Joseph Weisenthal (born September 2, 1980) is an American journalist, television presenter and podcaster. He is the

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of news for

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's digital brands, the co-anchor of ''What’d You Miss?'' on

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, and co-host of the ''Odd Lots'' podcast with

Tracy Alloway Tracy Alloway is a financial journalist and podcaster at Bloomberg News, based in New York as of 2022. She co-hosts the weekly Odd Lots podcast with Joe Weisenthal. In 2022, she and Weisenthal were nominated for a Webby Award for best business pod ...

on Bloomberg Podcasts.

Early life and education

Joseph Weisenthal was born on September 2, 1980, in

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. He graduated from the

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in 2002 with a degree in political science.

Career

In 2004, Weisenthal co-created the markets blog ''TheStalwart.com'' with his friend Vincent Fernando, which published discussions about current stocks, finance, business, and economics. Weisenthal wrote for the technology news blog

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as an analyst between March 2006 and September 2007. In October 2008, Weisenthal joined ''

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'' as lead financial blogger covering markets, finance, and economics, and in February 2013, became

of the website. In October 2014, Weisenthal left ''Business Insider'' and joined

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the same month as

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of Bloomberg's online markets and finance coverage, running the newly created ''

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'' website. In June 2015, Weisenthal joined the newly created markets show ''What'd You Miss?'', which he co-anchored with Alix Steel on

. The show is named after one of Weisenthal's most often-used expressions, "What'd I miss?", which he tweets almost every morning. As of July 2021, the show is co-anchored by Weisenthal,

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, and Romaine Bostick. Since 2015, Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, an executive editor for

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based in

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, have co-hosted the business and finance podcast ''Odd Lots'', which as of 2021 is released twice a week on Monday and Thursday, on Bloomberg Podcasts and other podcasting platforms. In November 2016, Weisenthal became the

of news for

's digital brands.

References

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