very fitting as we close the books on our latest season of the podcast, which has been all |
| 0:18.3 | about love and money. Shirley Leung and I have been colleagues at the Boston Globe for the |
| 0:23.2 | better part of 20 years. She's a longtime business columnist, reporter and editor. She's also the |
| 0:29.1 | host of a new podcast called Say More, where she talks to leaders, thinkers and doers about big |
| 0:34.5 | ideas and innovations that are shaping our world. Shirley, so great to see you. Meredith, I'm so |
| 0:40.7 | excited to be here on your podcast. You've been listening to a lot of our love and money season, |
| 0:48.0 | which makes me feel very special, but I have some questions for you before we get into that if you |
| 0:51.6 | don't mind. Go ahead. Okay, so you've been writing about money and the economy for many years. |
| 0:57.1 | Can you share a little bit of your background with this beat? How did you first get interested in |
| 1:01.0 | writing about money? I kind of fell into it. I actually wanted to be a foreign correspondent, |
| 1:06.7 | but then I got my first job out of school and doing cops. You probably did your fair share of |
| 1:14.7 | cops and covering the suburbs, but when I got into journalism, I really liked reading the Wall |
| 1:19.8 | Street Journal, and that might seem kind of strange, but it was known for good writing and good |
| 1:25.0 | editing, so I applied for a job there. I got a job working at the Wall Street Journal in the |
| 1:30.3 | Boston Bureau, and I'm end of spending most of my career in business journalism, because |
| 1:37.6 | what happened was that business became, it went main street, as I like to say, Wall Street |
| 1:44.3 | went to main street. I mean, think about 20 years ago, people were starting to sit at home and |
| 1:50.4 | trade stocks. Nowadays, it's not uncommon to have grandmothers talking about the stocks that |
| 1:58.5 | they're trading. For me, my career in business journalism, dovetail with the rise of Bloomberg, |
| 2:07.2 | the rise of CNBC, and people weren't scared about business and money. They wanted to talk about it. |
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