The Information is launching five new newsletters
The Information is launching five new email newsletters beginning Monday, spanning topics around business, finance and tech, reports Sara Fischer of Axios. Fischer reports, “The first two new topic-specific newsletters, ‘Reality Check’ and ‘The Information China,” will focus on tech. Reality Check, authored by reporter Mathew Olson, will be sent four times per week. It debuts Monday with […]
CoStar hires Cheng to cover New York real estate
Real estate news service CoStar has hired reporter Andria Cheng to cover the New York market. She started on Monday. Cheng has been a senior contributor to Forbes and a freelancer for the past three years. Before Forbes, she was at eMarketer to help it start a retail news product. Cheng left MarketWatch and The Wall Street […]
Pulitzer winner Pearlstein ends Washington Post column
Economics columnist Steven Pearlstein, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2008 columns that explained the financial crisis, is ending his column at The Washington Post. Pearlstein writes, “In recent years, I’ve sometimes heard myself saying the same things to editors or readers who write in with a column suggestion. I find myself gravitating to the […]
Idaho paper seeks ag and business reporter
South-central Idaho’s largest news provider is seeking a reporter ready to jump into covering one of our signature beats: agriculture, environment and business in the Magic Valley. We are an ag-centric area that includes dairies, sugar beets and, yes, potatoes. Chobani built the world’s largest yogurt factory here, and Clif Bar opened its first in-house […]
Keane departs FT to join forces with Garcia
Aimee Keane of the Financial Times has left the news operation. Keane is joining with former colleague Cardiff Garcia to start an audio production company. “We’ll have a show a little like the one we used to make together, and we have some ideas that will sound completely new,” she wrote on Twitter. “We’ll also be taking on […]
Gizmodo news editor Menegus laid off
Tech site Gizmodo has laid off news editor Bryan Menegus. “My colleagues were some of the best, smartest people on their beats and I’ll miss them dearly,” he wrote on Twitter. Menegus joined Gizmodo in February 2016 covering internet culture, became a senior reporter focusing on labor and most recently switched to editing. He previously […]
VC reporter Bernard is departing The Information
Zoe Bernard, a reporter at The Information covering venture capital, is leaving the tech news organization. Bernard plans to freelance. She previously covered startups and tech culture at Business Insider before joining the Information in early 2019. She was based in the New York bureau. Bernard had been with Business Insider since October 2017, first as an […]
The Information reporter Matican is departing for marketing job
Ross Matican, a reporter at tech news site The Information, is leaving for a marketing job. Matican is joining Carta Inc. as its first-ever corporate affairs research analyst. He joined The Information in June 2020 covering tech and markets. Matican was previously a reporting intern for The Information in San Francisco. He recently graduated from Carleton College and […]
Stone promoted to reporter at Law360
Law350 has promoted Rachel Stone to a reporter covering employment at the news operation. She previously was a news apprentice and a news assistant at Law360, where she has worked for the past two years. Stone also worked at The New Republic as a fact checker and a researcher. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University […]
Bloomberg Media tests charging for virtual events
Bloomberg Media is now experimenting with charging for its online events, writes Sara Guaglione of Digiday. Guaglione reports, “Like other publishers that sought a lifeline as the Covid-19 pandemic enforced stay-at-home orders, Bloomberg Media began offering virtual events in March of last year, but were free to attend to keep its captured audience engaged, in addition to […]
