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Dow Jones plans to expand Middle East operations - Talking Biz News
Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch.com and Investor’s Business Daily, plans to expand its Middle East operations next year. The company plans to open offices that will include news operations, sales functions and information services focused on risk and energy, among other initiatives. “The Gulf’s position as an […]
Politics editor Pershing leaving WSJ - Talking Biz News
Ben Pershing, the politics editor of The Wall Street Journal, is leaving the news organization. “It’s been a genuine pleasure to work with you,” he wrote in an email to colleagues. “I especially want to thank Tim, Josh and the entire politics team for your great journalism and your warmth and generosity as colleagues. I’m […]
Bloomberg TV hires Kerubo as desk producer - Talking Biz News
Bloomberg Television has hired Brenda Kerubo as a desk producer in London. She will be covering Europe’s financial markets, companies, and economics news. Kerubo has been a communications consultant for the World Bank for the past year. She previously was a financial reporter for KTN News in Kenya. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Kenya Methodist University […]
Dynamo hires former Business Insider executive editor Harrington - Talking Biz News
Former Business Insider executive editor Rebecca Harrington has been hired by Dynamo to be its chief of staff. Dynamo is the new media company started by former Business Insider editor in chief Nicholas Carlson. Harrington will manage the company’s day-to-day operations, such as human resources, legal, finance and vendor relationships. At Business Insider, which she left […]
Jittery CNBC staff reassured by new boss - Talking Biz News
In a meeting at CNBC headquarters Thursday afternoon, incoming boss Mark Lazarus presented a bullish view of the future after the news that Comcast would spin off the network, reports Geoff Weiss and Lucia Moses of Business Insider. Weiss and Moses report, “On Wednesday, CNBC anchors shared some worries and dark humor on-air, with ‘Squawk Box’ coanchor Joe […]
NY Times taps Stevenson as DC bureau chief - Talking Biz News
New York Times executive editor Joe Kahn sent out the following on Friday: A January 2010 front page analysis of Barack Obama’s State of the Union address noted that the president ended his address with a plaintive appeal to transcend partisanship. The Times reporter succinctly summed up the urgent challenge: “Is it possible to embrace complexity in […]
Making business news accessible to a wider audience - Talking Biz News
Ritika Gupta, the BBC’s North American business correspondent, was interviewed by Global Woman magazine about her career. Here is an excerpt: With economic uncertainty becoming a recurring theme, how do you ensure that your reporting not only informs but also engages viewers who may not have a deep background in business? I have always been […]
Dow Jones senior VP Jones is departing - Talking Biz News
Brent Jones, the senior vice president of training, culture and community at Dow Jones, is leaving the news organization. He is not part of the layoffs at The Wall Street Journal earlier this week. The email announcement from chief people officer Dianne DeSevo: Team, I’m writing to share the news that Brent Jones has decided to […]
Rest of World hires Lo as China reporter - Talking Biz News
Rest of World has hired Kinling Lo as a China reporter. Lo was previously a correspondent covering diplomacy, macroeconomy, and tech policies for the South China Morning Post from Beijing. Lo has spent most of her time in Hong Kong, where she was born and raised. She also worked in Washington D.C. in 2022 to focus […]
Bloomberg rises to No. 7 biz news website - Talking Biz News
Bloomberg News saw strong unique visitor growth to its website in October, passing Fox Business to become the No. 7 business news website, according to data from ComScore. Bloomberg reports a 28 percent gain in unique visitors to 24.8 million in October. While Fox Business grew 8 percent in unique visitors to 22.1 million, it […]
Reis joins SoFi for personal finance newsletter - Talking Biz News
Helen Reis has joined SoFi as deputy newsletter editor for its new On the Money personal finance newsletter. She previously was with The Messenger as senior editor overseeing its personal finance coverage. Reis was also senior news editor of The Balance, a personal finance website owned by Dotdash Meredith and primarily focused on service journalism. […]
The FT is expanding its food and drinks coverage - Talking Biz News
The Financial Times has announced the appointment of Jay Rayner as restaurant critic, Tim Hayward as food writer and Marina O’Loughlin as columnist as part of an expansion of its food and drink coverage. Rayner is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and author whose work is well known in British and international media. His broadcast career […]
Dow Jones Newswires launches Korean language service - Talking Biz News
Dow Jones Newswires has launched its first artificial intelligence-enabled language service. The Dow Jones Korean Language Service provides markets and financial news and analysis. The services is built on a custom tech stack that selects the best translation model. The process best-in-class artificial intelligence and years of journalism experience to produce a machine translation service […]
Delano, KDKA money and politics editor, is retiring - Talking Biz News
Jon Delano, money and politics editor for KDKA-TV since 2001, will retire on Dec. 1. A KDKA story states, “‘It’s been the greatest honor of my life to work with such terrific colleagues at KDKA over the last three decades,’ said Delano. ‘Because of KDKA’s reputation for solid, even-handed journalism, I’ve had the privilege of […]
Reuters hires WSJ's Hirtenstein - Talking Biz News
Reuters has hired Wall Street Journal reporter Anna Hirtenstein. She will start next month. Hirtenstein has been covering global financial markets, macroeconomics and geopolitics from the London bureau. She joined the Journal in 2019. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg in London and a clean-energy investment banker at Greentech Capital Advisors in Zurich. In the […]
Howard joining Bloomberg's financial regulation team - Talking Biz News
Bloomberg News journalist Megan Howard is joining its financial regulation team. She has been team leader for breaking news in Washington. Howard has been on the breaking news team since September 2019. She previously was deputy team leader. Howard has been a a congressional reporter covering veterans affairs and defense for Bloomberg Government. She has appeared on Bloomberg Radio and ABC’s […]
Moody joins Bloomberg as Americas news director - Talking Biz News
Caroline Gage, head of the Americas for Bloomberg News, sent the following announcement to staff: All, I’m delighted to announce that Emma Moody will return to Bloomberg as News Director for the Americas Emma was most recently the Head of Standards & Ethics at the Wall Street Journal, and held numerous roles over her 15 […]
NY Times DC bureau chief Bumilller returning to reporting - Talking Biz News
New York Times executive editor Joe Kahn sent out the following on Thursday: Without a doubt, the biggest political story of the last decade has been the election of Donald Trump in 2016 and the disruption to the political system that followed. Numerous desks around the newsroom have contributed to our superb coverage of Trump’s administration and […]
Forbes senior editor Feldman switches to health care - Talking Biz News
Forbes senior editor Amy Feldman is now covering health care. She had been covering industrial innovation and climate technology. She co-authored the Current Climate newsletter and edits the Next Billion-Dollar Startups list. She’s written features on greenhouse gas smuggling, the founder of HeyDude shoes, the billionaire automating Walmart’s warehouses and Bell Labs’ 1970s ‘Red Father’ chatbot. Before rejoining Forbes in 2016, she wrote for […]
DeRosa tapped as VP of newsletters and programming at Pluralsight - Talking Biz News
Business journalist Anthony DeRosa has been hired by Pluralsight, a technology education site, as vice president of newsletters and programming. DeRosa has over 25 years of experience, including leading content and product teams at Reuters, Circa, The Wall Street Journal, and Pensions & Investments, where he was most recently as digital content director. DeRosa led digital strategy […]
Reuters hires Hinnant as EMEA investigations editor - Talking Biz News
Reuters global enterprise editor Mike Williams shared the below note with staff: All, I’m excited to announce that investigative journalist Lori Hinnant is joining Reuters as our new EMEA Investigations editor. Lori, who joins us from the Associated Press, brings with her an impressive record of achievement. Last year, she was part of the AP […]
CNBC president: We are unique and essential to our audience - Talking Biz News
CNBC president KC Sullivan sent out the following on Wednesday morning: Team, As you will have seen, Comcast announced that it will proceed with plans to spin off the majority of NBCU’s cable networks into a separate publicly traded company. Below is the memo that Mike Cavanagh sent earlier outlining the details of the spin […]
WSJ reporter Singh departs for research firm - Talking Biz News
Hardika Singh, a markets reporter for The Wall Street Journal, has left the organization and joined Fundstrat Global Advisors, an independent market research firm. She joined The Journal in 2021 as a commodities reporter covering energy and metals. Singh previously interned for The Journal on the markets desk covering stocks, bonds, commodities, crypto and currencies. […]
Scherer departs Reuters for new opportunity - Talking Biz News
Steven Scherer, former Ottawa bureau chief at Reuters, has left the news organization and is looking for a new opportunity. He has a permanent permit to work in Italy and most of the European Union. As a foreign correspondent, he covered general news, politics and economics for a quarter of a century, always for an […]
CNBC is part of Comcast spinoff company - Talking Biz News
Comcast is spinning off its cable networks, including CNBC, into a separate company, reports Benjamin Mullin of the New York Times. Mullin reports, “Comcast said Wednesday that the new company will be unencumbered by debt and well-positioned to scoop up other assets. Comcast announced last month that it was considering a spinoff, leading analysts to […]
Bird to cover Wall Street, US finance for The Economist - Talking Biz News
Mike Bird, Asia business and finance editor for The Economist, is moving to New York in 2025 to cover Wall Street and U.S. finance for the publication. Bird joined The Economist in Singapore in 2021. He writes about capital markets, economic development and major corporations across the region. Bird previously worked for The Wall Street […]
Fresno Biz Journal publisher Webster hits 50 years - Talking Biz News
Gordon Webster Jr., the publisher of the Fresno Business Journal, is celebrating 50 years with the publication. Gabriel Dillard of the Business Journal writes, “By 1981, he assumed the role of publisher when the paper was known as the Fresno Daily Report. “Gordie was an early adopter, carving out a business-to-business niche in the Central Valley and […]
Tankersley becomes Berlin bureau chief at NY Times - Talking Biz News
Jim Tankersley has been named Berlin bureau chief for the New York Times. He has been based in its Washington bureau covering economic policy. Tankersley will move to Germany in early 2025. He joined The Times in 2017 to cover taxes and economic policy in the Washington bureau. He then moved to the White House team […]
Halperin named co-editor in chief at Hollywood Reporter - Talking Biz News
The Hollywood Reporter replaced co-editor-in-chief Nekesa Mumbi Moody on Tuesday with Shirley Halperin, reports Sean Burch of The Wrap. Burch reports, “Halperin will serve as co-editor-in-chief alongside Maer Roshan. “Halperin resigned as editor-in-chief of Los Angeles Magazine in July, just a year after joining the publication, amid complaints that it failed to pay overdue bills to freelancers and vendors. Before […]
The Economist hires Wu to cover China - Talking Biz News
The Economist has hired Sarah Wu as a China correspondent. She previously worked at Reuters, reporting on politics and society in Hong Kong, semiconductors and cross-strait relations in Taiwan, and the rise of the EV industry in China. Wu interned at the Boston Globe and Seattle Times. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.
Politico's Guggenheim wins Dirksen award - Talking Biz News
Politico tax policy reporter Benjamin Guggenheim has been awarded the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress for his groundbreaking investigation, “The 401(k) industry owns Congress’: How lawmakers quietly passed a $300 billion windfall to the wealthy.” The award is given by the National Press Foundation. The Dirksen award recognizes journalists whose work […]
Reuters hires Buzbee as US and Canada news editor - Talking Biz News
Sally Buzbee will join Reuters as news editor for the United States and Canada. She will start on Dec. 11. Buzbee previously served as the executive editor of The Washington Post and as the executive editor and senior vice president of The Associated Press. During her three years at The Post, sheexpanded the Post’s international […]
The Information hires FT's Germano - Talking Biz News
The Information has hired Financial Times reporter Sara Germano. She will start on Dec. 2 and cover the business and future of sports—with a strong focus on women’s sports. Germano has been the FT’s U.S. sports business correspondent for the past four years. Before the FT, Germano was with the Wall Street Journal working as a […]
SF Standard tech reporter Anand departs - Talking Biz News
Priya Anand, a tech culture reporter at the San Francisco Standard, has left the publication to start a communications consulting business. She previously was at Bloomberg News covering startups and venture capital. Before joining Bloomberg, Anand served as a reporter at The Information covering Amazon and e-commerce. She also worked at BuzzFeed as a transportation reporter. Prior to joining BuzzFeed, Anand was covering […]
Reuters hires Lee as tech correspondent in Taiwan - Talking Biz News
Reuters has hired Wen-Yee Lee to be its tech correspondent in Taiwan. She has been a reporter for Business Weekly Magazine, based in Taipei, Taiwan, covering the intersection of tech and geopolitics with a focus on the U.S.-China decoupling and Taiwan’s semiconductor industry. Lee was part of the Business Weekly team covering the shutdown of […]
STAT, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance among the EPPY Award winners - Talking Biz News
Here are the business news-related winners from the annual EPPY Awards, given out by Editor and Publisher to recognize the best in digital journalism: Best Business/ Finance Website (Fewer than 1 million unique visitors) Winner: STAT, Business of Health and Medicine Judge’s comments: “STAT News is committed to delivering highly researched and balanced reporting on […]
CoStar hires Brooks as a New York residential reporter - Talking Biz News
Real estate news service CoStar News has hired Khristophr J. Brooks as a reporter covering New York residential real estate. He has been at CBS Moneywatch for the past five years covering economic disparities for the personal finance website. Before that, he had been covering town government for Newsday. Brooks previously covered innovation and entrepreneurship for the […]
Bloomberg reporter Lopez joins Axios - Talking Biz News
Bloomberg News reporter Nadia Lopez has been hired by Axios to write a San Francisco newsletter. She has been covering California policy stories about the environment, politics, energy, health and other topics since joining Bloomberg in May 2023. Before that, she was a reporter at CalMatters covering environment and climate policy, focusing on the state’s major goals […]
Tech reporter Kerr departs NPR - Talking Biz News
NPR tech reporter Dara Kerr has left the news organization for a new opportunity. Kerr came to NPR from The Markup, where she covered labor at tech companies. She investigated the risks that Uber and Lyft drivers take — and the lack of protection the tech companies provide them. She also reported on big tech […]
Fox Business host Duffy named transportation secretary - Talking Biz News
President-elect Donald Trump has named Fox Business show host Sean Duffy as his transportation secretary. Greg Wehner of Fox News reports, “Duffy joined FOX News Media as a contributor in 2020. He served as the co-host of FOX Business’ The Bottom Line alongside Dagen McDowell. He also provided political analysis across all FOX News Media platforms. “Shortly after the announcement, […]