Former P-I biz columnist finds work in Tacoma

Bill Virgin, the business columnist at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer when it closed its print edition earlier this year, will begin writing a Sunday column for the Tacoma News-Tribune. An item in the Tacoma paper states, “Beginning a week from today, former P-I business columnist Bill Virgin will write a column for our Sunday business section. […]

Professors criticize biz media for lack of labor coverage

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE A panel of journalism professors criticized the business media for its declining coverage of U.S. labor unions and labor-related issues. “Labor is no longer a regular area of coverage,” said Bonnie Brennan of Marquette University. “Labor reporting is nearly extinct.” The panel occurred Friday in Boston at the Association for Education […]

N&O real estate reporter becoming editor of sister paper

Jack Hagel, the real estate reporter for The (Raleigh) News & Observer, is becoming the editor of The Cary News and the Southwest Wake News, papers owned by the News & Observer. Hagel writes, “I’ve seen the region’s once-droopy downtowns catch a second wind. And I’ve seen how a credit crunch has killed that momentum. […]

Seattle P-I biz reporter leaving to do corporate research

Andrea James, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer business reporter who stayed on with its Web operations when it stopped publishing, is leaving for a job doing corporate research. James writes on her blog, “If you’d told me last year –- nay, last quarter -– that I’d quit my journalism job to go work for an investment bank, […]

Minyanville hires former Portfolio.com deputy editor

Former Condé Nast Portfolio.com deputy editor Megan Barnett will join Minyanville.com as deputy editor, according to a release. Barnett will lead the business and finance news reporting and analysis for Minyanville.com.  “We’re proud to welcome Megan to the Minyanville team,” said Minyanville Founder and CEO Todd Harrison. “We embrace her smart, quick-witted style and are […]

From business journalist to financial planner

Joe Grimm, who writes a column on HR issues in journalism for the Poynter Institute, profiles former Providence Journal assistant business editor David McPherson, who made the career switch to financial planning two years ago. Here’s a snippet: How long between jobs: None. I left The Providence Journal in early January 2007 and immediately went […]

CBC to launch new business program

CBC in Canada plans to launch a new business news show in the fall featuring Amanda Lang, according to a release. Lang has been host of Business News Network’s “SqueezePlay” and “The Commodities Report.” Her career also includes stints at CNN in New York, and as a business writer at the Financial Post, and the […]

Milwaukee paper's business columnist takes buyout

Tannette Johnson-Elie, the business columnist for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, has accepted the paper’s buyout and will be leaving the paper, reports Rich Kirchen of the Milwaukee Business Journal. Johnson-Elie, one of the few black business columnists at daily newspapers in the country, previously wrote about small and minority-owned businesses and diversity issues. Her last column appeared in […]

Raleigh biz reporter leaving for local tech company

Jonathan Cox, a business reporter at The (Raleigh) News & Observer for the past seven years, is leaving the paper to go work for a local tech company — a beat he once covered. Business editor Mary Cornatzer wrote to the staff: “He’s joining Lulu.com on Hillsborough Street, a different kind of publishing company, to […]

Ex-Entrepreneur staffer goes off about his experience

Jason Fell of Folio reports that a former reporter for Entrepreneur, Dennis Romero, was fired last week and then penned a 4,100-word response on his blog. Fell reports, “While Romero admitted his unhappiness at the magazine, he vehemently denied the charge of failing to carry out his duties as a writer. ‘I will cede the […]