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Donna Borak is an Emmy-award winning Journalism Professor of NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, where she has been teaching since 2020. She currently teaches two core courses for undergraduate journalism majors: Journalistic Inquiry and Advanced Reporting. Donna has spent more than 20 years as an economic policy reporter in Washington and New York. Over her career, she has covered the 2008 financial crisis and housing finance reform, the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department, and economic and tax policy for the country’s biggest news outlets, including Bloomberg Tax, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, The American Banker, and The Associated Press. In 2023, she won an Emmy and Dateline Award for journalism excellence for her reporting, "New York City’s Property Taxes Are Crushing Homeowners" with Bloomberg News. Her reporting has taken her around the world, covering the collapse of global trade talks in Hong Kong to the annual International Monetary Fund meeting in Bali, Indonesia to the G20 Finance Ministers meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2014, she was awarded a prestigious year-long John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University, where she did research on the attention economy and built a conceptual prototype of an AI news assistant. Her media appearances have included Bloomberg Radio, The Big Take Podcast, C-SPAN, NPR and WNYC program’s Consider This, and Spectrum News NY1. Donna earned a Masters of Science in Journalism from Boston University and has a dual B.A. degree in Cognitive Science and Philosophy from Lehigh University.

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