Kansas City Star seeks an engagement producer – part-time

The Kansas City Star, winner of nine Pulitzer Prizes, is seeking a creative, high-energy journalist to join our team as a part-time engagement producer. This person will be responsible for helping deepen the news organization’s relationship with local communities using digital and in-person audience engagement tactics. This part-time position is based in the Kansas City […]

Sound Publishing Inc. seeks a reporter, Juneau, AK

The Juneau Empire, Alaska’s award-winning capital daily, is looking for an experienced, hard-hitting journalist to report on general and state news from the Alaska State Capitol in downtown Juneau. As Alaska’s capital, Juneau sits at the forefront of state government, and covering the Legislature is one of our primary watchdog missions as a newspaper. Our ideal candidate will possess […]

Talking Biz News Today – Dec. 1, 2023

Some of Friday’s top business news stories: The Associated Press Thousands of fake Facebook accounts shut down by Meta were primed to polarize voters ahead of 2024, by David Klepper Some OPEC+ members will cut the oil that they send to the world to try to boost prices, by Courtney Bonnell and Ellen Knickmeyer CNN […]

Karadeglija swaps National Post for the Canadian Press

The Canadian Press has hired Anja Karadeglija in its Ottawa bureau. Since February 2021, Karadeglija has been at the National Post as its parliamentary bureau. In her new role, she will focus more on general political reporting, including late-breaking news and copy editing. Karadeglija also worked as a journalism instructor at Carleton University, from where […]

Institute for Nonprofit News names Rundlet CEO

The following was obtained by Talking Biz News: Los Angeles, CA – Philanthropy leader and multimedia journalist Karen Rundlet will become chief executive officer of the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN), the network driving the movement to reinvent journalism as a nonprofit, nonpartisan public service. Rundlet will join INN on Jan. 8, the INN Board […]

Connecticut’s Winsted Citizen saved, bought by American Business Media

The following excerpt was sent out from ctnewsjunkie.com: American Business Media LLC, a national magazine publisher based in Simsbury, purchased the Winsted Citizen last week, saving the cash-strapped monthly newspaper from a previously announced closure. The acquisition, announced by the publisher’s CEO Vincent Valvo in a press release, came less than a week after news […]

BBC Studios launches ‘BBC Podcasts Premium’

The following excerpt was sent out from podnews.net: BBC Studios – creator, producer and distributor of distinct British content globally – today launched BBC Podcasts Premium, its exclusive Apple subscription podcast service for listeners in 166 new countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean. BBC Podcasts Premium offers early access […]

Global fashion director at large Karefa-Johnson departs Vogue

Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, global fashion director at large at Vogue, has announced her departure. She said: “That resignation was something that was right for me at the time, still is right for me. The truth of the matter is we grow and sometimes our containers don’t grow with us. And so I am excited to build […]

Atlanta’s NBC affiliate hires Fowler as director of content

Carol Fowler will join Atlanta NBC station WXIA-TV Ch. 11 as director of content. She will begin on Dec. 11. In her new role, Fowler will oversee the TV station’s daily operations and help develop its audience growth strategy. She commented: “It’s an honor to join 11Alive in this leadership role. “Our goal is to […]