Semafor has hired Thornton McEnery to cover business and finance.
McEnery will start Jan. 22. He most recently was at The Messenger covering hedge funds and money managers.
He has been at The Daily Upside, which covers business and investing, as its executive editor. He was a MarketWatch.com markets reporter before leaving there in March 2022.
He previously was a business reporter at The New York Post covering Wall Street.
Before that post, McEnery was executive editor and senior editor at Dealbreaker. He also worked at Crain’s New York covering economics news. And he also worked at SNL Financial, now part of S&P Global Markets, covering banks and thrifts.
McEnery holds a master’s degree from New York University and a bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College.