Rothschild swaps Axios for Semafor
Global startup Semafor has hired Neal Rothschild to lead audience. Recently, he served as director for audience and growth at Axios, as well as a social media manager and associate director for growth. Rothschild wrote freelance sports stories for USA Today, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Detroit News and the New York Times. He graduated from […]
Axios hires Dickey for San Francisco newsletter
Axios has hired technology reporter Megan Rose Dickey for its new San Francisco newsletter. Fr the past nine month, Dickey has been chief content officer at Backstage Capital, which invests in what it calls “underestimated” founders. She had been covering artificial intelligence and diversity, equity and inclusion in the technology industry for Protocol before that. Dickey was […]
Gonzalez joining health care team at Axios
Oriana Gonzalez, a breaking news reporter at Axios, is becoming a health care reporter at the news organization. She has been at Axios since October 2020 covering a variety of topics. Gonzalez is a 2020 graduate of the University of California-Irvine, where she was editor in chief of the student newspaper. While in college, she […]
Kraushaar to join Axios as senior politics reporter
Axios has tapped Joshua Kraushaar as a senior politics reporter, writing a Sunday column in the Sneak Peek newsletter. Currently, he is Against the Grain columnist at the National Journal. He also serves as managing editor of political coverage. Against the Grain provides the latest developments from the campaign trail. Previously, he was executive editor of […]
Boston Biz Journal’s Solis leaving for Axios
Business Business Journal digital editor Steph Solis is leaving to cover Boston for Axios. She will start next week. “I’ve loved working with this group of journalists more than I can say,” she wrote on Twitter. “They are smart, tenacious and kind, and I’m better for knowing them. Bittersweet doesn’t begin to cover how I’ve felt the […]
Fortune video producer Merenes leaving for Axios
Fortune magazine video producer Stephen Merenes has been hired by Axios to be a senior cinematographer and editor. He starts his new job on Monday. Merenes has been with Fortune for the past year, producing and editing a weekly digital video series. He previously freelanced for Univision Communications and was a producer and editor for Meredith Corp. […]
Axios taps Boehm as Phoenix reporter
Jessica Boehm will join Axios as a Phoenix reporter for their Phoenix newsletter. Previously, she covered housing affordability, accessibility and homelessness for The Arizona Republic. Boehm comes from The Arizona Republic, where she spent seven years. She served as a government accountability reporter and covered the community of Gilbert and City Hall politics and issues. […]
Brown returns to Axios to cover the Fed and economy
Courtenay Brown is returning to Axios to cover the Federal Reserve and the economy. She had been a markets reporter before leaving in January. She has been with Axios since August 2018. She covers trends in financial markets and the economy. Brown wrote the “Axios Closer” newsletter. It features new insight on the business stories capturing everyone’s attention, plus […]
Axios hires Bloomberg’s Kim to write crypto newsletter
Axios has hired Bloomberg News reporter Crystal Kim to write its cryptocurrency newsletter. Kim has been covering crypto and was previously the equity capital markets reporter at Bloomberg News, covering IPOs and secondary offerings. Kim started out at Barron’s August 2010 as a research assistant and was most recently the funds columnist with a focus on ETFs. She […]
Wired hires Farokhmanesh to cover gaming
Megan Farokhmanesh, a gaming reporter at Axios who co-writes its gaming newsletter, has been hired by Wired as a senior reporter. She will start May 23. She has been at Axios for a year. Farokhmanesh was previously at The Verge where she was a reporter covering internet culture and the video game industry. She was also a reporter, senior reporter […]
