Media Moves

Russon joins NBC News as weekend and late news editor

Mary-Ann Russon

NBC News has appointed Mary-Ann Russon as weekend and late news editor, based in London. Russon will direct coverage of NBCNews.com during overnight U.S. time on weekends, and edit and report for the World desk on weekdays, focused on foreign news.

Recently, she was a freelance broadcast journalist at BBC News and contributed to The  Economist Impact Studios.

Russon was a senior technology and science reporter at the International Business Times U.K. and was deputy editor, Mobile Europe at SJP Business Media. She was nominated for the Technology Journalism Award at the British Journalism Awards 2021.

Russon has a B.A. in multimedia journalism from Bournemouth University.

Be sure to congratulate Russon on Twitter.

Mariam Ahmed

Recent Posts

CNBC taps Sullivan as “Power Lunch” co-anchor

CNBC senior vice president Dan Colarusso sent out the following on Monday: Before this year comes to…

55 mins ago

Business Insider hires Brooks as standards editor

Business Insider editor in chief Jamie Heller sent out the following on Monday: I'm excited to share…

1 hour ago

Is this the end of CoinDesk as we know it?

Former CoinDesk editorial staffer Michael McSweeney writes about the recent happenings at the cryptocurrency news site, where…

16 hours ago

LinkedIn finance editor Singh departs

Manas Pratap Singh, finance editor for LinkedIn News Europe, has left for a new opportunity…

2 days ago

Washington Post announces start of third newsroom

Washington Post executive editor Matt Murray sent out the following on Friday: Dear All, Over the last…

3 days ago

FT hires Moens to cover competition and tech in Brussels

The Financial Times has hired Barbara Moens to cover competition and tech in Brussels. She will start…

3 days ago