Yahoo Finance starts personal finance show aimed at veterans

Yahoo Finance is starting a personal finance show aimed at military veterans. “Warrior Money” is co-hosted by Patrick Murphy and Dan Kunze. The show is a new series that offers financial planning and investment advice specific to the often overlooked veteran community. The first show will air on Nov. 18, and future episodes will air […]

CT Mirror seeks an environment and energy reporter

The Connecticut Mirror (CT Mirror), a nonprofit, nonpartisan, digital newsroom that covers statewide public policy and politics, has an immediate opening for a full-time Environment and Energy Reporter. This beat will be an integral part of our broader policy coverage, which includes education, human services, health care, housing, and economic development, among other topics, and […]

Harnessing the power of AI at Dow Jones

Ingrid Verschuren, executive vice president of data and artificial intelligence and general manager of Europe, Middle East and Africa at Dow Jones, talked about how the parent of The Wall Street Journal and MarkWatch.com is using artificial intelligence in a live recording of the Digiday Podcast. Tim Peterson of Digiday writes, “If generative AI is […]

Houston energy reporter Drane moves to investigations team

Houston Chronicle energy industry reporter Amanda Drane has moved to the investigations team from the business desk. Drane joined the Chronicle in 2020 from The Berkshire Eagle. Previously, Drane was working as a reporter for the Daily Hampshire Gazette. She also served as a staff writer at The Valley Advocate and as a freelance writer, photographer […]

Houston Chronicle seeks an energy transformation reporter

As global demand shifts toward renewable energy and sustainability, the role of Houston’s energy sector is evolving rapidly. We are seeking an Energy Transformation Reporter to cover the dynamic changes within the industry—tracking how traditional oil and gas companies are adapting to new energy landscapes, from renewable investments to cutting-edge technologies like hydrogen, carbon capture, […]

Business Insider founder Blodget is leaving company

Business Insider founder Henry Blodget sent out the following on Friday: Team, Seventeen years ago, in the early days of Business Insider, I learned about the “startup-founder life-cycle.” First you had to create a product people loved. Then you had to build a business to support it. Then you had to hire an amazing team. […]

Dow Jones reports slight increases in revenue, earnings

Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com, Barron’s and Investor’s Business Daily, reported a 3% increase in revenue and a 6% increase in operating income for the first quarter. The company, a subsidiary of News Corp., reported revenue of $552 million and EBITDA earnings of $131 million, up from $537 […]

The Independent hires Baragona as senior reporter

The Independent has hired Justin Baragona as a senior reporter. He will be covering the intersection of media, culture and politics. Baragona will start later this month. Baragona previously worked for Zeteo News and was a media reporter at The Daily Beast. He is also the founder and publisher of Contemptor, a site focusing on the intersection […]

Econ Reporting Hardship Program sets up Ledbetter Fund

Author and editor James Ledbetter was a beloved friend, Economic Hardship Reporting Project Board member and key ally in the fight for a more just America. He was a wildly generous editor and mentor to other journalists, most notably to those who have historically found the media industry less than hospitable, starting with the distaff […]

FT names Brower US news editor, Edgecliffe-Johnson departing

Financial Times editor in chief Roula Khalaf sent out the following on Friday: Hello everyone I’m pleased to share with you two appointments on the US news desk. They come at a critical moment in US politics, and will build on the outstanding work done under the leadership of Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson and Derek Brower in the year leading up to Tuesday […]