by Amari Leigh | 2 Aug 2019 | Eyewitness, News Decoder Updates
From school paper to the Wall Street Journal, Betty Wong covered major stories including the 1990s stock boom and the Great Recession. This is the fourth in a series of profiles of News-Decoder correspondents. Betty Wong never expected to become a journalist. As a...
by Betty Wong | 26 Aug 2015 | Asia
Global markets have been in turmoil in recent days, with the prices of company shares and foreign exchange rates fluctuating wildly. Betty Wong, who covered Wall Street markets for years, takes a look at the herd mentality that can jolt markets around the world. By...
by Nelson Graves | 30 Jun 2021 | Human Rights, La Jolla Country Day School, News Decoder Updates, Youth Voices
Lucy Jaffee interviewed a top expert to get a jump on the mainstream press in a landmark free-speech case that reached the U.S. Supreme Court. Lucy Jaffee Eight months before the U.S. Supreme Court took up a free-speech case covered by the world’s largest news...
by Betty Wong | 3 Mar 2021 | Decoders, Economy, World
Does a battle over GameStop shares that has pitted defiant online investors against big Wall Street firms mean we’re in a stock market bubble? GameStop logo and stock market symbols, 29 January 2021 (AP/STRF/STAR MAX/IPx 2021) There’s been a lot of news lately...
by News Decoder | 5 Nov 2020 | Human Rights, La Jolla Country Day School, United States, Youth Voices
California student Lucy Jaffee interviewed renowned free-speech expert Floyd Abrams to write a forward-looking article on a landmark court case. Lucy Jaffee Lucy Jaffee was researching a complicated U.S. court case involving students’ right to freedom of speech....
