Kitchen departs WSJ to launch sexual health wellness site
Matthew Kitchen, the Off Duty gears and gadgets editor at The Wall Street Journal, has left the newspaper to launch a sexual health and wellness site. He will be the managing editor and plans to hire four staffers, including a deputy. Ktichen has been at the paper since November 2017. He previously was at Men’s […]
Business Insider hires RIttenhouse as a senior reporter
Business Insider has hire Ad Age reporter Lindsay Rittenhouse as a senior reporter on its advertising and media team. She has been at Ad Age for the past year, before that, she was at Adweek, specializing in covering the world of agencies and their clients. Rittenhouse also covered the consumer beat at TheStreet.com and as […]
Wanneh joins Inside Health Policy as drug pricing reporter
Gabrielle Wanneh has joined Inside Health Policy as its drug pricing reporter. Prior to that, Wanneh was an editorial intern at Politico and Education Week. She also worked as a reporter for Capital News Service. Wanneh graduated from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor’s in Journalism in 2019.
Obusan becoming project manager for Bloomberg’s New Voices
Claire Obusan is becoming project manager for Bloomberg’s New Voices initiative, which aims to train underrepresented people to appear on television and other media. She previously had been with Bloomberg Quicktake, first as New York senior producer and regional lead and then as global planning editor. She earlier was a line producer at Bloomberg Television for […]
Washington Post names McAuley a contributing columnist
The Washington Post has named James McAuley a contributing columnist to its Global Opinions section. Beginning this week, the Paris-based journalist and former France correspondent for The Post will write about European political and social affairs. “For the last few years, James has done thoughtful reporting that has vividly captured the cultural and political tensions […]
Talking Biz News Today — Jan 11, 2021
Some of Monday’s top business news stories: Associated Press New law cracks down on shell companies to combat corruption, by Joshua Goodman Semiconductor shortage forces automobile production cuts, by Tom Krisher, Michael Liedtke CNN Nearly 4 million Americans have been out of work for at least six months, by Tami Luhby Corporate America halts donations […]
Maggi hired by E&E News to be editor on natural resources team
Laura Maggi has been hired as an editor at E&E News to be an editorial on its natural resources team. She starts on Monday. She had been the managing editor at Route Fifty, which covers state and local government issues. Before joining Route Fifty, Maggi was the metro editor at The Advocate newspaper in Baton Rouge, […]
WBBM Newsradio biz editor Walter is retiring
Len Walter, the business editor of WBBM Newsradio in Chicago, is retiring later this month. A story on its website states, “Since 1982, Walter has been the all-news station’s business and financial editor. He made history by becoming the first journalist to broadcast regularly from what we now know as the Chicago Stock Exchange. “After […]
Indianapolis Biz Journal’s Harton becomes custom content editor
Tom Harton has been named custom content editor at the Indianapolis Business Journal. He had been contributing editor. Harton joined IBJ in 1984, fresh out of Indiana University’s School of Journalism. He covered banking, real estate and the business of sports before becoming associate editor in 1988. He became managing editor the following year and […]
Fox to wary advertisers: Bartiromo is “hard-hitting journalism”
Fox News has tried to assured worried advertisers about blowback that its talent such as business-oriented anchor Maria Bartiromo, reports Justin Baragona, Maxwell Tani and Andrew Kirell of The Wrap. Baragona, Tani and Kirell write, “The network selling Bartiromo as a face of its journalism is especially eyebrow-raising considering the famed financial reporter’s years-long descent into full-on Trump […]
