Dallas real estate reporter Butler becomes food and events editor
Anna Butler, a real estate reporter at the Dallas Morning News, has become the newspaper’s food and events editor. She joined the Morning News in January after working at the Dallas Business Journal as its managing editor and real estate editor. Butler also worked as corporate transactions reporter at the Texas Lawbook, director of operations […]
CNBC Make it names Leibowitz senior director of video
Jessica Leibowitz has been named senior director of video for CNBC Make It. She previously was a senior producer, launching the new online courses venture “Smarter” and the TV show “Unlocked” in 2024. She received a Webby Honoree in 2020 for her work producing the popular series “Millennial Money.” Leibowitz was previously a senior producer for […]
WSJ seeks associate SEO editor
The Wall Street Journal is looking for a dynamic Associate SEO editor to play an essential part in driving the daily news conversation, with a focus on ensuring that the Journal is leading the conversation in Search. The Associate SEO Editor works with different bureaus and audience teams across the newsroom to help expose more […]
NYU biz journalism program names new class
The New York University business and economics reporting master’s program has named the cohort for its new class starting in September. They are: Julaiza Alvarez graduated Cum Laude with a B.A. in Mass Media Arts from Clark Atlanta University in 2023. As a contributing writer, she wrote features, op-eds, and profiles of Black women-owned businesses and […]
PCMag hires Wired’s Henry as managing editor
PCMag has hired Alan Henry as its managing editor. He will start on Aug. 19. Henry is currently the director of special projects at Wired in New York City. He was previously Smarter Living editor at The New York Times and editor in chief of Lifehacker. He is also the author of the book “Seen, Heard, and Paid: […]
Ziff Davis is acquiring CNET for $100 million
Ziff Davis inked a deal to acquire CNET for about $100 million, marking the third corporate parent for the pioneering tech news and reviews site in four years, reports Todd Spangler of Variety. Spangler writes, “In 2008, CBS had acquired CNET Networks for $1.8 billion. In 2020, as Paramount Global (then known as ViacomCBS) was seeking to offload non-core assets, […]
Consumer Reports hires Kravitz as deputy editor
Joel Keehn, director of content for special projects at Consumer Reports, sent out the following on Tuesday: Please join me in welcoming Derek Kravitz to CR! He joins the Special Projects team as our new reporter and writer covering the Digital Marketplace, including how AI is and will be affecting consumers. He will be working closely […]
Bloomberg’s Webb departs for graduate school
Alex Webb, who has been with Bloomberg News for 13 years, has left to attend graduate school at Stanford. In his most recent job, he wrote the weekly documentaries for Bloomberg Originals, turning the best of Bloomberg News’s global coverage into compelling shorts that secure a bigger audience than almost anything else the newsroom produces. […]
Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel News to stop publishing
The parent of Broadcasting & Cable and Multichannel News said it will stop publishing the two publications at the end of September. A SmartBrief newsletter on media and entertainment, plus a reformatted nexttv.com website, will launch on Oct. 1. “This industry is going through rapid transformation that requires our business to adapt,” said Future B2B […]
Zhao hired as deputy ME for CNBC International
Christina Zhao has been hired as deputy managing editor of CNBC International, based in the Singapore bureau. Previously, Zhao worked as politics editor for NBC News, based in New York. Zhao was also a senior editor at Newsweek, where she also worked as a deputy news editor and news reporter, covering China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, […]
