Hello,
Meet Dakin Campbell, our newest finance reporter.
Dakin joins The Information from Business Insider, where he was chief correspondent for investigations and enterprise, after a decade at Bloomberg covering finance and markets. He brings deep knowledge and a wealth of sources in finance, with past work on data centers, private credit, tech IPOs and the financing behind today’s biggest technology shifts.
He has broken news, written features and profiles, and conducted award-winning investigations. In 2023, he and a colleague broke the news of a romantic relationship involving a federal bankruptcy judge that led to the judge’s resignation less than two weeks later.
Dakin is already helping break news on investment banks’ trading strategies and the inner workings of complicated AI financing deals.
We spoke with Dakin about why he joined The Information, where he sees the finance beat heading and what he’s watching as the AI boom unfolds.
Why did you join The Information?
I have admired The Information for years, going back to the formation of the finance team and the excellent stories they’ve done since. But it was really when covering the artificial intelligence build-out for Business Insider that I knew I had to work here. As the economy embarked on what Jensen Huang has called the biggest infrastructure build in modern history, The Information’s reporters showed up day after day with agenda-setting scoops. And their stories put so much of the news in the exact right context, allowing me to learn so much with each story. It became clear to me that, at this time and in this world, there was no better place to be a reporter.
What are the stories you are most excited about?
I’m most excited about the stories that go deeper than the headlines. The ones that surface the intricacies of a deal’s structure, that highlight the power players in the room that might not be known by the wider market, that show the AI build-out isn’t all it seems on the surface. We’re still in the middle of the boom times, and I expect it will be when things begin to slow down that the most interesting stories are likely to emerge.
You’ve broken major stories across finance, from data centers and private credit to tech IPOs. Which past story most shaped how you think about the beat today?
I’m dating myself, but I became a financial journalist in the immediate aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, so much of how I think about the financial world is through that prism. I think in terms of cycles. And we’re in the middle of another cycle that will eventually come to an end. As Mark Twain may or may not have said, history doesn’t repeat, but it does often rhyme.
What’s one area of finance or tech finance that you think is undercovered right now?
This is not really my beat, but I still think we don’t have a full understanding of how algorithms affect our financial lives. Whether it’s the dynamic pricing of World Cup tickets or automobile fuel, loan underwriting, insurance policy rates, or any number of other things, we’re increasingly being affected by decisions that are made not by humans but by machines. AI is only going to supercharge that, so I feel there is more to be written about how algorithms and increasing AI are imperiling consumers' financial standing.
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Dakin’s arrival expands The Information’s finance coverage at a critical moment for tech, as AI infrastructure, private credit and IPO markets reshape the industry. Our deeply sourced reporters are already inside the conversations driving these shifts, giving subscribers trusted reporting before the story becomes obvious to the broader market.
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