FT hires Venugopal as India newsletter editor
The Financial Times has hired Veena Venugopal as its India newsletter editor. She has been working at Apple as an editor. Venugopal previously worked at The Hindu and LiveMint. She was also an associate editor at Outlook Publishing. Venugopal holds an MBA from the SP Jain Institute of Management & Research.
FT taps Parkin to be Middle East and Africa news editor
Benjamin Parkin has been named Middle East and Africa news editor at the Financial Times, based in London. He was previously in India for the FT for five years between 2019 and 2024. He started as a correspondent covering corporate India in Mumbai, before moving to New Delhi as South Asia correspondent to cover regional politics, […]
Wired strikes partnership with 404 Media
Wired has struck an exclusive partnership with 404 Media, a tech news site launched last year by former Motherboard journalists. Wired and 404 Media will co-publish two exclusive articles a month that will cover topics including hacking, cybersecurity, cybercrime, AI, consumer rights, surveillance, privacy, and more. This partnership allows for two newsrooms to reach an […]
Bloomberg seeks a Saudi Arabia reporter
Bloomberg’s Middle East News team is fast and innovative, and our mission is to deliver news to readers as quickly as possible, enabling our audience to stay fully informed when making decisions. We are seeking a reporter with strong news judgment and a deep knowledge of Middle East economies and companies to work in our […]
Bloomberg seeks an Asia credit reporter in Seoul
Bloomberg News is one of the biggest financial and business news organizations in the world. We lead the way in breaking news and providing analysis on financial markets, from daily coverage to in-depth features. We are known for our quality, accuracy and ability to deliver news investors can use. It’s what keeps us inventing and […]
How Ledbetter got interested in business journalism
Richard Sandomir of The New York Times looks at the career of business journalist James Ledbetter, who died last week at the age of 60. Sandomir writes, “Ledbetter was a senior editor at Time magazine; a web editor at Fortune and later the editor of The Big Money, a business spinoff of Slate, the online magazine. The […]
Bloomberg seeks a Fed and US economy reporter
The Federal Reserve, the world’s most powerful central bank, has begun lowering interest rates after its most aggressive campaign to tame inflation since the early 1980s. How quickly and deeply will Fed officials cut? Can they bring inflation back to target without tipping the US economy into recession? How are the Fed’s decisions affecting American […]
Pacific Business News hires Meierdiercks as editor in chief
The Pacific Business News, an American City Business Journals publication, has hired Janis Magin Meierdiercks as its editor in chief. She has been director of communications at the University of Hawaii Foundation for the past three years. Previous editor Kam Napier had led the publication for more than 10 years before leaving more than a month ago. Meierdiercks […]
Sifted reporter Nowshin departs
Sadia Nowshin, a reporter at European startup news site Sifted, is leaving to join literary and cultural magazine Boundless. Nowshin has been covering foodtech, biotech and startup life and has been at Sifted for two years. She previously interned at The Guardian. Nowshin holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of Warwick.
Variety promotes Shanfeld to TV reporter
Variety has promoted Ethan Shanfeld to TV reporter. William Earl of Variety writes, “Shanfeld joins the entertainment industry’s largest team of business news reporters covering the fast-evolving world of TV content. His focus will be reporting on activity and trends in the creative community and dealmaking among top networks, streamers and studios. He will also put special […]
