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Liz Hoffman

ARCHETYPE

The Navigator

Judgement in the fog, money, risk and the call others cannot make.

Liz Hoffman leads as The Navigator, reading financial complexity the way a pilot reads instrument panels. She tracked early tremors in repo markets and commercial paper before the broader crash registered, evidence of an instinct for signals over noise. Her deliberate fly-on-the-wall sourcing method positions her where information flows freely, and her platform-agnostic career philosophy follows the same logic, chart the terrain first, then move through it with precision.

IN THEIR WORDS, WHY NAVIGATOR

I tried to kind of recreate that 'slowly and then all at once' feeling. Markets peaked on February eighteenth or nineteenth. Things are starting to see it a little bit in the repo market, commercial paper credit getting rickety.

MAPPING PANDEMIC'S FINANCIAL WARNING SIGNS

I think what I had said when I approached people was, here's how I want to tell this story — very voice of God, very fly on the wall. That gives people the safest space to speak.

EXPLAINING NARRATIVE JOURNALISM METHODOLOGY

I feel like there will always be demand for smart people to make sense of an incredibly complicated world. Just be agnostic about where that is.

CAREER ADVICE ON JOURNALISM'S FUTURE

MASTERS IN BUSINESS

Masters in Business: “Liz Hoffman on the Pandemic Stories Impacting Markets”

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