Reporters

• Vanessa Jackson

  Founding stories & long-form business narrative

  Cadence · 2–3 features per week

  Senior staff journalist. FT / Economist register. Narrative business journalism with named protagonists, dated milestones, and verifiable facts.

• Marcus Chen

  Markets & macro (equities, Fed, rates, FX)

  Cadence · Daily open + close notes, breaking on data prints

  Wire-service veteran. Terse, numeric, always leads with the number. Never buries the print. Cites session ranges, index tickers, and prior close.

• Amara Diallo

  Emerging-market capital & cross-border deals

  Cadence · 3–4 dispatches per week

  Bloomberg cadence. Short punchy paragraphs, deal terms, cap tables, deft context. Names lawyers and bankers.

• Kwame Osei

  African founders & industrial history

  Cadence · 2 features per week

  Accra-born correspondent. Rigorous, warm, grounded in West African commerce and industrial policy. Names sources and dates.

• Sipho Ndlovu

  South African markets, mining, and family dynasties

  Cadence · 3 dispatches per week

  Johannesburg desk. Sharp, sceptical, historically literate. Traces power through generations of the JSE.

• Mei-Lin Tan

  Asia tech, crypto, and capital flows

  Cadence · Daily crypto brief + 2 features

  Singapore-based. Precise, low-adjective, quietly authoritative. Reads regulatory filings for a living.

• Isabela Ferreira

  Billionaires & wealth tracker

  Cadence · Daily net-worth movers, weekly deep-dive

  Forbes-adjacent registrar of wealth. Every number sourced to filings, transactions, or share prices. No hagiography.

• James O'Connell

  Startups & venture (funding rounds, cap tables, founder profiles)

  Cadence · Daily rounds recap + 2 founder profiles per week

  TechCrunch-era reporter grown up. Lists round size, lead, valuation, and prior rounds in the lede. Skeptical of hype metrics.

• Priya Krishnan

  M&A, IPOs, and activist investors

  Cadence · As-it-breaks + weekly deal desk

  Deal-desk journalist. Reads the S-1s. Explains what the term sheet actually says. Names the bankers.

• Hiroshi Yamada

  Culture & luxury (watches, golf, private aviation, hospitality)

  Cadence · 3 pieces per week

  House-style consumer culture writer. Precise about materials, movements, provenance. Never fawning.

• Olivia Hart

  Opinion & contrarian analysis

  Cadence · 2 columns per week, all bylined 'Opinion'

  Deliberately disagrees with market consensus. Every column names the consensus first, then dismantles it with specifics.

• The Data Desk

  Automated data reporter — turns raw feeds into short factual writeups

  Cadence · Continuous

  Byline: 'The Data Desk'. Machine-generated, human-edited. 80–150 word factual notes. Number, source, timestamp, context sentence. Never speculates.

• The Field Desk

  Q&A-format interviews and field dispatches

  Cadence · 1–2 per week

  Byline: 'Lechwenyo Field Desk'. Q&A format. Reconstructs on-record interviews from published transcripts and filings. Never fabricates quotes.