Payments Dive seeks a reporter

Payments Dive seeks a sharp, experienced Reporter to provide timely, insightful coverage of the payments industry, including its reach into banking and technology. This will include breaking news coverage, enterprise reporting and in-depth features analyzing the trends and issues important to top executives at major payments players. You’ll produce daily briefs and articles that follow […]

Biz reporter Bodine departs Fort Worth Report

Fort Worth Report business reporter Seth Bodine has left the news organization for a new opportunity. Bodine joined the Fort Worth Report in February 2022. He previously covered agriculture and rural issues in Oklahoma for the public radio station, KOSU, as a Report for America corps member. Bodine graduated with bachelor’s degrees in journalism and English creative […]

Law360 union files unfair labor practice claims

Unionized editorial workers, represented by The NewsGuild of New York at LexisNexis-owned Law360, have taken legal action over planned layoffs that would affect 10 percent of their union. The union filed an unfair labor practice charge at Region 2 of the National Labor Relations Board in New York. On Feb. 27, the union voted to […]

SABEW names Best in Business winners

The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing announced Thursday the 147 recipients of its 29th annual Best in Business Awards, honoring excellence in business journalism from 2023. The Best in Business Awards attracted 1,103 entries from 181 news organizations, ranging from international, national and regional news outlets to specialized business publications. Thank you to […]

Brooks retiring from LA Times after 42 years

Nancy Rivera Brooks, deputy business editor of the Los Angeles Times, is retiring from the newspaper after 42 years. Rivera Brooks has shaped the business desk’s culture and coverage. Staffers across the newsroom turn to Rivera Brooks for her keen understanding of economics, real estate and the environment. Reporters throughout the department adore her kind […]

9fin seeks a distressed debt reporter

Technology has revolutionized equity markets with electronic trading, quant algos and instantaneous news. However, in debt capital markets, the picture is completely different. It still behaves like it’s in the 1980s; trillions of dollars of trades are placed over the phone, news is slow, and corporate credit information is imperfect and scattered. Our mission is […]

Cherney to lead WSJ standards and ethics team

Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker sent out the following on Thursday: Dear all, I am delighted to announce that Elena Cherney is now Senior Editor of the Wall Street Journal and will lead our Standards and Ethics team. In this role, as a vital part of the Journal’s senior leadership, Elena will advise me […]

Santillana moves to careers beat at Forbes

Forbes reporter Maria Gracia Santillana is moving to the careers beat. She has been a reporter on the Money team covering cryptocurrency, NFTs, blockchain technology. Santillana has also co-edited the 30 Under 30 Retail and E-commerce and Food & Drink lists. She has been at Forbes since June 2022. Santillana holds a bachelor’s degree from New York […]

Pollard joining AP’s biz news desk to cover philanthropy

Associated Press reporter James Pollard is joining the wire service’s business desk to cover philanthropy. Pollard will cover how new generations and technology are changing giving. He currently covers state government and inequality for the AP in Columbia, South Carolina. Before joining the Report for America corps, he earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism and political science […]

What we can learn from lawyer’s letter to Business Insider

Bill Grueskin, a longtime business journalist, writes for Columbia Journalism Review about what can be learned from the letter sent to Business Insider regarding its coverage of plagiarism allegations against Neri Oxman. Grueskin writes: Do give subjects of your complicated stories time to respond.  After BI’s first Oxman story ran, the site quickly assembled another […]