Axios hires Baysinger to cover media deals
Axios has hired Tim Baysinger from The Wrap to cover media deals and help write a daily newsletter. He will start next week. Baysinger has been at The Wrap since April 2018 as a senior television reporter. He previously worked at Reuters and at Adweek, where he covered digital media. He also spent more than four years […]
Politico seeks a tech policy reporter
Politico is seeking an enterprising, entrepreneurial journalist to cover the intersection of the technology industry with Washington policy and politics, with a focus on privacy and data protection. This reporter will cover the debates brewing among regulatory agencies, Congress, the White House, states and tech companies pushing to shape the rules of the road. You’ll […]
Zahir to focus on Instagram content for WSJ
Sorayah Zahir, a social media editor at The Wall Street Journal, is shifting her job to focus on Instagram. She will be creating stories and posts for the Journal’s Instagram account. Before joining the publication full time two years ago, Zahir was a digital media intern for the Journal. Zahir was also a marketing and communications intern […]
Industry Dive will reach $100 million in revenue in 2022
Business news newsletter publisher Industry Dive is on pace to generate between $105 and $110 million in revenue this year, reports Mark Stenberg of Adweek. Stenberg writes, “The publisher has a network of 53 business-centric newsletters serving 22 different industries. They reach 2.5 million free subscribers through its mix of 25 daily and 28 weekly email products, […]
STAT News hires Herman from Axios to cover health care business
STAT News has hired Axios reporter Bob Herman to cover hospitals, health insurance and other health business stories. He will start on Feb. 28. Herman has been at Axios for the past five years covering the finances, policies and politics of the health care industry. Previously, he was the Midwest bureau chief for Modern Healthcare and a […]
J&J tried to get federal judge to block a Reuters story
Johnson & Johnson tried to get a U.S. judge to block Reuters from publishing a story based on what it said were confidential company documents, report Maria Chutchian and Tom Hals of Reuters. Chutchian and Hals report, “‘The First Amendment is not a license to knowingly violate the law,’ said the company in a filing late Thursday in U.S. Bankruptcy […]
NY Times hires WSJ’s Audi as enterprise editor
New York Times national editor Jia Lynn Yang sent out the following on Monday: I’m very excited to announce that Tammy Audi will be joining National as enterprise editor. Tammy joins us from The Wall Street Journal, where since 2018 she has been the deputy on the Journal’s Enterprise desk (formerly known as Page One), […]
Blockworks reporter Melinek talks about the crypto beat
Blockworks reporter Jacquelyn Melinek spoke with UNC-Chapel Hill professor Andy Bechtel about covering cryptocurrencies as a beat. Here is an excerpt: Q. How is covering crypto and decentralized finance different from other beats in business journalism? A. Crypto is its own world unlike any other I’ve worked in, but I love reporting on it and being involved in the space. […]
Chappatta named team leader for Bloomberg’s billionaires coverage
Bloomberg News has named Brian Chappatta as the team leader for its billionaires coverage. Brian Chappatta He has spent the last four years in Bloomberg Opinion as a columnist writing about the debt markets. He was also interim team leader for Bloomberg’s U.S. investing team focusing on hedge funds, private equity, endowments, and asset managers. He has […]
San Antonio Biz Journal seeks a real estate reporter
The San Antonio Business Journal is looking for a reporter to cover commercial and residential real estate. The real estate beat is the essence of top-level reporting. It requires building — and working — strong source networks, to uncover deals before anyone else and report both the dollar value and the broad impact of new […]
