Shibani Joshi
An American business and technology journalist who spent about six years as a Fox Business/Fox News reporter, whose on-air comparison of German and American solar potential drew an independent fact-check from Slate in 2013.
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- Country
- United States
- Born
- October 4, 1975, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Education
- MBA, Harvard Business Schoolstated by the subject
- Career
- CNN Financial; Disney/ABC Media Networks (Senior Manager, Strategy & Business Development, 2004-2006); Fox Business Network/Fox News, technology reporter, ~2007-2013stated by the subject
- Later work
- Independent communications advisor, keynote speaker, Stanford Graduate School of Business executive coach; teaches at the University of Oklahoma's Price College of Business EMBA programstated by the subject
Overview
Shibani Joshi is an American business and technology journalist, born in Oklahoma City in 1975. She worked at CNN Financial and in strategy roles at Disney/ABC Media Networks before spending about six years as a technology reporter and markets-show contributor for Fox Business Network and Fox News. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and later worked independently as a communications advisor and executive coach, including at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, and teaches at the University of Oklahoma’s Price College of Business.
A fact-checked on-air claim
In February 2013, while reporting for Fox Business, Joshi said Germany “gets a lot more sun than we do” when explaining the country’s solar-energy adoption. Slate’s Future Tense blog independently checked the claim against U.S. Department of Energy solar-irradiance data and reported that most of the United States in fact receives more sunlight than Germany, naming and quoting Joshi directly in its report (Slate).
Timeline
- 2013-02-07
- On Fox Business, states that Germany "gets a lot more sun than we do" as an explanation for its solar-energy adoption; Slate's Future Tense blog independently fact-checked the claim against U.S. Department of Energy solar-irradiance data and reported it was incorrect.
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- Beyond the Slate piece, independent coverage of her career is limited; biographical and career-history detail above is drawn from her own site and a low-editorial-bar interview series and should be treated as self-reported.
Sources
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Sourced to Slate's independent fact-check of a specific on-air claim, which names and quotes her directly; her own broadcast appearances and writing are not counted as independent coverage of her under this site's sourcing policy. Presented neutrally, noting the correction rather than as a standalone criticism.
- Fox News expert on solar energy: Germany gets 'a lot more sun than we do' Supports: An independently reported and fact-checked on-air claim she made regarding German versus American solar potential.
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