Economics reporter Omeokwe among the WSJ layoffs
Wall Street Journal economics reporter Amara Omeokwe was among the layoffs in the Washington bureau on Thursday. Before joining the Journal in 2019, she was at “Morning Edition,” NPR’s flagship morning program. Previously, she worked for Time Warner Cable News in North Carolina as a video journalist/reporter covering general assignment and breaking news stories. Omeokwe shot, wrote, narrated […]
How China censors bad economic news
Daisuke Wakabayashi and Claire Fu of The New York Times write about how the Chinese government censors bad economics news. Wakabayashi and Fu write, “Mr. Xiao, the research scientist, said he started noticing in the latter half of 2023 that Chinese censors were quicker to take down many financial news articles. Among them: a December article on […]
Bloomberg Canada hires Zhao-Murray as economics data editor
Bloomberg’s Ottawa bureau has hired Jay Zhao-Murray to be its economics data editor. He starts Feb. 5. He has been a foreign exchange analyst for Monex Canada for the past two years. Previously, he was a research assistant at the Bank of Canada and a consultant at MNI. His commentary has been featured by news outlets that […]
Politico moves Smith-Meyer to senior finance correspondent
Politico Europe fintech correspondent Bjarke Smith-Meyer has been named senior finance correspondent, where he will cover the political world of finance and the economy. He has been with Politico since 2016 and spent the last two years covering financial technology and crypto. He started off covering regulatory risk and policy decisions that target financial services […]
Barron’s seeks Fed and economics senior writer
Barron’s is seeking an experienced journalist to cover the economy by writing analyses of major economic news events as they are happening and enterprise that reveals what those events mean for the broader economy, companies, financial markets and the pocketbooks of ordinary Americans. You Will: Lead our coverage of the Federal Reserve and cover other […]
MNI hires Garcia as Latin American central banking correspondent
MNI has hired Larissa Garcia to be its Latin Amerian central banking correspondent. Garcia will be based in Brasilia. She will initially focus on the region’s two most closely watched monetary authorities — Banco Central do Brasil and Banco de Mexico. Garcia previously worked at financial newspaper Valor Economico, where she covered the Brazilian central bank […]
Economics workshop offered for biz reporters in Chicago
The Concordia Free Enterprise Center, Economics Wisconsin, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago invite you to attend the Economics for Opinion Leaders: Journalists & Media Professionals program being held Feb. 4-6 in Chicago. All members of the media are encouraged to apply for this award- winning educational seminar. There will be an opening reception […]
Why the news media is important to the economy
J.J. Colao is the founder of Haymaker Group, and a former Forbes staff writer, writes for Fortune about the importance of news coverage to the economy and business. Colao writes, “If investors are constantly tricked into diverting capital towards ineffective companies, and customers are routinely deceived into buying shoddy products, the whole economic engine breaks […]
Bloomberg News wins Hinrich Award for trade reporting
Bloomberg News has won the 2023 Hinrich Foundation Award for Distinguished Reporting on Trade from the National Press Foundation for a series of comprehensive reporting on a variety of trade issues — from AI advancements, Brazil choosing China over the U.S. for a factory plant and an in-depth analysis on decoupling from China. The contributors include Shawn […]
Bloomberg taps Pickert as deputy team leader for Fed team
Bloomberg News reporter Reade Pickert has been named an editor and deputy team leader for its Federal Reserve team. She has been covering the economy for the past four-plus years. Pickert is a University of Virginia graduate in international relations and affairs and economics. While there, she worked on The Cavalier Daily as a reporter. She previously interned for Bloomberg as […]
