Fortune promotes Royle to success associate editor
Orianna Rosa Royle has been promoted to success associate editor at Fortune. She has been with the magazine since January 2023. Royle was inspired to start writing about success—and how those with it, attained it—after her own experience escaping poverty and trying to enter the corporate world with zero help. She was the first in […]
Barnett, former Bond Buyer reporter, dies at 67
Retired Bond Buyer reporter Harold “Chip” Walter George Barnett Jr. died on Monday at the age of 67. Keeley Webster of Bond Buyer writes, “Barnett’s nearly half century career as a financial journalist included two stints at The Bond Buyer, first early in his career and then again from 2014 to 2024. He retired on April […]
Bloomberg hires Eastland as a reporter
Bloomberg News has hired Maggie Eastland as a reporter. She will be covering oil markets. Eastland previously interned for Bloomberg. She also interned at The Wall Street Journal and at the Dallas Morning News. She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame.
Let’s stop covering everything about Zuckerberg, Altman and Musk
Public relations executive Ed Zitron argues that the business media is doing a disserve to society by covering everything it can about technology executives Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman and Elon Musk. Zitron writes, “The reason that Elon Musk is able to lie and get away with it is that a far-too-large chunk of the press seems dedicated […]
TechCrunch honors former staffer O’Hear
Tech news site TechCrunch has posted a memorial to its former staffer Steve O’Hear, who died recently after a brief illness. The memorial states, “Steve brought his A-game to this organization every day he worked here and was a huge part of what made (and makes — you can read his 3,210 posts, a veritable magnus […]
Sports Business Journal seeks an assistant editor
The Assistant Editor will hold a variety of responsibilities across Sports Business Journal’s products. The Assistant Editor will be responsible for searching sites every morning, highlighting stories, budgeting and line-editing stories for SBJ’s digital editions. This person also will assist in writing captions and building the SBJ homepage as needed. This person will also oversee […]
Albuquerque Biz First editor Nichols named ACBJ director of editorial training
Meagan Nichols, editor-in-chief of Albuquerque Business First, has been named director of editorial training for the paper’s parent company, American City Business Journals. She joined the Albuquerque paper in 2021. Nichols was previously managing editor of sister paper the Memphis Business Journal, a position she held since November 2019. Prior to that role at the MBJ, she […]
Reuters remembers death of colleague Abdallah
Reuters editor in chief Alessandra Galloni spoke on the one-year anniversary of the death of staff journalist Issam Abdallah. She stated, “It has been one year since Israeli tank fire killed our colleague Issam Abdallah. On this first anniversary of his death, we call once again on Israel to investigate his killing fully and transparently, […]
Former TechCrunch journalist O’Hear dies at 49
Former London tech journalist Steve O’Hear has died at age 49 after a short illness. Amy Lewin and Freya Patty of Sifted write, “O’Hear worked for TechCrunch for over a decade and covered the rise of many of the UK’s most successful tech businesses, like Monzo and Wise. He left in 2021 to join food delivery scaleup […]
Washington Post hires Najmabadi as breaking biz news reporter
Washington Post business editor Lori Montgomery, deputy business editor Sandhya Somashekhar, business breaking news editor Robbie DiMesio, deputy business breaking news editor Sergio Non and weekend business editor Helen Fessenden sent out the following on Monday: We’re excited to announce that Shannon Najmabadi is joining The Post as a breaking news reporter on the Business desk, […]
