Fortune hires Hays as West Coast tech correspondent
Fortune has hired Business Insider reporter Kali Hays to be its West Coast technology correspondent. She has been at Business Insider since September 2021, covering social media and based n Los Angeles. Hays previously worked at Women’s Wear Daily, where she covered media, fashion, beauty and related industries before leaving earlier this year. She joined WWD in February […]
Sports Biz Journal hires Mejia-Hilario as reporter
The Sports Business Journal has hired Irving Mejia-Hilario as a general assignment reporter. He will start Sept. 9 and will be based in Dallas. He previously was at the Dallas Morning News as a breaking business news reporter. Mejia-Hilario joined the Morning News after graduating from Wayne State University in Detroit, where he was managing editor of […]
Post-Gazette hires Rubin as a business reporter
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has hired Maddy Rubin as a business reporter. She is covering small business and nonprofits. Rubin previously was a 2024 Texas Tribune reporting fellow during her senior year at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She previously interned at Northwestern Magazine and the Medill Investigative Lab. Her work has also appeared in The Palm […]
Iskandar, former FT correspondent, dies at 57
Samer Iskandar, a former Financial Times correspondent, died on Aug. 13 at the age of 57. Youmna Melhem Chamieh of the FT writes, “Samer was a financier, teacher, researcher and journalist. To try to sum up his career across so many industries, roles and locations is a challenge perhaps only he could have risen to. […]
Reuters seeks an autos correspondent in San Fran or Detroit
Reuters is looking for a U.S.-based reporter to join our global automotive team. The sector is undergoing a historic change with the transition to electric vehicles and the effort to develop self-driving technology. Tesla has proven an EV leader but is now pivoting to robo taxis as it struggles with falling sales and stiff competition […]
Peers to receive Minard Award
Martin Peers, co-executive editor of The Information, will receive the 2024 Lawrence Minard Editor Award from the Gerald Loeb Foundation. Created in memory of Lawrence “Laury” Minard, founding editor of Forbes Global and a former final judge for the Loeb Awards, this award recognizes excellence in business, financial and economic journalism editing. It honors an editor whose […]
Henriques to receive Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award
The 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient is Diana B. Henriques, retired senior writer for The New York Times. The Lifetime Achievement Award from the Gerald Loeb Awards recognizes a journalist whose career exemplifies the consistent superior insight and professional skills necessary to further the understanding of business, financial and economic issues. With a career spanning more than five decades, Henriques […]
Loeb finalists named for 2024
The Gerald Loeb Awards banquet and celebration will be held on Thursday, Oct. 10, at the Rainbow Room in New York City.The winning journalists and outlets in each competition category will be announced during the banquet and not in advance. The following Loeb Awards finalists were selected from 491 entries, representing the work of over 200 journalists […]
How the business press doesn’t understand M&A
Karl Bode of Techdirt writes about the business news media’s recent coverage of Kroger’s pending acquisition of grocery store chain Albertsons. Bode writes, “Kroger (and tell me if you’ve heard this one before) is pinky swearing that increased consolidation in the already consolidated grocery space will increase jobs, boost competition, and lower prices for consumers. […]
Dallas Morning News hires Womack to cover retail
The Dallas Morning News has hired Brian Womack to cover retail. He previously was at the Dallas Business Journal covering technology and a senior marketing writer at Amazon Web Services. Womack previously worked as one of Bloomberg’s reporters in San Francisco, spending nine years covering companies such as Alphabet, eBay, Facebook, HP, Oracle, Twitter and Yahoo. Prior to […]
