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Nina Roberts is a New York City-based journalist and photographer covering business through the lens of culture and immigration. Her stories chronicle how businesses, especially immigrant-owned, are changing cultures and economies. These stories have been published in The New York Times, Guardian and Grub Street, among other outlets, along with her photos. A selection of Nina’s random street shots and outtakes are on the PHOTOS page. Sign up for my newsletter NYC’s Mercantile Mayhem for news about the survival of independent businesses.
Small Biz Trends
NEW YORK TIMES Entrepreneurs Who Keep It Real in “About Us” [Read Story]
rebels with jars: Modern Packaged Foods
NEW BUILDERS DISPATCH Got Bloat? The Easier To Digest A2 Milk [Read Story]
NEW BUILDERS DISPATCH Modern Mexican Food Brands Give Old El Paso The Boot [Read Story]
Food Enterprises & Tech Startups
Design Entrepreneurs & Service businesses
Enterprising Networks
NEW BUILDERS DISPATCH How Saint Javelin Plans To Help Rebuild Ukraine [Read Story]
POlicies Impacting Immigrant-owned Businesses
NEW BUILDERS DISPATCH Are Startups a Better Model For Humanitarian Work? [Read Story]
Various & Sundry: the Quasi-archived, UnPublished and Non-Biz Articles
NEW YORK TIMES Party Planners on Pause, Awaiting Revelry’s Return [Read Story]
THE NEW YORK TIMES The Frantic Fun of Hunk-O-Mania, spiked due to covid [Read Story]
