Skip to content
  • Nieman Foundation at Harvard
  • Fellowships
  • Reports
  • Lab
  • Storyboard
  • Magazine
  • Subscribe
Search
Nieman Reports
  • Home
  • Articles
  • Topics
  • About
  • Subscribe
Nieman Reports
  • Home
  • Articles
  • Topics
  • About
  • Subscribe
  • Magazine
  • Subscribe
  • Nieman Foundation at Harvard
  • Fellowships
  • Reports
  • Lab
  • Storyboard

Author

Peter Coy

@petercoy

Peter Coy is economics editor of Bloomberg Businessweek magazine. He previously was technology and telecommunications editor.

Staggering Drunks and Fiscal Cliffs: How Bloomberg Businessweek Uses Metaphors in the News

Illustration by Harry CampbellIn 2008, the year of the financial crisis, BusinessWeek magazine pictured Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke as a driver careening down a mountain road, then as Vladimir…
June 13, 2013
Nieman Reports
  • Foundation
  • Reports
  • Lab
  • Storyboard
  • Subscribe
  • X/Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Help advance the Nieman Foundation’s mission “to promote and elevate the standards of journalism” by making a donation.

Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
Walter Lippmann House, One Francis Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-2237

© 2023 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

  • Harvard University
  • Trademark
  • Privacy
  • Digital Accessibility