Tesla joins S&P 500

After reporting five consecutive quarterly profits, Tesla Motors has become the latest addition to the S&P 500 index. Julia La Roche from Yahoo Finance reported: Shares of Tesla (TSLA) jumped more than 10% in the after-hours session on the news that the electric carmaker is set to join the S&P 500. On Monday evening, the […]

Talking Biz News Today — Nov. 17, 2020

Some of Tuesday’s top business news stories: Associated Press Home Depot reunites with HD Supply in deal valued at $8B, by Michelle Chapman Huawei selling Honor phone brand in face of US sanctions, by Joe McDonald, Zen Soo CNN Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway makes big bets on drug stocks, by Paul R. La Monica Airbnb […]

Digiday’s Modern Retail hires Waters to cover Amazon

Modern Retail has hired Michael Waters as a reporter primarily covering Amazon.com He will focus on the ins and outs of the reinvention of the retail industry, from Amazon’s strategic shifts to the new in-store experience. Waters has written for The Atlantic, Wired, Vox, and other publications.  He previously worked for the newsletter The Hustle, and before […]

Crypto journalists form organization

A group of veteran cryptocurrency journalists comprising representatives from the sector’s largest publishing firms – The Block, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Decrypt and Forbes Crypto – formally launched a member-based organization on Monday. The Association of Cryptocurrency Journalists and Researchers will provide education, mentorship and training to ensure practitioners aspire to the highest ethical and journalistic standards; […]

Quartz sets weekly membership addition record

Quartz enjoyed its best week ever for membership last week, adding nearly 1,200 new members. The signups came after Quartz announced it was being acquired in a management buyout by its CEO and co-founder Zach Seward. Quartz now has more than 25,000 paying members globally. In a letter to readers last week, Seward explained how […]

Digiday names Davies its managing editor of Future of Work

Jessica Davies has been named managing editor of Digiday’s Future of Work. She previously was managing editor of Europe for Digiday. She formerly covered media, programmatic and data privacy. Davies will now manage the Future of Work Briefing, develop an expansion plan for the Future of Work vertical and contribute originally reported pieces as well […]

Reuters plans to roll out a hybrid events model in 2021

Kayleigh Barber of Digiday writes about how Reuters plans to roll out a hybrid events model next year. Barber writes, “In 2021, Reuters plans to roll out a hybrid events model, which will delve further into region-based networking without losing the benefits of virtual that the Reuters team has discovered over the past eight months. “A […]

“The Price We Pay” wins SABEW book award

The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing announced Monday that “The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care — And How to Fix It” is the winner for its inaugural Best in Business Book Award. The book was written by Dr. Marty Makary. “The Price We Pay is fresh, enlightening, accessible, and impactful […]

SABEW names its first 10 Xana Fellows

The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing has named its first 10 Xana Fellows for its virtual conference being held this week. They are: Annalee Armstrong, associate editor, S&P Global Market Intelligence Laura Garcia, health care reporter, San Antonio Express-News Kelli Grant, senior editor, CNBC Christine Haughney, senior editor, Biz Tech Investigations, NBC News […]

State hires Thomas as retail reporter

The State newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, has hired Laurryn Thomas to cover retail. Thomas has been interning for the paper for the past eight weeks. She previously was a Dow Jones News Fund intern covering business for The Greenville News in South Carolina. And she interned at the South Carolina Press Association. Thomas is a graduate […]