by ilene - August 5th, 2009 10:36 am
Congratulations to Zero Hedge for winning the First Amendment Award for Outstanding Journalism and welcome to Damien at WallStreetCheat! For Damien’s interview with Tyler, read on.
Courtesy of
Damien Hoffman at
Wall St. Cheat Sheet
Given the blurry line between journalism and entertainment, Wall St. Cheat Sheet has decided to launch a First Amendment Award Series for Outstanding Journalism. The inaugural winner for Best Blog is
Zero Hedge. We like to think of
Zero Hedge as the gritty, indie Bloomberg.
We believe media is continuing a major paradigm shift wherein old-school media outlets will continue to lose market and mind share to those who simply do the best reporting and offer the most valuable information. We believe that cynical investors will gravitate away from cheerleading and entertainment because no matter how financially illiterate they are,
Pavlov’s Dog tells us investors will ultimately learn to not respond to the bell if the bowl is empty or filled with poison.
We are proud to bring you the first ever interview with Zero Hedge co-founder Tyler Durden. Tyler and his team are perfectly branded as the protagonists from Chuck Palahniuk’s classic
Fight Club. The team of brilliant ex-Wall Streeters is on a mission to liberate us from the Old World Order where journalism is nothing more than a means to selling ads.
Damien Hoffman: Tyler, can you share the general story of your career?
Tyler: Alas, I can not go into details for obvious reasons. However, I can tell you that between the four authors of Zero Hedge, we have over two decades of corporate finance advisory, investing and operational experience. For example, between my colleagues and myself we have experience with Credit Default Swaps, financial restructuring, equity capital markets, M&A advisory, private equity, macroeconomic and FOREX analysis. Marla [Singer] is the legal expert
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