WSJ’s Wallace to take on City of London beat

Joe Wallace has taken on the City of London beat for The Wall Street Journal, covering European finance and banking. Wallace previously wrote about commodity markets with a specialty in secretive traders of Russian oil. He joined The Journal in 2020 and previously worked at Dow Jones Newswires and WSJ City. He was also a […]

Grossman returns to WSJ to cover economy

Matt Grossman has rejoined the The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires to cover the economy. Grossman left The Journal in August 2023 to join The Rohatyn Group as an assistant vice president. He had been at The Journal for three years covering markets, including debt and commodities, and also worked at The Commercial […]

Blanco departs CNNBusiness for IRS

Octavio Blanco, an editor at CNNBusiness, has left the website to become a media relations specialist at the Internal Revenue Service. Blanco had been at CNNBusiness since June 2023 and before that spent five years at Consumer Reports as a multimedia content creator. He had earlier worked for CNN Money, which was the predecessor to […]

Dow Jones Newswires names Ziobro deputy editor for Americas

Paul Ziobro has been promoted to deputy chief Dow Jones Newswires editor for the Americas. He had been from breaking news editor at The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires in New York. He will continue to report to Josée Rose. Ziobro was previously a reporter in the Journal’s corporate bureau, where he wrote […]

St. Cloud Times hires King as a biz reporter

The St. Cloud (Minn.) Times has hired Teagan King to cover business and economic development in the greater St. Cloud area. Alice Mannette of the Times writes, “King most recently worked as a business reporter and newsletter writer at Missouri Business Alert in Columbia, Missouri, covering topics such as local businesses and drought impacts on farmers. […]

WSJ’s Mitchell to cover global economy

Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell has shifted beats in London to cover the global economy. Previously, Mitchell wrote about the finance industry in London. He previously spent 14 years in the Journal’s D.C. bureau, writing about the U.S. economy and the student debt boom. In 2016, the Education Writers Association named him the nation’s […]

Former Free Press biz editor, Pulitzer winner dies at 93

David C. Smith, a former business editor at the Detroit Free Press who was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the city’s 1967 riot, has died at the age of 93. Jamie L. LaReau of The Free Press writes, “With a degree in hand, Smith embarked on a career in […]

SABEW selects 10 for economic data workshop

Ten business journalists were selected for the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing’s 2024 Goldschmidt FRED advanced data workshop on Oct. 14-15 in St. Louis. The Fellows will visit the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis during the program to learn about economic data. During the workshop, they will learn about different types of […]

Bloomberg seeks a startups and VC reporter

Bloomberg News is seeking a talented, dedicated and creative reporter to join our award-winning team in San Francisco or New York to cover the venture capital industry and startups, including (but not limited to) funding and innovation in artificial intelligence, semiconductor technology, consumer apps and enterprise tools. We’re looking for someone eager to break news […]

WSJ seeks a markets news editor

The Wall Street Journal is seeking a high-energy news editor for a role at the heart of our newsroom: financial-markets coverage. Our ambitious markets team delivers news, analysis and ideas to readers throughout the day–at the speed and tempo of the ever-changing financial markets. You’ll have the full gamut of editing and publishing responsibilities: working […]