Moisson named ME of FT’s Ignites Europe

  Ed Moisson has been promoted to managing editor of Ignites Europe, the FT’s news service for the European asset management industry. He will oversee daily newsgathering and editorial operations at Ignites Europe. Moisson was previously associate editor of Ignites Europe, which he joined in 2015. He is the author of “The Economics of Fund […]

LinkedIn investing more in journalism and news

LinkedIn is investing more in journalism and news amid a broader pullback by tech rivals from the industry, editor-in-chief Dan Roth told Sara Fischer of Axios. Fischer reports, “Professional-grade content from journalists and publishers is often used as a starting point for everyday LinkedIn members to engage more, Roth said. Because of the company’s professional focus, political and polarizing […]

FT’s Barnes to cover US biotech, pharma and health care

Financial Times reporter Oliver Barnes is moving to the United States to cover biotechnology, pharmaceutical and health care companies. He will be based in New York. Barnes has been the FT’s leisure industries correspondent based in London. He covers hospitality, gambling, tourism, tobacco and cannabis companies. He previously covered health and science for the FT. He was […]

CNBC expanding Make It personal finance brand

CNBC is expanding its its Make It personal finance brand, which it launched in 2016, with new ventures like a weekly TV series and online classes, reports Alex Weprin of The Hollywood Reporter. Weprin reports, “Now the company is bringing the brand to other platforms, including a weekend TV series based on some of the digital […]

Wired seeks a multiplatform producer in London

The Producer, Multiplatform is responsible for creating vertical videos from ideation to delivery and across multiple platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, WIRED.com, and other emerging social platforms. This role will both curate archival assets and create original video, working closely with WIRED’s integrated US/UK newsrooms to identify reporting across our verticals that has the […]

Bloomberg hires Mann as reporter in DC

Bloomberg News has hired former Wall Street Journal reporter Ted Mann in Washington. Ted Mann was a reporter in the Journal’s Washington bureau. He previously covered General Electric and other industrial conglomerates for the corporate bureau in New York. Mann was the transportation reporter for the Greater New York section of The Wall Street Journal and is […]

WSJ reporter Saeedy moves to banking beat

Wall Street Journal reporter Alexander Saeedy is now covering banking. He previously covered credit markets, financial distress and sovereign debt for WSJ Pro. Before The Journal, he was at Reorg covering corporate bankruptcy. Saeedy previously was a senior reporter for Leveraged Commentary & Data. Prior to joining LCD, he was a journalist at Euromoney’s New York offices, reporting breaking news […]

NY Times hires Grind as tech investigations reporter

New York Times business editor Ellen Pollock sent out the following on Tuesday: We’re delighted to welcome Kirsten Grind to The New York Times. She starts later this month as a tech investigations reporter in San Francisco. Kirsten joins from The Wall Street Journal, where she was an enterprise reporter. In her 12 years at The Journal, […]

Loeb Awards seeks entries

The UCLA Anderson School of Management and the G. and R. Loeb Foundation invite all journalists and all print, online and broadcast/streaming media outlets to submit entries in 12 competition categories for the 2024 Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. Nominations will also be accepted for two career achievement honors, the Lifetime […]

Shachtman returning to Wired as contributing editor

Katie Drumm, global editor in chief of Wired, send out the following on Tuesday: Hi All — I’m very, very excited to share that the one and only Noah Shachtman is returning to WIRED as contributing editor. Noah was most recently the Editor-in-Chief of Rolling Stone, which he reinvigorated over two-and-a-half years, leaning hard into […]