Emmalyse Brownstein is a freelance writer, editor, and journalist. She regularly contributes to media publications and helps brands with content needs, including article writing, copyediting, thought leadership, and more.

Before freelancing, Emmalyse spent three years covering Wall Street culture for Business Insider. Her stories took readers inside some of the world’s most powerful financial institutions, illuminating everything from the high-pressure lives of junior bankers and Gen Z’s arrival on Wall Street to internal clashes over return-to-office mandates, the industry’s cutthroat recruiting culture, and the emergence of Wall Street South.

She previously reported for McClatchy Media’s network of local newspapers; wrote about music, arts, and culture for Miami New Times; and spent a summer copyediting news wire stories at The New York Times.

In her free time, Emmalyse writes a weekly arts and culture newsletter on Substack called Interesting Person.

Reported Essays

• Where Did All the Normal Gyms Go? (Business Explains the World)

• Status, Spectacle, and a latex Ferrari outfit (Interesting Person)

Features

• Megayachts, dog poop, and NDAs (Business Insider)

• America's most boring job is on the brink of extinction (Business Insider)

• How student finance clubs seized control of the path to Wall Street (Business Insider)

• Inside Citadel interns’ week at The Four Seasons (Business Insider)

• Wall Street's notoriously competitive culture is making its youngest recruits lonelier than ever (Business Insider)

Profiles

• When companies like Facebook and Zillow IPO, they turn to this man (Business Insider)

• Coming out on Wall Street (Business Insider)

Scoops & Investigations

• Private equity giant TPG halts early recruiting (Business Insider)

• Leaked memo: Inside JPMorgan's RTO plan for its largest office (Business Insider)

• Goldman Sachs is getting a facelift, but some insiders are unimpressed (Business Insider)

• Why Wall Street is transfixed by a BofA banker's untimely death (Business Insider)

• Goldman Sachs partner exodus: The full list (Business Insider)

Reels/Shorts

• How Blackstone employees used furniture to barricade themselves from the Manhattan shooter

• The Wall Street career path can be brutal. Young people are embracing it