WSJ names Thomas its lead deals reporter
Lauren Thomas has been named lead deals reporter at The Wall Street Journal. She is also covering shareholder activism. She consistently breaks market-moving news about the biggest deals across all industries. Some of her scoops have included Exxon Mobil’s $60 billion deal for Pioneer Natural Resources, Capital One’s $35 billion deal for Discover Financial, Mars’s $30 […]
Masters departing The Hollywood Reporter for Puck
Kim Masters, editor at large at The Hollywood Reporter, is departing to join Puck. Masters is also host of KCRW’s “The Business.” A former correspondent for NPR, she has also served as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, TIME and Esquire, and was a staff reporter for The Washington Post. She is the author of […]
CNBC International seeks a VP/Executive editor for digital
The VP, Executive Editor, Digital is responsible for the editorial direction of digital content for CNBC International (EMEA & APAC regions). This includes defining and setting the content strategy for digital, overseeing the reporting and editing of text, video, and graphics on CNBC.com, and serving as a custodian of the CNBC brand. This role leads […]
Bloomberg seeks a reporter in Hong Kong
Bloomberg News is one of the biggest financial and business news organizations in the world. We lead the way in breaking news and providing analysis on financial markets, from real-time coverage through to in-depth enterprise. We are known for our quality, accuracy and ability to deliver news investors can use. It’s what keeps us inventing […]
Bloomberg seeks a reporter to cover European real estate
Bloomberg News is looking for a real estate reporter based in London to cover the commercial property market across Europe. We’re seeking someone with excellent news judgement, a deep network of sources and an ability to connect the dots between individual transactions and what they mean for the wider real estate market. The successful candidate […]
WSJ seeks a senior editor for world coverage
The Wall Street Journal is seeking a high-energy news editor for a role at the heart of our newsroom focused on world coverage. You will work collaboratively with our world bureaus and breaking news team to ensure we are first or fast the stories that matter most to our readers. You will be part of […]
Politico hires Weizman to cover European trade policy
Politico has hired Jakob Weizman to cover trade policy in Europe. He will start in January and be based in Brussels. Weizman has been freelancing for The European Correspondent in Kosovo. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Rochester Institute of Technology and master’s degrees from Aarhus University and Charles University.
CNBC will keep its name after spinoff
Business news channel CNBC will keep its name after it and other operations are spun off from parent Comcast, reports Oliver Darcy in his Status newsletter. Darcy reports, “With regard to CNBC, the powers at be have rendered a decision. I’m told by a person with direct knowledge of the matter that CNBC will be permitted to keep its name […]
When Bloomberg took on Nikkei in Japan
Former Bloomberg News executive Ted Merz writes about when the news organization entered Japan and took on Nikkei. Merz writes, “It was going to be a steep climb as Nikkei had 1,000 reporters covering Japanese companies versus Bloomberg’s six. “At that time, companies ‘released’ earnings by dropping a sheet of paper into a ‘mailbox’ for each […]
How WSJ’s Gershkovich continued to report
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich writes about his time in a Russian prison and the man who put him behind bars. Gerhskovich writes, “When I was arrested by Russia’s security forces in 2023—the first foreign correspondent charged with espionage since the Cold War—I never stopped reporting. On my release I set out to identify the man who had […]
