A TV producer covers Brexit, OPEC, the French elections, and Vladimir Putin
As Bloomberg TV executive producer for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, Annmarie Hordern oversees a team of about a dozen producers from Dubai to London, where she’s based. They’ve produced programming on a wide range of topics, from Brexit to OPEC to the French elections.
“Last night we did four hours of breaking news with the numbers coming out,” she said by phone the day after the first round of the French presidential vote. She enjoys the fast-paced work. “You’re thinking as quickly as you can on your feet about how you’re going to tell that story.”
The Long Island native said it’s an “amazing time” to be in Europe. “It just seems like there are never-ending interesting stories to cover that will really have an affect on our future.”
Last November, Hordern was at the OPEC meeting in Vienna when the group decided to cut its oil production for the first time in eight years. OPEC is one of her favorite stories to cover, she said, in part because of the major potential impact of the work. “Any news we end up reporting,” she said, “could move the price of oil or other assets.”
Perhaps Hordern’s biggest story was Bloomberg’s exclusive interview with Vladimir Putin in September 2016, just before the U.S. elections. As the producer, Hordern handled the many logistical issues that come with producing content for several outlets, including Bloomberg Businessweek. “It’s about trying to work as one global team,” said Hordern, who also went to Tehran to cover Iran’s elections in May.
This year, Hordern was named to Forbes’ “30-Under-30 Europe” list for media. When she was under 20, she got her start as student reporter at WFUV, Fordham’s public media station.
“When I went to Fordham I wanted to be a lawyer. That was before I stepped foot into [WFUV News and Public Affairs Director] George Bodarky’s office,” she said. She realized she’d been bitten by the journalism bug “the first time they sent me out with a mult box and a mic.”
Bodarky said Hordern “was on a path to greatness from day one. It’s just who she is.” He recalled her first feature, about a couple that exchanged vows in a shark tank. “She won two feature awards for that piece.”
While at Fordham Hordern interned for Charlie Rose, which proved fortuitous. “He tapes at Bloomberg TV,” she said. With a little help from an FUV alumna at Bloomberg who passed on her resume, Hordern started working at Bloomberg TV in New York the summer after graduation. “I was a production assistant. … Slowly they would give me more responsibility, and I said yes to everything.”
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Following on the school’s overall undergraduate ranking of No. 40, the Gabelli School of Business has placed seventh nationwide in international business in Bloomberg Businessweek‘s subject rankings.
Businessweek has not yet released the results of all its subject rankings. This year, the magazine is going for a slow burn, posting a “Top 10” list of one business discipline each week on its web site. The full listing of how all 124 undergraduate schools stack up in all fields will be released in a few weeks, the editors have said.
Our seventh-place ranking in international business represents a gain of four spots from 2012 and reflects Dean Donna Rapaccioli’s ongoing effort to intensify the global nature of the Gabelli School curriculum.
What are some of the results of that campaign? Consider these examples:
- Enhancements to the Gabelli School program in London to enable accounting, marketing and finance students to take advanced coursework in their fields, making it easier to study abroad for a full semester.
- Additional scholarship support for students who want to study overseas, including three John S. Wilcha travel grants for study anywhere in the world, and three London grants from KPMG.
- More study tours tied to full-semester courses, such as a spring 2013 class on finance in Brazil that featured a one-week tour to Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
- Encouragement for all faculty to introduce new international content and examples into the courses they deliver here at Rose Hill.
For more information about global study at the Gabelli School and how you can get involved, contact Michael Polito, director of international programs, at [email protected].
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For the first time, Bloomberg Businessweek has ranked Fordham’s Graduate School of Business Administration (GBA) among the best business schools in the country. Of approximately 2,000 business schools nationwide, the magazine whittles the list down to the top 63 institutions. Fordham was listed No. 58.
David A. Gautschi, Ph.D., dean of GBA, said graduate schools closely watch the Businessweek rankings because they are one of the original ranking sources for higher education business programs. MBA applicants often rely on the Businessweek ranking when choosing a graduate school.
Gautschi called the ranking a “breakthrough” and credited improved selectivity and a jump in GMAT scores from 587 in 2010 to 647 in 2012 with the GBA showing.
“This will assist in both faculty and [administrative]hiring and the school will also be taken more seriously by our peer institutions,” he said.
GBA set out to improve rankings as an imperative for the school, and established a task force chaired by Iftekhar Hasan, Ph.D., the E. Gerald Corrigan Chair in International Business and Finance.
“We want to use this as our beachhead and keep moving up,” Gautschi said.
— Tom Stoelker
Photo courtesy Fordham Athletics
Gabelli junior Kuba Kowalski is the Rams’ top singles tennis player and it earned him a chance to meet top-seeded Roger Federer at the U.S. Open recently.
Kowalski was featured in Bloomberg BusinessWeek in a piece that focused on his tennis game, academics (he has a 3.8 grade-point average as a finance major) and internships, which includes JPMorgan, where he’ll shadow a financial adviser this semester.
“As a tennis player, there is a lot to learn here from just observing the best in the world,” Kowalski told Bloomberg BusinessWeek. “I’ve had a chance to see the process from beginning to end, and it’s definitely motivating.”
Kowalski, who hails from Poland, was the country’s second-ranked junior when he was in high school, according to the piece. He said he chose Fordham because of it’s proximity to Manhattan. “He’s not the first player to choose the Rams because of the city’s business opportunities, according to Fordham coach Cory Hubbard, who said the location is ‘the No. 1 thing I push’ when recruiting.” Read more here.