Bloomberg seeks energy markets editor in Dubai

Bloomberg News is seeking an experienced editor for our expanding coverage of energy markets news, particularly oil markets, across the Middle East and Africa. The job will be based in Dubai. The successful candidate will work with a number of experienced reporters as well as freelancers across both regions and will integrate fully with European-based […]

Loeb Award winners for 2014 announced

The following is a list of the 2014 Gerald Loeb Award recipients, which were handed out Tuesday in New York: Beat Reporting Winner “Duke Energy and Nuclear Power in Florida,” by Ivan Penn, Tampa Bay Times Breaking News Winner “Bangladesh,” by Jim Yardley, Julfikar Ali Manik, and Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times Commentary Winner […]

North Carolina daily seeks business reporter

The StarNews in Wilmington, N.C., is seeking a reporter to cover retail business, tourism and general assignments in Brunswick, New Hanover and Pender counties, with an increase in focus on the rapidly growing Brunswick and Pender areas. This position also requires a weekend shift covering police and other breaking news. To apply, send a cover […]

Phoenix Biz Journal seeks finance and economics reporter

The Phoenix Business Journal, a thriving and growing news organization, is looking for a reporter who can break news before it happens and tell readers what it means on all of our platforms — web, social media, video and print. Our reporters own and expand their audiences by every measure. We’re looking for strong journalism […]

Walmart takes on NYTimes columnist

Jason Abbruzzese of Mashable writes that Walmart is in a tiff with New York Times columnist Timothy Egan about a column he wrote regarding its pay scale. Abbruzzese writes, “The response, which can be found in its entirety below, takes issue with some of the factual assertions of Egan’s column, including how much the average […]

Effron names new company news editor at Reuters

Dayan Candappa, editor of the Americas for Reuters, sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: Eric Effron is the new Company News Editor for the Americas and his mission is to get everyone in this region thinking about ways to tell corporate stories. Eric, who moves into his role on August 1st, knows he faces […]

FT names Bond its U.S. media and marketing correspondent

Shannon Bond has been appointed U.S. media and marketing correspondent for the Financial Times, effective June 30. In her new role she will cover content and distribution companies, digital media and the broader advertising and marketing industries. Bond joined the FT in 2008 and has since served as a general assignment reporter, most recently covering […]

Quartz aims for profitability

Roger Yu of USA Today writes about Quartz, the business news website from The Atlantic. Yu writes, “Quartz’s challenges include amassing more stories, as well as more readers and advertisers (it has about 60 of the latter). The site doesn’t post enough content to sustain a long-term business, says Ken Doctor, a news industry analyst […]

Bloomberg journalist in China resigns

Peter Hirschberg, deputy managing editor of economy and government coverage in Asia, has resigned from Bloomberg News. Hirschberg worked in the Hong Kong bureau. Other journalists have left Bloomberg’s Hong Kong operations in the past year after the company did not publish stories critical of people connected to the Chinese government. One of the Bloomberg […]

Bloomberg strikes partnership in Brazil

Brazilian financial news site InfoMoney  announced Tuesday a partnership with Bloomberg LP to provide extensive global business content, in Portuguese. The new digital platform infomoney.com.br will provide news, photos and videos from Bloomberg throughout the site. “The partnership with Bloomberg reinforces the commitment to provide the best content to our readers and to democratize the access […]