Joe Nocera Biography
Joe Nocera (Full name – Joseph Nocera) is an American business journalist and author who was born on May 6, 1952, in Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. He previously wrote about business at The New York Times but currently writes about sports and was a columnist for the newspaper’s Op-Ed page. Nocera is also a business commentator for NPR’s Weekend Edition and for Bloomberg View as of January 2017.
Nocera spent ten years at Fortune as a contributing writer, editor at large, executive editor, and editorial director. He has won three Gerald Loeb awards for excellence in business journalism and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2006. He earned a B.S. in journalism from Boston University in 1974.
Joe Nocera Family
Joe Nocera’s father was a high school math teacher who worked part-time at a liquor store that had been started by Nocera’s grandfather in Providence. His Grandfather was named Lawrence and hid immigrated to the U.S. from Italy along with his older brother when he was 8. They settled on Rhodes Island. Nocera’s mother was a descendant of Irish immigrants who settled in Boston.
Joe Nocera Wife
As of 2014, Nocera was married to his wife, Dawn Schneider, who was the communications director for the Boies Schiller law firm headed by well-known litigator David Boies. However, this information cannot be confirmed to be still true as of today as there are no recent updates.
Before his marriage to Dawn Schneider, Nocera was married to his first wife for over 30 years. The couple had three children before divorcing in 2006. This was evident according to an opinion piece Joe Nocera authored on www.bloomberg.com dated June 11, 2018. An excerpt of that piece, where he was talking about the rise in suicide cases and his own struggles with depression, went as follows:
“I got through that first depression with the help of a new psychologist, some anxiety medication, and my soon-to-be ex-wife, who despite everything helped coaxed me back to health. Because depression had never been part of my makeup, my working assumption was that it was a one-off. It was the result, I assumed, of my being traumatized at the thought of divorcing a good person with whom I had raised three children and had shared a life for over 30 years.“
Joe Nocera Age
Joe Nocera was born on May 6, 1952, in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He is a veteran journalist who writes about sports in The New York Times. Nocera is 67 years old as of 2019.
Joe Nocera Bloomberg
In his last column on the Op-Ed page of The Times, Joe Nocera offered his views on several issues unrelated to sports including gun control and Michael Bloomberg’s involvement with the issue, education in the United States, Supreme Court terms, e-cigarettes, and election day in the United States. He began writing a column for Bloomberg View on business, political and other subjects in January 2017.
Joe Nocera New York Times
In April 2005, Joe Nocera became a business columnist for The New York Times. He became a regular opinion columnist for The Times’s Op-Ed page in March 2011, writing on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Nocera is also a business commentator for NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon.
Nocera’s began writing in the sports page of The Times in November 2015. When Executives at The Times cited Nocera’s interest in sports, specifically injuries to student-athletes and business issues in college athletics, they re-assigned him to the sports page from the Op-Ed page.
Joe Nocera Steve Jobs
In September 2012, Nocera wrote an opinion piece about Apple’s launch of (AAPL) Maps, in the then-new iOS 6 and iPhone 5, as a replacement for Google (GOOG) Maps. He opined that the move was an unmitigated disaster. Nocera went on to state that had Steve Jobs still been alive, then, such a disaster could have been mitigated. This statement did not go down well with some of the opinion writers in the field of technology.
Joe Nocera Criticism of Ncaa
Nocera has written over 10 columns since 2011, on the role played by the NCAA in the United States with a view that the NCAA “unfairly exploits college football and men’s basketball players” through a “double standard”. He cites the negative effects NCAA policies may have on student-athletes, which include unfair suspensions and financial inducements given to universities that lead to potential conflicts of interest, in order to support this view.
Joe Nocera has criticized specific actions and policies, pertaining to intercollegiate athletics, of many universities, including Rutgers University, University of Alabama, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Baylor University, and the University of Notre Dame. He has also extensively criticized the NCAA and Penn State University for their handling of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal.
Joe Nocera Net Worth
Thre is no doubt that the veteran journalist and opinion piece writer has earned and accumulated a good fortune over the course of his illustrious career. However, his actual net worth cannot be immediately ascertained as it is yet to be made publicly available. We’ll be sure to keep tabs and report to you on any developments in this area.
Joe Nocera Recognition
Nocera’s book A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class won the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Award for the best non-fiction book of 1995.
His contributions to business journalism have been recognized with three Gerald Loeb Awards: 1983 in the Magazines category for It’s Time to Make a Deal, 1996 in the Magazines category for Fatal Litigation, and 2008 in the Commentary category for Talking Business.
In 1983, 1984, and 1991, respectively, Joe Nocera also earned three John Hancock Awards for Excellence in Business Writing.
He was named a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary finalist in 2007. Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA, which he co-wrote with Ben Strauss, won the 2017 PEN America ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting.
Joe Nocera Books
- Nocera, Joseph (1994). A Piece of The Action How The Middle Class Joined The Money Class.
- Nocera, Joseph (2008). Good Guys and Bad Guys: Behind the Scenes with the Saints and Scoundrels of American Business (and Everything in Between).
- Nocera, Joseph; Bethany McLean (2010). All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis.
- Nocera’s Op-Ed columns at the New York Times are available at Nocera – Op-Ed Columns.
- Nocera, Joseph; Strauss, Ben (2016). Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA.
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