Media Movers: Financial journalist Gail MarksJarvis
Gail MarksJarvis is one of the nation’s most important freelance journalists. Don’t believe me? Check out her work: Retirees: Expect to Get Hit With Surging Health Costs. ‘ Motherhood Penalty’ Ranges as High as $600,000. Here Are Some Tips to Catch Up. A Young Worker’s Guide to Saving for Emergencies and Investing for Retirement. Still […]
Media Movers: N.C. sports reporting star Joe Giglio
If you pay attention to college sports, chances are you’ve come across Joe Giglio. He started writing and talking about the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) while at N.C. State University in the mid-to-late 1990s. That college work helped him land a plum job at the (Raleigh) News & Observer, where he spent nearly a quarter-century […]
Media Movers: Jeanne Pinder of ClearHealthCosts.com
Everyone should be able to easily compare the costs of common medical procedures. No reporter would dispute this, but it took Jeanne Pinder to do something about it. After a successful career at The New York Times, she took a buyout — a choice many journalists may have to make at least once in their careers. […]
Media Movers: Podcaster, writer and editor Mark Caro
Mark Caro has truly done it all: He was a star writer at the Chicago Tribune, works to train the next generation, runs the successful podcast Caropop and writes fascinating books. Oh, he also emcees events and shares the stage with A-list stars. This is an amazing resume that you don’t see every day, […]
Media Movers: CNN’s Gustavo Valdes
For years, I thought that CNN en Español was simply CNN news translated. Then I got to know Gustavo Valdes, a correspondent for CNN en Español. The smaller-but-mighty sister network has carved out an identity as it represents and respects the varied cultures of its millions of viewers. It has bureaus in Buenos Aires, Miami […]
Media Movers: Newsday’s James T. Madore
Some journalists hop from publication to publication trying to find their fit. Then there’s James T. Madore, who got a position at Newsday back in 1996 and knew that he’d found his. He has used his longevity to cover numerous beats — he’s even served as a bureau chief — and champion new platforms, activities […]
Media Movers: Medill’s Desiree Hanford
It’s time for a new guard at SABEW, the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, the nation’s largest group of business writers. This year’s president is Desiree Hanford, assistant professor and director of academic integrity and appeals at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. For those not in the know, […]
Media Movers: Cox Automotive’s Sean Tucker
Sean Tucker is a beat journalist with a cool job perk: test driving new cars. As a senior news editor at Cox Automotive, owner of Kelley Blue Book and Autotrader, Tucker gets under the hood: that is, he accesses troves of Cox data, which he translates into digestible nuggets. And for consumers in a […]
Media Movers: The Messenger’s Dawn Kopecki
It is officially time to welcome a new generation of journalists to the leadership table. But this crowd is doing things differently. Generations of traditional newshounds followed a prescribed path: Toil away at a newswire or start at the small local daily, move to a bigger city and, if you were lucky, end up a […]
Media Movers: The Intersect’s Joe Bel Bruno
Joe Bel Bruno is putting his stamp on Hollywood. After an amazing career that included stints as stock market team editor at The Wall Street Journal, news director for the Hollywood Reporter and working on a startup, he’s blending his experience with The Intersect. His publication aims to document and examine how Hollywood and Wall […]
