We are proud to share that two Columbia Journalism School alumni have been
longlisted for the 2019
Financial Times and McKinsey
Business Book of the Year Award.
David Epstein, a 2004 graduate of the
Master of Science Program, has been recognized for his book
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Riverhead) and
Amy Webb, a 2001 graduate of the
Master of Science Program, has been recognized for her book
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity (PublicAffairs).
Epstein's and Webb's books are two of sixteen titles that will compete for the £30,000 prize, which will go to the book that is judged to have provided the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues. The 2019 prize will be awarded in a ceremony in New York on December 3.
In his bestselling book
Range, David Epstein examines the world’s most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors, forecasters and scientists, and discovers that in most fields—especially those that are complex and unpredictable—generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel. Generalists, he finds, are often more creative, more agile, and able to make connections their more specialized peers can’t see. Epstein, who has previously worked at
ProPublica and
Sports Illustrated, is also the author of the
New York Times bestseller
The Sports Gene.
In
The Big Nine, Amy Webb argues that the big nine corporations–Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Microsoft, IBM and Apple–are the new gods of artificial intelligence (AI) and are short-changing our futures to reap immediate financial gain. She reveals the pervasive, invisible ways in which the foundations of AI–the people working on the system, their motivations, the technology itself–is broken. A quantitative futurist, Webb is also the author of
The Signals Are Talking: Why Today’s Fringe is Tomorrow’s Mainstream. She is a professor of strategic foresight at the NYU Stern School of Business, and the founder of the Future Today Institute.
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