Emily Shugerman writes about women, wealth, and power. She is currently the wealth and power reporter for The San Francisco Standard, and was previously a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Her work has also been published in the Guardian, New York Magazine, and other outlets.
Emily previously served as The Daily Beast’s first-ever gender reporter and covered U.S. politics and breaking news for The Independent of London. She is a 2020 Livingston Award finalist and recipient of the 2019 Newswomen’s Club of New York’s award for best new journalist. Her work has been cited in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill. She is a firm believer in the Oxford comma.
Selected writing
on wealth
How politics and image control destroyed the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
OpenAI thinks its critics are funded by billionaires. Now it’s going after them
Before publicly turning on San Francisco, Marc Benioff had privately left it behind
Stanlee Gatti’s still got SF society wrapped around his little finger
How ex-liberal billionaires Ben and Felicia Horowitz made a MAGA U-turn