Merrilees joins Post-Dispatch business desk full-time
After a stellar summer on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch business desk, Annika Merrilees is joining the team full time. Prior to joining the Post-Dispatch, Merrilees was an innovation fellow at ABC News, a government reporter at Missouri Business Alert, a report at the Columbia Missourian and an intern at the East Bay Express. She attended both […]
Adam Rhodes leaves reporting job at Law360 to go to graduate school
Adam Rhodes, a reporter at Law360 in New York, is leaving to go to grad school at the Medill School of Journalism in Chicago. He has worked at Law360 for a little over four years, writing daily stories covering anti-trust and competition, construction, sports, health care, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and real estate business and legal […]
Jake Kanter joins Deadline as international TV editor
Jake Kanter has joined Deadline, a publication focusing on Hollywood news, as international TV editor. Previously UK executive editor at Business Insider, where he oversaw a 60-strong London bureau, Kanter was responsible for breaking major stories. He will work closely with Peter White, ahead of his relocation to Los Angeles, as well as international editor […]
Kaplan moves to Los Angeles to join business/tech team at NBC as producer
Ezra Kaplan is moving to Los Angeles to join the business/tech/media team at NBC as a producer. Kaplan has worked as a field producer at NBC News in Boston since June, 2017. Prior to joining NBC, he worked for the Associated Press as a state politics reporter in the Atlanta area, covering spot and enterprise […]
Twenty journalism jobs lost with closing of Washington Post’s Express
More journalism jobs are being lost with the decline in print advertising and the switch to digital platforms, this time with the closing of the Washington Post’s free daily commuter paper, Express. Twenty reporters got the bad news yesterday. The final edition of the Express will be published Thursday. Express,a quick-read newspaper in a smaller […]
Newspaper execs lobby Capitol Hill for better business deals with tech companies
One of the biggest issues facing journalism was brought to the doorsteps of Capitol Hill yesterday as part of the far-reaching campaign to bolster the struggling media industry. Executives from seven newspaper companies urged Congress to pass the “Journalism Competition and Preservation Act,” a bill that fights the dominance of tech companies like Google and […]
Poferl named associate masthead editor and audience director at NYT
Hannah Poferl has been named associate masthead editor and the next audience director at the New York Times. Poferl, one of the paper’s top strategists and analytics experts, helped build the audience team as a deputy to Jodi Rudoren, who recently left The Times to assume a new post as editor of The Forward. In […]
UNC looks to reshape its business journalism program
Right on the heels of big news regarding a major endowment gift to its journalism school, the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina is reporting that the business journalism program faces an uncertain future after losing its leader. The program began in the early 2000s under the direction and leadership of Chris Roush, […]
Wall Street Journal seeks a senior platform editor
The Wall Street Journal seeks an editor who will be responsible for planning and leading programming decisions on the Journal’s native platforms—including mobile and desktop, email alerts and push notifications—to inform, engage and delight readers. Senior platform editors employ superb news judgment and knowledge of audience data in programming decisions. They demonstrate sharp writing and […]
Business Insider Intelligence to offer new area of coverage: banking
Business Insider Intelligence is launching a new area of coverage: banking. With this new feature, the publication promises to give business leaders an edge with access to news, expert analysis and insight from a community of the most important decision-makers shaping future financial services. “The retail and business banking industry is undergoing a rapid and disruptive […]
