Summary of Barry Meier's Spooked

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:

#1 Simpson, a member of the Priesthood, was known as an aggressive reporter skilled at uncovering corruption in politics, business, and government. He was invited to speak at a prestigious conference in 2009 alongside some of his profession’s biggest names.

#2 By the 1990s, online news organizations were appearing and readers and advertisers began flocking to them. The newspaper industry began to collapse and papers nationwide were laying off hundreds of reporters and cutting back on expenses.

#3 After the 9/11 attacks, Simpson made terrorist financing his beat, and he wrote articles examining how terrorist groups were moving money to finance their activities by using loopholes in the international banking system or sham charities.

#4 Simpson developed a network of private operatives who became sources for his next reporting obsessions: the financial and political worlds inhabited by oligarchs and Russian criminals. One of those articles featured the image of a Russian oil company executive, who after a hearty lunch of dumplings and shots of vodka, keeled over dead.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822503625

IRB Media

With IRB books, you can get the key takeaways and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways and analyze them for your convenience.

Book preview

Insights on Barry Meier's Spooked

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Simpson, a member of the Priesthood, was known as an aggressive reporter skilled at uncovering corruption in politics, business, and government. He was invited to speak at a prestigious conference in 2009 alongside some of his profession’s biggest names.

#2

By the 1990s, online news organizations were appearing and readers and advertisers began flocking to them. The newspaper industry began to collapse and papers nationwide were laying off hundreds of reporters and cutting back on expenses.

#3

After the 9/11 attacks, Simpson made terrorist financing his beat, and he wrote articles examining how terrorist groups were moving money to finance their activities by using loopholes in the international banking system or sham charities.

#4

Simpson developed a network of private operatives who became sources for his next reporting obsessions: the financial and political worlds inhabited by oligarchs and Russian criminals. One of those articles featured the image of a Russian oil company executive, who after a hearty lunch of dumplings and shots of vodka, keeled over dead.

#5

When Glenn Simpson returned to Washington, D. C. , in 2007, he brought with him his interest in oligarchs and Russian organized crime. He began writing about Kazakhstan in 2008, when its ruler, Nursultan Nazarbayev, was pitted in a political death match against his former son-in-law.

#6

Glenn Simpson, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, was soon getting the type of material that only a reporter dreams