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Forbes names Phillips its new CEO - Talking Biz News
Forbes Media has named Sherry Phillips, who has been with the company for 28 years, as its new chief executive officer. She replaces Mike Federle, who is stepping down at the end of the year and has been CEO for the past seven years. Phillips was appointed chief revenue officer in 2022, overseeing all aspects of Forbes’ […]
Quinn named editor at large at Bloomberg Government - Talking Biz News
Liam Quinn has been named an editor at large at Bloomberg Government. He joined Bloomberg Industry Group as a commercial strategy manager in April. Quinn was deputy managing editor of the Washington Examiner. He began his career with News Corp Australia in Melbourne, Australia, in 2013. He then moved to New York in 2016, working for […]
Worcester Biz Journal promotes Casey to ME - Talking Biz News
Eric Casey, who has served as Worcester Business Journal’s staff writer since October 2023, has been promoted to managing editor. A story on its website states, “In this new role, Casey will help set newsroom policy and strategy, and he will be directly in charge of administering all the advice and opinion columns submitted by […]
Boston Biz Journal hires Hall as a reporter - Talking Biz News
The Boston Business Journal has hired William Hall as a reporter, covering banking and finance, professional services such as law and accounting, and publicly traded companies. Hall has been managing editor of digital operations at MaineBiz and business editor at the Portland Press Herald in Maine. He also worked in public relations at Porter Novelli […]
Energy reporter Paullin departing Virginia Mercury - Talking Biz News
Charlie Paullin, the energy and environmental reporter for the Virginia Mercury, is leaving the publication at the end of the year. He previously worked for Northern Virginia Daily in the Northern Shenandoah Valley and for the New Britain Herald in central Connecticut. An Alexandria native, Paullin graduated from the University of Hartford initially wanting to […]
Politico hires Burns as White House bureau chief - Talking Biz News
Politico global editor in chief John Harris sent out the following on Wednesday: Team – Heading into the second Trump presidency, we’ve been in urgent and lively conversations with dozens of talented journalists both inside and outside POLITICO, with one goal in mind. We want to position our newsroom to tackle the coming period of political and […]
CNBC creates unit that will explore new content areas - Talking Biz News
CNBC announced Wednesday that it created a new unit that will explore building new content areas and expand existing verticals. The new unit, called Strategic Verticals & Audience Development will expand CNBC’s coverage of wealth, serving ultra-high-net-worth individuals, women’s leadership, and introduce more verticals in the coming year. Julia Boorstin, CNBC’s senior media & tech […]
CNBC is planning a streaming service - Talking Biz News
CNBC plans to launch a stand-alone streaming outlet, CNBC+, in the first quarter of 2025, reports Brian Steinberg of Variety. Steinberg writes, “The venue isn’t going to offer new shows and CNBC isn’t going to hire more staff for the venture, these people say, but the network will use the broadband outlet to make available a ‘global […]
NYTimes econ reporter Smith to write book on fallacies in American economics - Talking Biz News
New York Times economics reporter Talmon Smith has signed a book contract to write about the lies underpinning American economics and society. The book is tentatively titled “Clout and Capital” and will be published by Altria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Smith plans to take readers into Wall Street getaways and Washington backrooms, looking at local […]
Bloomberg Industry Group taps Kullgren to cover White House - Talking Biz News
Bloomberg Industry Group has named Ian Kullgren a White House correspondent. He has been covering labor and federal economic policy for Bloomberg Law, a part of Bloomberg Industry Group. Kullgren was previously a reporter on Politico’s employment and immigration team. Before joining Politico, he was a reporter for The Oregonian in Portland, Ore., and was part of a […]
AsianInvestor hires Lee as editor - Talking Biz News
AsianInvestor has hired Amanda Lee as its new editor. A story on its website states, “Based in Hong Kong, Lee joins from the South China Morning Post (SCMP), where she served as a Beijing correspondent from 2017 to 2022, specializing in China’s economy and financial industry coverage. “Prior to SCMP, she worked as a digital editor at […]
The Athletic hires Shanoff of ME of sports business coverage - Talking Biz News
The Athletic has hired Dan Shanoff as managing editor of sports business coverage. He most recently was head of content for Coaches Plus Media. He was also vice president of strategy for TeamWorks Media. Shanoff was also director of content strategy for the USA Today Sports Media Group and a columnist for ESPNW and ESPN.com. He holds […]
FT starts an India newsletter - Talking Biz News
The Financial Times has launched a new newsletter, “India Business Briefing.” The newsletter will be sent out twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays. The first two issues will be free to read online, then it will be available for premium subscribers. “India Business Briefing” will be written by Veena Venugopal, who joined the FT […]
The Free Press hires former WSJer Berman as publisher - Talking Biz News
The Free Press has hired former Wall Street Journal finance editor Dennis Berman as its president and publisher, reports Sara Fischer of Axios. Berman left the Journal six years ago to join asset management company Lazard Ltd. as a managing director in financial advisory. Berman, a Pulitzer-Prize winning editor and writer, served as the financial editor of The Journal […]
Reuters hires Lüthi to cover Swiss finance - Talking Biz News
Reuters has hired Ariane Lüthi to cover Swiss finance. Lüthi has been a 2024 Pulitzer Center Fellow and a freelancer for most of the past five years. Her work has appeared in Das Magazin, Handelszeitung, SonntagsBlick and regular contributions for the international desk of Swiss Public Broadcasting Corp. Before journalism, Lüthi was a Swiss diplomat in […]
Bloomberg Tax hires Siemons to cover financial accounting - Talking Biz News
Bloomberg Tax has hired Jorja Siemons to cover financial accounting and the Financial Accounting Standards Board. She has been at Bloomberg Law covering intellectual property and privacy law. Simons interned for Bloomberg Industry Group and the Boston Globe while in college. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University.
Consumer Reports promotes Grudo to executive managing editor - Talking Biz News
Gideon Grudo has been promoted to executive managing editor at Consumer Reports. He has been managing editor of content strategy for the past 18 months. Grudo has also been managing editor of updates. He joined Consumer Reports in 2022 after working at NBC, where he founded the shopping vertical Select. Grudo is a graduate of Florida […]
Bloomberg's Olson wins FT's Business Book of the Year - Talking Biz News
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Parmy Olson has won the Business Book of the Year award from the Financial Times and Schroders. Her book is “Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World,” which tracks the rivalry between Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind and Sam Altman of OpenAI, as they sought to apply artificial intelligence to […]
Atlanta daily hires Hurt as business reporter - Talking Biz News
Emma Hurt has been hired as a business reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She has been at Axios as a local editor in Denver but was previously a politics reporter in Atlanta for the news organization. Hurt also spent more than three years as a politics reporter for Public Broadcasting Atlanta. She also worked as a […]
WSJ taps Bobrowsky to cover Meta - Talking Biz News
Wall Street Journal reporter Meghan Bobrowsky has been tapped to cover Meta, the parent company of Facebook. She has been a tech reporter in California for The Journal since 2021. Bobrowsky interned at CalMatters, San Francisco Chronicle, Miami Herald, Index on Censorship, The Sacramento Bee, Claremont Courier and the Philadelphia Inquirer. She has also worked as a video editor, life […]
Ravindranath among the layoffs at STAT News - Talking Biz News
STAT News reporter Mohana Ravindranath is among the layoffs at the health care news organization. She joined in late 2021 and covered health tech. She previously worked at Insider and Politico. She also worked at Nextgov, Atlantic Media’s site for IT and government technology news, focusing on civilian agency technology and IT policy, with an eye toward Capitol Hill […]
Wimbish among the layoffs at FT Specialist - Talking Biz News
Whitney Wimbish is among the layoffs at Financial Times Specialist. She has been deputy editor for the past three years and before that was associate editor. Wimbish was also managing editor of BoardIQ, the FT Specialist publication for mutual fund directors. Wimbish started at FT Specialist as a reporter for FundFire, which covers the business […]
CNBC makes small number of international layoffs - Talking Biz News
CNBC has made a small number of layoffs in its international operation in London. The move is the first step made by Deep Bagchee, who started in August to run CNBC International. “In a memo to staff last week, it was announced that a small number of roles have been impacted as part of a […]
Jacobs from Bloomberg News joins CBS News - Talking Biz News
Mark Lima, vice president and Washington bureau chief at CBS News, sent out the following on Monday: Hi everyone, I’m thrilled to share that award-winning journalist Jennifer Jacobs is joining CBS News today as a senior reporter at the White House. She joins us as we continue our coverage of the transition between administrations and as we […]
Bloomberg Law's Kramer departing after 10 years - Talking Biz News
Bloomberg Law assistant team leader Alexis Kramer is leaving the news organization after a decade for a new opportunity. She has been working on the health and employment team. Kramer joined Bloomberg Industry Group in December 2014 as a senior legal editor to cover legal and regulatory issues in the technology and telecom sectors. She won two […]
Glickman now covering M&A and activism at WSJ - Talking Biz News
Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Glickman is now covering mergers and acquisitions as well as investor activists. He has been a reporter on the real-time news desk for the past year. Glickman was a reporting intern and part of the summer 2023 newsroom intern class at The Journal. Glickman is a recent graduate of Brown University, where […]
Tech site objects to Texas AG subpoena - Talking Biz News
Tech news site 404 Media is objecting to a subpoena from the Texas attorney general asking for a Google database. The founders of 404 Media write, “This subpoena undermines the free and independent press. It also highlights the fact that the alarm bells that have been raised about legal attacks on journalists in a second […]
Worley, ACBJ co-founder, has died - Talking Biz News
William “Doc” Worley, one of the co-founders of the Kansas City Business Journal and parent American City Business Journals, has died. A veterinarian, Worley established a clinic in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. Over the next 10 years, six additional clinics opened. As the practices were staffed with other vets, Worley went on to other entrepreneurial activities, […]
Kao departing FT after more than 8 years - Talking Biz News
Joanna Kao, a data journalist and software developer for The Financial Times, is leaving the publication at the end of the year. Kao, who was hired in 2016 from Al Jazeera America, and had been steering the technology/development side of FT’s visuals team. Before Al Jazeera America shut down, Kao worked there as a multimedia […]
How tech journalist Newcomer has created a $2 million business - Talking Biz News
Simon Owens interviewed tech journalist Eric Newcomer about his career and how he’s grown his newsletter business to $2 million in revenue. Owens writes, “Major CEOs like Dara Khosrowshahi at Uber and Tony Xu at DoorDash granted him early interviews, and in January 2021 he published a deeply reported, insidery look at the VC firm Andreessen Horowitz […]
O'Dwyer named FT's deputy companies editor - Talking Biz News
Michael O’Dwyer has been named the deputy companies editor at The Financial Times. He has been the chief UK business correspondent, writing about the intersection between UK business and politics and about the big issues facing British companies and their boards. He was previously the FT’s accountancy correspondent. Before that he was a reporter at the […]
Economics columnist Krugman is retiring from NY Times - Talking Biz News
New York Times opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury sent out the following on Friday: I want to take you back to Jan. 2, 2000, a day when Y2K was in the rearview mirror and the dot-com bubble burst was just around the corner, when the Dow stood at a mighty 11,500 and a New York Times Opinion columnist […]
Politico senior tech reporter Manancourt departing - Talking Biz News
Vincent Manancourt, senior technology reporter for Politico in London, is leaving for a new opportunity. He has been covering Britain’s place in the global tech policy debate as it charts its path post Brexit. Prior to this, he covered the EU’s attempts to police the digital world for Politico from Brussels, focusing on implementation of […]
WSJ's Trofimov wins Peterson Prize - Talking Biz News
Wall Street Journal reporter Yaroslav Trofimov has won the 2024 Peterson Literary Prize for his book “Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine’s War of Independence.” The winner is awarded $25,000 and the book’s publisher receives $5,000. The Peterson Literary Prize for nonfiction is a biennial international prize that recognizes the best books, […]
FT names Masters its US managing editor - Talking Biz News
The Financial Times has appointed Brooke Masters as US managing editor, based in New York, effective March 2025. She succeeds Peter Spiegel, who has been named global affairs editor. Masters will lead the FT’s news operations and story development in the US, and take responsibility for all five bureaus in the region, deploying newsroom resources […]
Politico taps Meyers as defense editor - Talking Biz News
Politico has named Jessica Meyers as its defense editor. She has been deputy standards and ethics editor since joining the news organization in 2023. Before that, she was editor in chief of Global Press in Washington. Meyers was also an editor at World Bank Group and served as an Asia correspondent in the Beijing bureau at the […]
SABEW's Best in Business competition now accepting entries - Talking Biz News
The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing is now accepting entries for its Best in Business Awards. Deadlines: Early-bird deadline — Monday, Jan. 6, 2025, at 5 p.m. ET Competition deadline — Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, at 5 p.m. ET Late deadline — Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, at noon ET New this year: After […]
Houston Biz Journal taps Pelter to be its publisher - Talking Biz News
Traci Pelter has been named publisher of the Houston Business Journal, an American City Business Journals publication. She replaces Bob Charlet, who is retiring at the end of the year. Pelter has been vice president of sales at the publication, where she has worked for the past four years. She previously spent almost 20 years at Pace […]
Longtime biz journalist Ellis is retiring - Talking Biz News
James Ellis, longtime business journalist at Bloomberg Businessweek, is retiring. He most recently has been assistant managing editor of the magazine, but he’s also been op-ed editor, chief of correspondents, senior writer and bureau chief in Atlanta and Chicago. Ellis started his career at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He joined BusinessWeek in 1980. Ellis specialized […]
How a biz magazine is dealing with politically charged times - Talking Biz News
David Mildenberg, the editor in chief of Business North Carolina, writes about how the publication is handling coverage during these politically charged times. Mildenberg writes, “Bottom line, this year fulfilled expectations that anger and division would dominate news and society, spreading negativity all around. “So how is your statewide business magazine supposed to respond in […]