A heartfelt goodbye from an AP loyalist
As we reported earlier today, Associated Press reporter Harry Weber is leaving the wire service for a job on the Houston Chronicle business news desk. His goodbye email to sources and colleagues should be required reading for anyone thinking about how to depart a news organization: I don’t know which is harder — losing 90 […]
AP reporter headed to Houston to cover energy
Harry Weber, an Associated Press reporter based in Atlanta, is leaving the wire service to cover energy for the Houston Chronicle’s business news desk. Tony Wilbert‘s Skyline Views reports: Weber, who covered big business, airlines and the BP oil spill for the past 10 years out of the AP’s Atlanta bureau, will depart next month […]
AP biz reporter leaving for Bankrate.com
Associated Press business editor Hal Ritter sent out the following staff departure announcement: Chris Kahn has decided to leave AP to take a job as editor of the credit card team at bankrate.com. Chris joined AP as an intern in the Phoenix bureau in 1999. He became a full-time reporter in the Richmond, Va., bureau […]
AP looking for an assistant biz editor
The Associated Press Business News Department seeks an assistant business editor for its headquarters in New York City. This editor will primarily manage editors who produce the AP’s financial markets and banking coverage, as well as its Money & Markets product, which appears in hundreds of newspapers and on their websites. The job requires an […]
Biz media say progress made in talks with Labor Department
Business media outlets say they have made progress in talks with the Labor Department in a dispute over how the federal government agency releases economic data to journalists. An Associated Press story states, “Testifying to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Reuters and Bloomberg News officials revealed little detail about the movement they said […]
Atlanta paper hires new commercial real estate reporter
Greg Bluestein, a reporter for the Associated Press in Atlanta, has been hired to cover business at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, business editor Matt Kempner confirmed to Talking Biz News. He will cover commercial real estate and economic development. Bluestein starts May 30. Bluestein is a legal affairs reporter for the Associated Press in Georgia and […]
AP names Korean tech reporter
Youkyung Lee, a reporter who has covered technology, business and politics in South Korea and for overseas publications, has been named technology writer in Seoul for The Associated Press. Stephen Wright, the AP’s Asia business editor, made the announcement Wednesday. An AP story states, “Lee has been a reporter for the English language news service […]
Biz reporter named to AP Beijing post
Didi Tang, a reporter who has covered business and education in Missouri, has been named a correspondent in Beijing for The Associated Press. An AP story states, “A China-born U.S. citizen, Tang, 36, has been a newspaper reporter for a decade in Missouri, most recently for the Springfield News-Leader, where she covered education issues. She […]
AP assistant biz editor leaving for Bloomberg Industries
Associated Press business editor Hal Ritter made the following staff announcement Tuesday afternoon: After an 18-year run that started as an editorial assistant in AP’s Trenton bureau, Assistant Business Editor Donna Weston is leaving us for a job at Bloomberg Industries. Donna will be an editor in this data division of Bloomberg that publishes research […]
AP tech reporter joining Bloomberg
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Jordan Robertson, a tech reporter based in San Francisco for the Associated Press, is leaving the wire service to join Bloomberg News. In an email to the staff, AP business editor Hal Ritter wrote, “Sorry to report that Jordan Robertson is leaving us to join Bloomberg News as its lead reporter […]
