Deena Zaidi


Data Journalist

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Current: Editorial Fellow at Axios (2023-2024)

Previous: Data and visual journalist at CTV News, data reporter at The Puget Sound Business Journal, markets contributor at TheStreet.com, financial writer at Seeking Alpha and tech/AI writer at VentureBeat.

Education: I hold an MSc. in International Banking and Finance from the University of Durham, England, and an MBA in Finance from ICFAI Business School, India.

More details: Before joining Axios, I worked at CTV News-National in Toronto as a data and visuals journalist, covering a wide range of stories— from hidden COVID-19 fatalities and rising Omicron numbers to immigration backlogssoaring inflation and climate change. I am comfortable with mapping tools and have created multimedia interactives through ESRI’s GIS interface. These stories included “50 Years Later: Expulsion from Uganda” and “Canadian skies turn lethal for migratory birds.”

Prior to CTV News, as a data reporter, I worked for The Puget Sound Business Journal(PSBJ)—one of the 44 markets of American City Business Journals for about 2.5 years

In 2018, as a data reporter at PSBJ , I covered special section topics such as economy of food trucks, pandemic impact on small businesses, financial aid to small businesses and supply chain disruption during the pandemic. I also maintained the local database to produce weekly lists of regional businesses along with insights on the findings, which were eventually published as the Annual Book of Lists.

Earlier in my careers, I covered financial topics for The Street in 2013 for 2.5 years, writing extensively on stock markets, earnings reports, Federal Reserve, interest rates, campaign finance, Brexit and personal finance. My bylines can be found in Reuters, Yahoo Finance, and MSN Money.

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Tag: Banking Crisis

  • The ‘Lost Decade’ of Japanese Banking Industry

    The ‘Lost Decade’ of Japanese Banking Industry

    Japan faces a history of ten years of repeated recessions followed by stagnation. As a sharp contrast to the stable performance in and before 1980’s, 1990’s was referred to as the “lost decade” by the Japanese. This area is identified as important since Japanese banks, two decades ago, were amongst the strongest in the world…