The Information hires Ramaswamy to cover finance

Martin Peers, New York bureau chief for The Information, sent out the following on Wednesday: Folks, We’re thrilled to announce that Anita Ramaswamy is joining The Information as a financial analysis writer, based in San Francisco after an initial stint in New York. Anita comes to us from Reuters, where she has been writing for the […]

The Information hires Yang to cover crypto

Meredith Mazzilli, an editor at The Information, sent out the following on Wednesday: Team, We’re thrilled to announce that Yueqi Yang will be joining The Information as a crypto reporter based in New York. Yueqi comes to us from Bloomberg, where she’s been covering crypto exchanges and the intersection of crypto and Wall Street for […]

The Information finance editor Becker is departing

Nate Becker, the finance editor at The Information, will be leaving the publication next month. Becker joined The Information in September 2022. He previously was at The Wall Street Journal, where he helped lead the paper’s renowned team covering deals and Wall Street. He also ran the breaking news desk at the Journal and first […]

Bloomberg News hires LaCapra as editor on markets desk

Bloomberg News has hired Lauren Tara LaCapra as an editor on its markets desk. She has been at The Information as its lead Wall Street reporter. She has spent nearly two decades as a business journalist, including a decade at Reuters, where she was one of the senior editors managing the global finance and markets team. Before she became […]

The Information rolls out redesign

Jessica Lessin, the editor in chief of tech news site The Information, writes about its redesign. Lessin writes, “Overall, we redesigned more than 200 pages—a massive undertaking from our incredibly talented team. “When we launched 10 years ago, we offered subscribers one type of article: exclusive news about the most important tech companies. Today, a […]

The Information hires Brown to be its weekend magazine editor

The Information has hired Abram Brown to be its weekend magazine editor. He has been a deputy editor at The Messenger for the past six months. He previously had been at The Information to work on its weekend magazine, covering wealth, power and technology and how those shape culture and the world. Brown previously had been at […]

The Information hires Friday to cover private equity

The Information has hired Francesca Friday to cover private equity. She will start on Jan. 2. Friday was previously a New York-based reporter and the producer of Due Diligence, the FT’s daily briefing on corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions, and private equity. She was previously a senior reporter at FT Specialist publication Mandatewire, where she covered asset management. […]

Steinberg leaving The Information for San Francisco Standard

Jon Steinberg, who launched and edited The Information’s weekend section, is leaving the tech news site to become executive editor of the San Francisco Standard. The weekend section covers tech, culture, parenting and other topics. He joined The Information from Epic Magazine, a division of Vox Media, where he was a creative director. He has also […]

How The Information has thrived in the past decade

Charlotte Klein of Vanity Fair writes about tech news site The Information, which was founded 10 years ago by Wall Street Journal reporter Jessica Lessin. Klein writes, “The small-but-mighty Silicon Valley publication, which turns 10 this week, has spent the past decade rolling out ad-free scoops and analysis to a targeted audience willing to cough up $399 […]

Bloomberg hires Graf to cover courts in San Francsico

Bloomberg News has hired Rachel Graf from The Information to cover courts in San Francisco. She had been be reporting on private equity, including firms such as Blackstone, Thoma Bravo, Silver Lake, Vista, KKR and Apollo, for The Information. Graf also worked at law firms where she investigated fraud at publicly traded companies. Prior to joining the […]