Aviation reporter Skores is leaving the Dallas Morning News
Dallas Morning News aviation reporter Alexandra Skores is leaving for a new opportunity. Her last day is Nov. 5. She previously covered breaking business news before taking over the aviation beat in 2023. She previously interned for the Morning News and The Oregonian in Portland. Skores is a graduate of the University of Iowa, where she was managing editor of […]
Times of London taps Taggart to cover retail
Emma Taggart is now covering the retail beat for The Times of London. Taggart joined The Times in autumn 2022 as a business reporter graduate trainee. She is from County Derry and has previously worked at The Irish Examiner and TheJournal.ie. She is a graduate of Trinity College in Dublin.
Washington Post seeks a media editor
The Washington Post is looking for a media editor to lead a team of reporters on breaking stories and enterprise features about the fast-paced, vital and continuously evolving world of modern news media. The ideal candidate will bring a thoughtful yet urgent approach rooted in deep knowledge of the contemporary media scene, and be able […]
Dallas Morning News hires Richie as breaking biz news reporter
The Dallas Morning News has hired Sasha Richie as a breaking business news reporter. Richie has been a sports digital producer for the publication. She has previously worked for the news department at Car and Driver magazine and served as the sports managing editor of The Duke Chronicle. Richie graduated from Duke University in 2023 with a […]
Travel news site Skift has laid off eight staffers
Travel industry news site Skift has laid off eight employees, including one editorial staffer, our of more than 90 employees. “Skift has initiated a small restructuring to better align our resources with our strategic goals for 2025 and beyond,” said CEO and founder Rafat Ali in a message. “We remain profitable with double digit growth […]
How WSJ mismanagement put Gershkovich at risk
Maxwell Tani of Semafor writes about how a complicated if mundane Wall Street Journal management mess in Moscow and security decisions in New York may have put reporter Evan Gershkovich at risk. Tani writes, “Journal veterans who spoke to Semafor believe the Journal was naive in three ways. “First, Yekaterinburg isn’t a normal Russian city. It is […]
WSJ seeks a retail investing reporter
The Wall Street Journal is seeking a reporter to cover retail investing in New York. Day trading exploded during the pandemic when people were stuck at home and pocketing extra cash from stimulus checks, while apps like Robinhood made trading easy and fun. These days, investors bet on everything from digital tokens they know have […]
Study: Media consolidation reduces diversity of business news coverage
Business news outlets owned by the same media holding companies produce more similar news stories covering companies’ earnings announcements, reducing the amount of unique news content available to investors, according to a recent study. The study also suggests that fewer unique sources of news make investors less efficient at interpreting and processing information in earnings […]
How the Worcester Biz Journal got its start
Worcester Business Journal publisher Peter Stanton writes about the publication’s beginning. Stanton writes, “Fast forward to 1989 and the real estate bubble had burst and a full-fledged Savings & Loan crisis ensued, dragging down banks, developers, and many others in its wake, including the then out-of-state owners of Business Worcester. With the company on the rocks, […]
WSJ’s Dennis hired by NPR
Yvonne Dennis has joined NPR as senior editor for editorial review. Dennis came to NPR from the Wall Street Journal, where she spent nearly two decades as a news editor, editing print and digital content. In addition to her work at the Journal, she has been an adjunct professor of journalism at Temple University, the Craig […]
