Nashville Business Journal seeks new editor-in-chief

The Nashville Business Journal is looking for an editor-in-chief to lead a talented newsroom in one of the country’s most dynamic, innovative and fast-paced business communities. As the highest-ranking newsroom leader, the editor-in-chief is responsible for driving newsroom culture, product strategy and quality journalism across all platforms. This person will lead the news team to […]

Cate Barron named president of PA Media Group

Cate Barron has been named president of PA Media Group, responsible for newsroom, sales and marketing operations at PennLive.com and the Patriot-News newspaper in Pennsylvania. (https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/08/veteran-pennlivepatriot-news-journalist-named-president-of-pa-media-group.html) She succeeds D. Lee Carlson who retired after serving as president for four years. The announcement was made by Tim Kennedy, regional president with Advance Local, which oversees the […]

From a one-man operation to 1.6 million followers, a new medium emerges

Han Zhang of the New Yorker magazine has written an article on a resoundingly successful emerging business model for the struggling world journalism. (https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-post-truth-publication-where-chinese-students-in-america-get-their-news) College Daily, which now has more than 30 staffers in Beijing and 15 in New York, launched at the beginning of 2014 as a one-man operation in an apartment in Beijing.  […]

Wall Street Journal seeks journalist to cover southern Europe

The Wall Street Journal is looking for an enterprising, energetic and versatile journalist to cover Europe’s southern countries, including Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal.(https://dowjones.jobs/rome-ita/southern-europe-reporter/48CA55A798CF4E90A1843CA4F9E4953F/job/) Southern Europe is one of the most culturally rich but economically troubled parts of the developed world. Its struggles to cope with globalization and the scars of financial crises have made […]

Katie Shepherd joins Morning Mix at Washington Post as staff writer

Katie Shepherd is joining Morning Mix, which covers business, general news and entertainment, at the Washington Post as a staff writer.(https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2019/08/19/katie-shepherd-join-morning-mix-staff-writer/) Shepherd spent the last two years covering Oregon’s criminal justice system and far-right extremism in the Pacific Northwest for Willamette Week, an alt-weekly in Portland, Ore. Her reporting revealed an undisclosed inmate death in […]

Kaitlyn Tiffany joins The Atlantic’s tech team

Kaitlyn Tiffany is joining The Atlantic’s tech team as a staff writer covering internet culture.  (https://www.theatlantic.com/press-releases/archive/2019/08/atlantic-hires-kaitlyn-tiffany/596329/) In a note to staff announcing Tiffany’s hire, editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg and executive editor Adrienne LaFrance wrote: “Kaitlyn is funny, sharp, and possesses both a wealth of weird internet knowledge and a classic magazine sensibility. We can’t wait to have […]

Fox News, Trump, accuse media of trying to cause a recession

Fox News guests and hosts have accused the media of deliberately trying to cause a recession to undermine President Donald Trump’s re-election prospects. (https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-guests-hosts-accuse-media-cause-recession-undermine-trump-2019-8) Stocks plummeted last Wednesday after the U.S. bond market fired off a warning sign with an inverted yield curve, which reflects long-term interest rates on bonds dropping below short-term interest rates. An […]

Malaysia’s oldest newspaper group shuts down, admitting it is penniless

Malaysia’s oldest newspaper group will close Aug. 21 after a sustained period of financial uncertainty. https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/utusan-malaysias-oldest-newspaper-and-kosmo-to-cease-publication All publications under the Utusan Group – Utusan Malaysia, Mingguan Malaysia, Kosmo!, and Kosmo! Ahad – will cease all print and online publications. Utusan Malaysia’s National Union of Journalists (NUJ) chief Taufek Razak said that executive chairman Datuk Abd. […]

Demise of on-line magazine Pacific Standard rocks journalism world

The sudden death of Pacific Standard, a decade-old Santa Barbara-based online magazine covering environmental science, social justice, economics policy, official corruption and other substantive issues, has hit the journalism community especially hard. The small but dedicated staff of 16 journalists were sent packing this month.  Pacific Standard debuted in 2008 as the Miller-McCune Report, named after […]

Financial Times and The Business of Fashion forge ahead with partnership

The Financial Times and The Business of Fashion, the media start-up that has become an established read for the fashion and luxury sector, are forging ahead with a strategic partnership. Imran Amed, founder, CEO & editor-in-chief of The Business of Fashion, personally addressed his readers on the partnership, saying it is more than a simple investment. “It will […]