Why The Verge’s Patel is ranting on his podcast
The Verge editor in chief Nilay Patel talks on his podcast about why he’s ranting more. Here is an excerpt: They’re just essays. I know they’re rants and they’re delivered on YouTube and they’re very pointed in particular ways. But that’s just what I would’ve written as a column 10 years ago before we had podcasts this […]
WSJ to launch economics newsletter featuring IP
The Wall Street Journal is preparing to launch an economics newsletter featuring chief economics correspondent Greg Ip. The newsletter will be sent on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It will start next week. Ip has been writing about the intersection of economics, markets and politics for more than 40 years. His first job was on the Vancouver Sun‘s metro […]
Bloomberg hires Salisbury as editor on money, management & equality team
Bloomberg News has hired Ian Salisbury as an editor on its money, management and equality team. He has been at Barron’s since April 2024 as a senior investing writer. Before that, he worked on Buy Side, the Wall Street Journal’s affiliate-driven shopping and review site, where for the past two years he oversaw money coverage. Previously, Ian […]
FT Specialist hires Jones as reporter
Stacy Jones joined Financial Times Specialist on Monday. She will be covering intuitional investors and financial advisors for the leading trade publications FundFire and Financial Advisor IQ. Jones was most recently markets editor at Decrypt, where she covered digital assets, institutional finance and related regulatory developments. She also previously covered the intersection of institutional investing […]
Washington Post hires Doyle for White House team
Washington Post Politics & Government Editor Nick Baumann, Deputy Politics & Government Editor Jennifer Liberto, White House Editor David Lauter and Deputy White House Editor Katy Burnell Evans sent out the following on Monday: We’re excited to announce a new hire for our White House team who will sharpen our daily coverage of the Oval […]
Yahoo Finance anchor Lipton departs
Yahoo Finance anchor Josh Lipton is leaving the news organization after three years and is looking for another opportunity. “What I do best is taking complicated subjects and making them simple, understandable and interesting, whether on-camera or in print,” he wrote on LinkedIn. “I enjoy having real conversations, and telling stories that people want to watch and […]
Bloomberg makes changes in UK, sports biz coverage
Bloomberg News chief content officer Heather Harris, head of media editorial Dave Merritt and EMEA editorial lead Jackie Simmons sent out the following on Monday: We’re excited to announce three new assignments across digital, the UK and Business of Sports. *Vic Wakely, our first UK National Editor who masterminded the launch of Bloomberg UK more […]
Dykes hired as editor in chief of SCBiz
David Dykes has been hired as editor in chief of SCBiz, a Bridgetower Media publication in South Carolina. He has been editor of Greenville Business Magazine, Columbia Business Monthly and Charleston Business Magazine. He has worked at The Greenville News, Charlotte Observer and newspapers and magazines in Arizona, Ohio, North Carolina and Georgia. He was assistant business editor at the Observer […]
Hall laid off as editor of Weekly Real Estate News
Longtime financial journalist Phil Hall was laid off from his job as editor of Weekly Real Estate News after three-and-a-half years. “It was quite a heave-ho,” said Hall. “Last Tuesday, publisher John G. Stevens did not pay me as per our scheduled arrangement (I was a contractor) and would not acknowledge my multiple attempts over […]
The Treasury secretary’s tense relationship with biz reporters
Maxwell Tani of Semafor writes about the tense relationship between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant and the financial media that cover him. Tani writes, “But his rift with Bloomberg is part of a tense and distant relationship between the powerful Cabinet secretary and the press corps that covers him, which includes both high-profile finance reporters and the […]
