The Beacon hires Calacal to cover local economy
Celisa Calacal has been hired as a reporter at The Beacon covering economics and civic engagement in Kansas City and across Kansas and Missouri. She is particularly interested in issues related to housing, labor/workers’ rights, the economic impacts of COVID-19, and government accountability. The Beacon is a nonprofit, online news organization focusing on in-depth journalism. […]
Reuters is launching “Reuters Professional” aimed at decision makers
Reuters is launching “Reuters Professional,” a new business line that will include news, analysis and events for decision makers, reports Sara Fischer of Axios. Fischer writes, “Much of Reuters’ revenue is focused on serving corporate clients through licensing news and data services. With this effort, Reuters will push to serve individual professionals more directly, which […]
Media startup Contrarian Acquires Lou Carlozo’s “Bankadelic” podcast
“Bankadelic,” the financial services podcast hosted by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Qwoted editor-in-chief Lou Carlozo, has been acquired by Contrarian New Media, according to a statement Monday. The podcast joins two new financial technology shows, “Dave and Dharm Demystify” from London and “The Fintagonist” in Austin, Texas. The shows are hosted by leading financial services […]
Santana joins Business Insider as associate retail editor
Danni Santana has joined Business Insider as the publication’s associate retail editor. Santana was formerly a reporter at Front Office Sports and a travel reporter at Skift. He also spent six months as a crisis response coordinator at Google. Santana graduated from the York College of the City of New York with a B.A. in […]
San Fran Chronicle biz editor Owen Thomas talks covering COVID-19
Tell us a little bit about the state of The Chronicle’s newsroom and when you decided to go fully remote? We were deemed by the local health authorities as an essential service, but we talked about whether we’d need to be digital-only. Ultimately the health orders considered us an essential service and we saw the […]
Fox Business anchor Susan Li discusses covering COVID-19
We sat down (virtually) with Fox Business anchor Susan Li to discuss her experience covering COVID-19. Question: Let’s start from the beginning – when did you start covering COVID, and at what point did you realize that this was going to be THE story for the foreseeable future? Answer: We started looking at Hong Kong […]
CNN’s Jason Farkas talks covering COVID-19
We sat down (virtually) with CNN Business General Manager and VP Jason Farkas to discuss the organization’s coverage of COVID-19. When did you start covering COVID and at what point did you realize that this was going to be THE story for the foreseeable future? I think the stock market began registering the COVID threat […]
Fortune magazine upgrades office
Fortune magazine not only has a new owner–Thai business mogul Chatchaval Jiaravanon–but it also has some fancy new digs. The magazine’s new offices at 40 Fulton Street are a bit of an upgrade from the aesthetic at 225 Liberty Street, where Fortune once woked out of when it was part of Time Inc. For the […]
McClatchy files for bankruptcy
Newspaper publishing giant McClatchy filed for bankruptcy this morning, marking yet another milestone in the declining state of local journalism. According to The Washington Post, the filing will “allow the Sacramento-based company to keep its 30 newspapers afloat while it reorganizes more than $700 million in debt, 60 percent of which would be eliminated.” Pending […]
2020: What’s ahead for journalism?
Our editor-in-chief and dean of Communications at Quinnipiac University Chris Roush shares his thoughts on how journalism has changed for reporters, news consumers and students, and discusses how he expects the industry to evolve over the next decade. Tell us a bit about how you got your start in journalism and what piqued your interest […]
