FT hires Bhandari as news graphics journalist
The Financial Times has hired Aditi Bhandari as a news graphics journalist. Bhandari spent the last five years at Reuters as a data visualization specialist where she conceived, designed and coded custom-designed pages, data-led graphics and maps. She has also worked at the Hindustan Times in Mumbai and WAMU 88.5 in Washington. Bhandari holds a […]
Bloomberg hires Karra as a senior reporter
Bloomberg News has hired Krishna Karra as a senior reporter. He will work on the visuals team specializing in remote sensing and satellite imagery analysis. Karra is a data scientist focused on earth observation, satellite imagery and remote sensing. He’s also an adjunct professor at The Cooper Union and teach a graduate level class called “Fundamentals of Remote […]
Why CNBC isn’t helpful to viewers
Andrew Feinberg writes for Slate about how financial news channel CNBC actually hurts investors. Feinberg writes, “You don’t need to know the investing record of CNBC experts to be suspicious of what passes for on-air wisdom. Four stock pickers, including Dewardric McNeal of Longview Global LLC and Barbara Doran of BD8 Capital Partners, recently mispronounced Nvidia […]
Reuters wins Polk Award for Musk coverage
The staff of Reuters has won the George Polk business reporting award for penetrating reports on nefarious practices at companies owned by multi-billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. The reporters documented a spate of injuries and the death of a worker at SpaceX and poor treatment of laboratory animals at Neuralink, Musk’s brain-implant company. Other stories found […]
Bloomberg Television hires Bercetche to anchor
Joumanna Bercetche has been hired Bloomberg Television as the new anchor of “Daybreak Middle East and Africa,” starting in April and based in Dubai. “Daybreak Middle East and Africa” provides audiences with a daily spotlight on one of the world’s fastest-growing regions, with the latest global markets and analysis, plus news-making interviews. “The quality of […]
The pressures that business journalists face
Chris Hedges of “The Chris Hedges Report” spoke with Gretchen Morgenson, a senior financial reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit who previously worked for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times where she won a Pulitzer Prize, about the issues in journalism. Here is an excerpt: Chris Hedges: Yeah. I used to say, that […]
Gelbspan, exposed oil and gas company efforts to deny global warming, dies at 84
Ross Gelbspan, an investigative journalist whose climate change reporting exposed a campaign of disinformation by oil and gas companies, has died at the age of 84. Trip Gabriel of the New York Times reports, “In a second book, ‘Boiling Point’ (2004), Mr. Gelbspan was tough on his own profession, accusing reporters of laziness in falling for […]
Bridge Michigan hires Allen as deputy editor
Leslie J. Allen has been hired by Bridge Michigan as a deputy editor. Allen has spent decades in business journalism, including more than 15 years at Automotive News, where she led the mobility team, which covers emerging automotive technology, including electrified and autonomous transportation, and was editor-in-chief of its Shift magazine. She was part of […]
Law360 laid off 10% of its editorial staff
Law360 laid off 10% of its editorial staff, reports Natalie Korach of The Wrap. Korach writes, “Law360 is a subscription-based, legal news outlet delivering breaking news and analysis. It is operated by Portfolio Media, Inc., a subsidiary of LexisNexis, which acquired Portfolio Media in 2012. “In December, unionized editorial staffers for Law360 held a one-day […]
Law360 reporter Enfinger among the layoffs
Emily Enfinger, a reporter at Law360, was among the layoffs on Thursday. Enfinger been with Law360 since June 2022 focusing on insurance litigation. Most of her journalism experience, however, is in breaking news and crime. She was the crime beat reporter at The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, La), Tuscaloosa News (Tuscaloosa, Ala.), Opelika-Auburn News (Opelika, Ala.) […]
