Do reporters like pitches by social media?
In an update to the groundbreaking 2015 Talking Biz News article “The pros/cons of pitching biz reporters through social media,” we again asked several reporters their opinion on receiving pitches via social media. Back in ‘15, X was Twitter and TikTok didn’t exist. Instagram had just launched Boomerang, and Facebook had enabled GIFs. Snapchat was […]
Bloomberg’s Epstein to cover Harris campaign
Bloomberg News real estate reporter Jennifer Epstein is moving to cover the presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris. She has been covering residential real estate for the past two years. Epstein previously was a correspondent covering the White House. Before joining Bloomberg Politics in February 2015, she spent more than four years at Politico, including time […]
WSJ’s Gershkovich is being released
Russia is releasing Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan as part of a major prisoner swap with the U.S., report Jennifer Jacobs and Cagan Koc of Bloomberg News. Jacobs and Koc report, “Further details of the exchange weren’t immediately available. The US has been in extensive talks to achieve the release of […]
The life and career of WSJ’s Gershkovich
Eliot Brown of The Wall Street Journal writes about the life of Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, sentenced last week to 16 years in a Russian prison. Brown writes, “A soccer star in high school at Princeton’s public schools, Evan studied philosophy at Bowdoin College in Maine and then moved to New York after a year in Thailand. […]
TV biz news anchor Dobbs dies at 78
Lou Dobbs, the longtime business news anchor at CNN and then Fox Business, died on Thursday. He was 78. Oliver Darcy of CNN reports, “Dobbs had a lengthy career in broadcast journalism, spending more than two decades at CNN, which he joined at its inception in 1980 and anchoring the program “Moneyline.” Dobbs left CNN […]
Bankadelic special episode: Stars and Swipes forever
The latest episode of Lou Carlozo’s Bankadelic brings together five special guests to talk about the state of banking and fintech at the halfway point of 2024. Join them as they wax patriotic on banking’s breakthroughs, paths to industry improvement and causes for celebration worth raising the sparklers on high. Our banking patriots: Zach Duke, […]
Qwoted 100 PR Superstar: Viktorija Veltmane of the Dyninno Group
It’s hard to imagine a Qwoted 100 PR Superstar with more international cred than Viktorija Veltmane. Based in Riga, Latvia, she’s Head of Press Relations at the Dyninno Group, a company that itself has globetrotting roots: founded in San Francisco by an immigrant from Moldova and today based in Valetta, Malta. Then there’s Veltmane’s freelance […]
Former WSJ editor Murray to run Washington Post
The Washington Post announced Sunday that Sally Buzbee has stepped down as executive editor and is being replaced by former Wall Street Journal editor Matt Murray. Buzbee has been with The Washington Post since 2021, leading the newsroom through the turbulence of the pandemic and expanding its service journalism, including Climate and Well+Being. Under her leadership, The […]
Business Insider EIC Carlson is stepping down
Business Insider’s global editor-in-chief Nicholas Carlson is stepping down as the company begins a search for his replacement, reports Maxwell Tani of Semafor. Tani reports, “In a meeting with the publication’s leadership Tuesday morning, Nicholas Carlson announced that he would leave his position as the top editor of the business-focused digital news outlet, and become an editor-at-large […]
Swisher to receive Lifetime Achievement Webby
Longtime technology journalist Kara Swisher has been awarded the 2024 Webby Lifetime Achievement Award. The Webby Awards are given by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. The Webby Awards states: As one of the most recognized voices in technology, media and business, Kara Swisher holds an incomparable career as a veteran tech journalist covering a […]
