CNBC to launch “Last Call,” new show hosted by Brian Sullivan
CNBC president KC Sullivan sent out the following on Thursday: We are hitting the ground running in 2023, investing in our core content of business news and personal finance and implementing strategies that will best position CNBC for the future. As the global leader in business news for more than 30 years, there is no question that […]
American Journalism Project to grant $3.25 million to three nonprofit local news outlets
The following excerpt was sent out: The American Journalism Project announced its first three new grants of 2023 to nonprofit news organizations that aim to reach new audiences and cover critical issues concerning communities in North Carolina, Fort Worth, Texas and Nebraska. This brings the American Journalism Project’s portfolio of grantees to 36 organizations and […]
Sullivan joins The Guardian US as weekly columnist
Margaret Sullivan, one of America’s leading journalists and media commentators, has joined The Guardian US as a weekly columnist to write on media, politics, culture, and moral/political debates of the moment. An award-winning journalist, Sullivan’s recently a media columnist with The Washington Post, where she wrote about the news media, press rights and digital transformation […]
Media Movers Q&A: Jackie DeAngelis of Fox Business
Last week, we introduced you to Taylor Riggs, co-host of the new ‘Big Money Show’ on Fox Business. Today, we’re spotlighting the equally talented Jackie DeAngelis. Jackie didn’t set out to be a journalist; she started her career on Wall Street and earned a law degree. Still she credits these experiences as a fitting prelude […]
Bloomberg senior exec editor Collins becomes chief product/tech officer
Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait sent the following memo to Editorial & Research staff today. To All in Editorial & Research, In modern journalism producing great content is only half the job; you have to use every conceivable piece of technology to make sure it reaches your audience. At Bloomberg, that principally means the Terminal user […]
Vox Media to axe 7 percent of its workforce
Vox Media will lay off 7 percent of its workforce, as per CEO Jim Bankoff. In a memo to staff, Bankoff said the layoffs will affect approximately 130 people from various departments, including editorial. The affected employees were notified via email, followed by a meeting with an HR officer to discuss severance packages. “We are […]
CNET’s AI controversy, a possible CoinDesk sale: TBN Ticker for Jan. 20
This week dive into the world of AI-assisted writing with Talking Biz News as tech site CNET experiments (amid controversy) with deploying it online. Also check out news on a possible CoinDesk sale, and join TBN editor and publisher Lou Carlozo in an exclusive interview with Bloomberg Industry Group’s editor in chief Cesca Antonelli as […]
PBS Frontline taps six journos for diversity in documentary film initiative
The following excerpt was sent out: FRONTLINE, the award-winning PBS investigative documentary series based at GBH in Boston, today announced the selection of filmmakers for the Investigative Journalist Equity Initiative (IJEI), a new effort aimed at increasing diversity in the documentary filmmaking landscape. The initiative is generously supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Abrams Foundation, […]
CoinDesk hires investment banker to explore options
CoinDesk Inc., a cryptocurrency-focused media company, has retained investment bankers at Lazard Ltd. to help it explore options including a partial or full sale, reports Wall Street Journal reporters Lauren Thomas and Vicky Ge Huang. Thomas and Huang report, “CoinDesk’s parent company, Digital Currency Group Inc., or DCG, has received multiple unsolicited offers north of $200 million […]
TBN Exclusive: Cesca Antonelli talks Bloomberg Industry Group’s march to the top
That giant gulping sound you heard at the end of the year came when reporters everywhere opened their end-of-year emails from the editor. And no wonder: In 2022, Talking Biz News covered copious layoffs and job cuts by the likes of Gannett, CNN, BuzzFeed, Reach plc, and pretty much any paper owned by the vulture […]
