David Joachim

David S. Joachim joined the Penn State faculty after a three-decade career in journalism covering the U.S. power centers of Silicon Valley, Washington and Wall Street.

He spent the bulk of that time at The New York Times and Bloomberg News.

Joachim played a leadership role in The Times's coverage of the global financial crisis as the paper's banking editor and weekend business editor in New York. He was part of the team that produced the 2008 series "The Reckoning," about the causes of the crisis, which won a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business Journalism and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in public service.

In Washington, Joachim oversaw the bureau's weekend report and helped supervise national security coverage. He was also the bureau's breaking-news writer for a time.

As a senior editor for Bloomberg investigations, Joachim edited original examinations of President Donald Trump's administration, campaign and business and helped oversee coverage of official examinations by the Justice Department special counsel, Congress and other authorities into conduct by the president and his inner circle. He also supervised financial investigations about white-collar crimes.

Joachim was also the senior member of a three-person "news desk" team that curated and managed news content on Bloomberg's consumer desktop and mobile platforms, and he wrote and edited explainers on complex subjects. Separately, he coordinated coverage of the Covid-19 response in the New York metro area.

Before The Times, Joachim covered the early days of the commercial internet as a masthead-level editor for several bygone technology magazines, including InternetWeek, CommunicationsWeek and Network Computing.

In 2018, Joachim earned his master of science degree in digital newsroom innovation from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. As part of his studies, he conceived and pitched to Bloomberg's top editors a concept for combining human reporting with news automation, a method that is now used to produce dozens of articles a day across Bloomberg's global newsroom. He also produced several solo multimedia projects.

Joachim previously taught at the George Washington University and Fordham University. He earned his bachelor's degree from Stony Brook University in New York, where he was the editor of his college newspaper, The Statesman, for more than two years. He still advises the paper.

• Joachim leaving Bloomberg to teach at Penn State