The Economist taps Owen as head of social media

The Economist has named Isobel Owen as its head of social media. Owen has been a senior audience editor helping adapt The Economist’s journalism for social media and other digital platforms. She collaborates with colleagues within the Audience team and across the newsroom to reach new audiences and engage our current subscribers by leading on push alerts. […]

CNN taps Gold to cover media in New York

CNN’s Hadas Gold has moved to New York and is now covering media. She was CNN’s Jerusalem correspondent. Gold reported extensively on the drastic internal political changes happening in Israel, from the unprecedented protest movement against the Israeli government’s judicial overhaul plan, to Benjamin Netanyahu’s historic corruption trial and loss of the premiership in 2021, as well […]

Washington Post names Brown deputy editor of rapid response I-team

The Washington Post announced Monday that Emma Brown will be deputy editor of the rapid-response investigations team. While serving as interim deputy editor of the team this year, Brown shepherded a reconstruction of Ted Leonsis’s decision to move the Washington Wizards and the Capitals to Northern Virginia, resulting in a gripping, behind-the-scenes narrative account of months […]

Darmiento now covering aerospace for LA Times

Los Angeles Times reporter Laurence Darmiento is now on the aerospace beat. He has been covering wealth, deals and dealmakers for the publication. Darmiento joined the Times in 2015 as an assistant business editor. He previously was editor of the San Fernando Valley Business Journal. Prior to that, he spent six years as managing editor of the Los Angeles […]

Fortune hires Goldman to cover artificial intelligence

Fortune magazine has hired Sharon Goldman to cover artificial intelligence. She will start this week. Goldman has been a senior reporter at VentureBeat for the past two years. Goldman previously worked as a freelance writer and was published in CIO.com, Business Insider, Adweek, Modern Jeweler, Workspan, and ALM Media/Law.com, among other publications. She is a graduate of George Washington […]

Quartz hires Fabbro has staff writer

Financial news site Quartz has hired Rocio Fabbro as a staff writer, its sixth new hire in the last eight weeks. Prior to joining Quartz, Fabbro was a breaking news reporter on The Messenger’s business team, covering labor, workplace, markets, and banks. She previously interned at Foreign Policy, CNBC, and Salon. Born in Buenos Aires […]

Cahillane departs Adweek after three years

Mollie Cahillane, Adweek’s senior TV reporter, is leaving the publication after three years. She has been covering the business of connected TV, streaming news, measurement and sports media. She’s a former Cablefax editor, and has held roles at People and Daily Mail. Cahillane is a graduate of Northwestern University.

El Dahan named Gulf bureau chief for Reuters

Maha El Dahan has been named Gulf bureau chief for Reuters. She will start her new position on April 1. She will still be overseeing energy coverage in the Middle East. EL Dahan reports on energy and commodities across the Middle East region. She has been working as a Reuters journalist for the past 15 years […]

VentureBeat’s Goldman departing for new opportunity

VentureBeat senior reporter Sharon Goldman is leaving the publication for a new opportunity. Goldman has been covering artificial intelligence and machine learning. She writes, “The good news is that I will still be covering AI — a beat that I have come to deeply enjoy and respect over the past two years. But it is bittersweet: Not […]

Lee departs Bloomberg for Creditflux

Bloomberg News reporter Lisa Lee is leaving the news organization to join Creditflux as deputy editor. She will start her new job on April 22. She has been covering the credit markets and has been with Bloomberg since April 2017. Before Bloomberg, Lee worked at Reuters Breakingviews as a senior correspondent and columnist for more than six […]