Why The Plug is covering Black and brown tech companies

Hanaa’ Tameez of Nieman Lab writes about The Plug, which covers Black and brown technology companies and is led by Sherrell Dorsey. Tameez wrties, “Dorsey launched The Plug in 2016 as a daily, curated newsletter that shared stories about Black startups. By 2018, just after Dorsey graduated from Columbia’s computational journalism program, she delved into […]

New website to launch to cover NY cannabis industry

Advance Media New York, which owns The Post-Standard and operates Syracuse.com, is launching New York Cannabis Insider, a subscription-based website to cover the state’s cannabis industry. The site is set to target “C-Suite influencers, industry group leaders, lobbyists, politicians and political influencers, legal and security experts, banking and medical experts, and business owners.” Revenues are […]

Canary Media: Mainstream media undercovers climate crisis

Eric Wesoff, the managing editor at Canary Media, writes about the importance of its mission in covering climate and energy news. Wesoff writes, “Meanwhile, we’re working on growing our newsroom by bringing on more journalists. We’re adding diversity to our team and coverage areas. We’re expanding to report on more industries, technologies, policy ideas, trends […]

Myers named editor in chief of personal finance site The Balance

Kristin Myers, a Yahoo Finance anchor who left earlier this month, has been named editor in chief of personal finance site The Balance. The Balance was founded in 2016 and has more than 19 million monthly visitors. “I am so excited to take this next step in my career and to continue having important conversations […]

How Quartz is using membership to fund journalism

Aisha Majid of The Press Gazette writes about how Quartz is using a membership model to fund its journalism. Majid writes, “While on the face of it Quartz’s membership programme might more closely resemble a subscription (the content is behind a paywall), Frick says that the publication’s relationship with readers is more than just transactional. “‘The […]

Digital media startup Puck hires business journalists

Puck, a new digital media company that plans to cover the intersection of America’s power centers: Hollywood, Silicon Valley, New York City and Washington, has hired at least four business journalists, reports Sara Fischer of Axios. They are: Dylan Byers, formerly a senior media reporter at NBC News for the past three years. He also worked […]

Reuters adds new sections to its website

Reuters has introduced a series of new editorial sections to its update, including the global economic recovery, the future of health, next-gen technology and more. Editors of each section will curate news and specialist insights, offering both depth and breadth on the issues that shape the future of our personal and professional lives. The new […]

PYMNTS seeks a senior business reporter

Respected digital news publication seeks senior business reporter/writer who can either pitch, source, and deliver stories and breaking news articles OR easily embrace wide-ranging assignments for a daily newsletter and website that serves as the global payments and e-commerce industry’s go-to news source. Successful candidates will have strong business reporting experience, be comfortable juggling diverse […]

Tech news site Futurism has been acquired

Recurrent Ventures is set to announce later on Monday that it has purchased Futurism, the tech and culture-focused news site previously owned by Singularity University, a Google and Deloitte-backed technology business, reports Maxwell Tani and Lachlan Cartwright of The Daily Beast. Tani and Cartwright report, “The purchase of Futurism marks the latest acquisition for Recurrent Ventures, […]

Saskatchewan biz news site launches

AllSaskatchewan.com, a business news site covering the Canadian province, has launched. Alex MacPherson, a Saskatchewan business journalist, leads a team that includes Peter Lozinski, also in Saskatoon and Evan Radford and Nathan Meyer in Regina. The online publication will follow the subscription model successfully established in Atlantic Canada back in 2001. AllSaskatchewan is available at […]