Adweek hires Business Insider’s Joe as editor in chief

Adweek has named Ryan Joe as its new editor in chief. He will report to chief content officer Zoë Ruderman. Joe has covered the advertising industry extensively for more than 15 years, examining the challenges, practices, and business of data-driven marketing, most recently serving as senior advertising editor at Business Insider. “As our new editor […]

TechCrunch hires Temkin to cover VCs and startups

TechCrunch has hired Marina Temkin to cover venture capital firms and startups. She has been at Pitchbook for the past three years, based in San Francisco. Previously with Venture Capital Journal, Temkin wrote about the VC industry, and she was a reporter with Mergermarket in New York and San Francisco. She also has been a financial analyst […]

Barron’s hires Ungarino to cover Wall Street

Barron’s editor in chief David Cho sent out the following on Monday: All, We are excited to announce Rebecca Ungarino is joining Barron’s as the newsroom’s Wall Street reporter. Rebecca comes to us from Business Insider, where she served as a senior finance reporter covering asset management companies and other Wall Street firms. She produced several scoops on BlackRock, including […]

Inside Health Policy hires Brown as a reporter

Inside Health Policy has hired Jalen Brown as a reporter covering the Affordable Care Act, COVID-19, and Congressional health care news. He has been at Bloomberg Government covering finance, policy and Congress. Brown previously was a digital writer at CNN. He interned as a labor and employment reporter for Bloomberg Industry Group. He also interned for Forbes. Brown holds a […]

Inside prison life for WSJ’s Gershkovich

Matthew Campbell of The Sunday Times in London looks at Russia prison life for Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. Campbell writes, “As a high-profile American inmate, Gershkovich may be spared some of the worst conditions. He celebrated New Year’s Eve with a few mandarins he managed to buy in a prison shop. When he turned […]

FT hires Mark as South Africa bureau chief

The Financial Times has hired Monica Mark to be its South Africa bureau chief. Mark has been the Christian Science Monitor’s Africa editor, based in Johannesburg. A British-Nigerian, she has reported from more than 20 countries in Africa, with a particular interest in offbeat longform stories. She was previously Johannesburg bureau chief for The New […]

Business Insider’s Cunningham joins Newsweek as executive editor

Jennifer H. Cunningham has been hired by Newsweek to be executive editor. Cunningham will oversee all news content and strategy and report directly to global editor-in-chief Nancy Cooper. Cunningham will collaborate with a team that embodies the core values of fearless and responsible journalism. Cunningham was previously the editor-in-chief of the news division at Business […]

Puterbaugh departs CNET for Bankrate

John Puterbaugh, the senior editorial director for tech news site CNET, is leaving for a position at personal finance site Bankrate. Both are owned by Red Ventures. Puterbaugh has also been senior editorial director of NextAdvisor, the personal finance site of Time.com. He also worked at Reviews.com, McClatchy, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times. […]

Denver Biz Journal ME Rourke departs

Christine Rourke, the managing editor of the Denver Business Journal, has left the publication. She joined in January 2023. She previously served as deputy editor at the Denver Gazette where she coordinated the story planning, editing and writing that went into the production of the daily newspaper. Prior to her arrival at the Denver Gazette, […]

How John Huey changed Fortune

John Huey, the former head of Fortune magazine, spoke with George Gendron of the “Print is Dead” podcast about the changes he made at the magazine. Here is an excerpt: George Gendron: Wait, it “might have happened?” You were there!  John Huey: Yeah, but I’m an old guy and this was a long time ago. […]