AP hires gambling and tourism reporter
Reporter Kimberly Pierceall has been hired to cover gambling and tourism for The Associated Press in Nevada. An AP story states, “Pierceall, 32, joins the AP from the Orange County Register, where she has worked as a reporter since 2012 covering the city of Irvine and its ongoing efforts to develop what has been envisioned […]
AP seeks tech reporter in California
AP’s Business News department is looking for an energetic and aggressive reporter who is fascinated by the gadgets and apps being launched out of Silicon Valley and wants to explain how new devices, innovative services and influential companies are changing our lives at work and at home. We need someone who can consistently break news […]
Maybe computers writing AP’s earnings stories isn’t a bad thing
Joe Pinsker of The Atlantic writes that the announcement by the Associated Press that it will have computers write many earnings stories could actually be a good thing. Pinsker writes, “While, yes, it’s true that algorithms can cram stories about vastly different subjects into the same uncanny monotone — they can cover Little League like […]
AP to produce earnings stories using automative technology
The Associated Press announced in an advisory to customers Monday that the majority of U.S. corporate earnings stories for its business news report will eventually be produced using automation technology. Lou Ferrara, a vice president and managing editor of AP, wrote: For many years, we have been spending a lot of time crunching numbers and […]
AP to change daily markets story
The Associated Press sent out the following advisory to its clients on Friday: Starting next month, The Associated Press will take a fresh approach to its coverage of global financial markets. Instead of two separate stories each day — one about U.S. markets and the other about international markets — AP will produce a single […]
AP seeks gambling industry reporter
The Associated Press is seeking a full-time gambling industry reporter in Las Vegas, with a focus on strong beat reporting, source development and accountability journalism. The reporter must be able to work across departments and formats, especially video. He/she works with the news editor to set beat agenda and develop aggressive spot and hard-edged enterprise […]
Gibbs named new AP biz editor
Lisa Gibbs, a former executive business editor at the Miami Herald and a senior writer at Money, has been appointed AP’s business editor. Gibbs will oversee more than 65 business reporters and editors worldwide. She will be based in New York and start the job in late August. She replaces Kevin Shinkle, who left to oversee […]
What’s behind wire service departure from Treasury
Denny Gulino, a senior correspondent at Market News International, writes about the decision by the four major wire services — Associated Press, Bloomberg News, Dow Jones Newswires and Reuters — to depart from staffing the Treasury Department. Gulino, who has covered the Treasury since the 1980s, writes, “At this writing, four adjacent cubicles in the […]
AP hires biz reporter Horwitz for investigative team
The Associated Press has hired business journalist Jeff Horwitz to join its expanding investigative team based out of Washington. Horwitz is currently on a Knight-Bagehot fellowship at Columbia University. As a reporter for American Banker between 2009 and 2013, he wrote about banks’ legal woes and the fallout from the housing crisis. He documented how […]
AP hires editor for biz news desk in DC
AP deputy business editor Brad Foss sent out the following staff hire announcement on Monday: It’s a pleasure to announce that Tomoko Hosaka, who previously worked for the AP in Japan, will join Business News as the desk supervisor in the Washington bureau, working with Fred Monyak and the economics team. She starts on May […]
