Jeffrey Timmermans

Jeffrey Timmermans has more than two decades of experience as a financial journalist and journalism educator, having worked as a reporter in Tokyo for The Wall Street Journal and as a managing editor for Dow Jones Newswires in Hong Kong and Singapore. He also worked for Bain & Company, leading the global strategy consulting firm’s public-relations efforts in Asia.

My Latest Articles

Business news story structure

The inverted pyramid might be the classic model for structuring a news story, but it doesn’t work very well for business and financial news –

Always a borrower and a lender be

With all the recent talk about raising the U.S. government debt ceiling and a possible recession on the horizon, it’s a good time to revisit

When corporations ‘merge’

The big business news of the day (so far, at least) is Microsoft’s near-$70 billion acquisition of video-game maker Activision. As Andrew Ross Sorkin and Michael J.

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