Hello, I’m Devon Shapiro. I’m a first-year MBA student at Sloan focusing on entrepreneurship, digital media, and politics. In this class, I’m interested in thinking about the role of journalism in society, especially with respect to how we can create business models that incentivize productive content creation and distribution. In prior lives, I was a consultant and data analyst, first at Analysis Group and later at Legendary Pictures.

My goals for this class are to:

• Learn from all of you about the journalistic process, what should count as journalism, and maybe even get some help thinking through the role of facts in our society
• Develop perspective on and a toolkit for navigating the digital media noise
• Learn how to productively engage in conversations I care about on social media

Some random interests I have:

• As an undergrad, I was fascinated by how people reconcile capitalism and biblical literalism. I did a major research project on the evolution of fiscal policy preferences among Evangelical Protestants
• I love to cook and have recently started learning methods of traditional Italian cooking (thanks, Marcella Hazan!) I’m also interested in pickles and have been tweaking a dill pickle recipe for a couple of years
• I try to prioritize travel – the hope for 2019 is to make it 10 countries