WSJ names advertising editor, hires reporter
The Wall Street Journal has promoted Suzanne Vranica to advertising editor and hired Mike Shields from Adweek to work on a special project with more details to be released later Vranica has been with the Journal since 2003. Her coverage areas include advertising companies such as Omnicom Group Inc., WPP PLC, Publicis Groupe and Interpublic […]
Reuters.com seeks social media editor
Reuters.com is looking for a journalist with social media savvy and impeccable news judgment to manage its editorial social media distribution and live blogging efforts around breaking news. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in social media and innovative audience development efforts but a traditional sense of news judgment, a strict adherence to […]
Bloomberg seeks Japanese language journalists in Tokyo
Bloomberg is seeking Japanese-language journalists in Tokyo. The Tokyo bureau produces breaking news stories on business and general-interest topics, ranging from company earnings, stock market reports, merger and acquisition news and politics to natural disasters. The successful candidate will be able to meet real-time deadlines. Knowledge of the economy, financial markets and business is key. […]
Bloomberg seeks editor for credits market
Bloomberg News is seeking an Editor for our First Word Rates and Credits service, based in our New York office. The individual in this role will be responsible for reporting on new issues in the corporate bond, structured finance or leveraged loans market, tracking deal flow and pricing developments from the announcement through the pricing […]
Bloomberg Businessweek seeks design editor
Bloomberg Businessweek is seeking a design editor. The person in this role will have oversight of all design and data visualization for Businessweek.com. Additionally, this person should have experience with designers and developers. This role will be responsible for writing, editing and creating a design destination on the web and in the magazine that is […]
BuzzFeed hires WSJ data reporter Singer-Vine
Ricard Bilton of Digiday reports that BuzzFeed has hired hired Wall Street Journal data reporter and programmer Jeremy Singer-Vine, who helped produce the Journal’s data-heavy ‘What They Know’ digital privacy series and its investigation into nuclear processing and storage facilities. Bilton reports, “His role at BuzzFeed will be to dig into similarly dense data sets to find the kinds […]
Why Business Insider is expanding to England
Rachel Bartlett of Journalism.co.uk writes about the planned Business Insider expansion into Great Britain. Bartlett writes, “As for the introduction of a UK team, Hansen told Journalism.co.uk that there were a number of reasons why the Insider was keen to set up in the UK. “For a start, UK traffic to the site is ‘significant’, […]
Re/code hires Chmielewski from LA Times
John Corrigan, assistant managing editor for arts and entertainment at the Los Angeles Times, sent out the following staff announcement on Wednesday: After a great run at The Times covering entertainment and technology, Dawn Chmielewski is leaving to work for the tech news startup Re/Code. Among her many memorable stories, Dawn chronicled Disney’s struggles with […]
Why journalism schools should teach tech reporting
Tech journalist David Cohn writes for The Poynter Institute about why journalism schools should have technology reporting classes. Cohn writes, “Technology isn’t something students should learn because ‘it’s the future.’ Students can learn about technology because it will be their beat and they want to be good reporters. When students aren’t even paying attention, they’ll […]
What makes for a top post on Forbes.com
Lewis Dvorkin, the chief product officer at Forbes, writes about the stories on its website that get the most reads. Here are some of his conclusions: 1) Reporting Matters: Staff reporter Parmy Olson’s exclusive rags-to-riches story of WhatsApp founder Jan Koum hit the Top 15 four times — a full week after it was first published. […]
