BuzzFeed hires tech/transportation reporter from MarketWatch.com
BuzzFeed San Francisco bureau chief Mat Honan sent out the following staff hire announcement: Hey all I’m thrilled to announce that we’ve hired Priya Anand as our new tech and transportation reporter. Priya comes to us from MarketWatch where she was a consumer fraud & cybersecurity reporter. While there she had scoops on the rising number […]
BuzzFeed seeks deputy tech editor in San Francisco
BuzzFeed News is seeking a smart, capable and dogged Deputy Technology Editor in our San Francisco bureau to take our technology coverage to the next level. This is a highly ambitious bureau, with an amazing team of reporters and editors. The successful candidate will share that drive and ambition, and will report to the bureau’s […]
BuzzFeed seeks technology/transportation reporter
BuzzFeed News is looking for smart, tenacious, and enthusiastic reporter in its San Francisco bureau to cover the fast-changing transportation sector. You should be able respond quickly to the news of the day, develop a beat, break news, and advance stories. This is a highly ambitious bureau, with an amazing team of reporters and editors. […]
Re/code hires BuzzFeed’s Bhuiyan to cover transportation
Tech news site Re/code has hired BuzzFeed transportation reporter Johana Bhuiyan to cover the same beat. She starts March 7. Re/codes Kara Swisher writes, “One needs only to read her timely and tough pieces on Uber, the kingpin of the car-sharing market, to see how she approaches the topic. But Uber will not be the only […]
BuzzFeed business names deputy editor, senior reporter
BuzzFeed business editor Tom Gara sent out the following announcement on Wednesday afternoon: Hi all – a couple of updates from the land of dollar signs here at BuzzFeed Business: Venessa Wong is now our deputy editor. As you all know, Venessa has been absolutely killing it covering the food business, and reporting will still be her number one […]
BuzzFeed biz reporters win award for labor reporting
BuzzFeed business editor Tom Gara sent out the following announcement on Monday: Hello all, Please give a warm round of props to Sapna Maheshwari and Cora Lewis, who have won the Newswomen’s Club of New York 2015 Front Page Award for their reporting on labor practices in the retail industry. Their feature story, Making Victoria’s Secret […]
BuzzFeed seeks UK business editor
BuzzFeed is looking for an experienced business journalist to shape BuzzFeed UK’s daily coverage and help build our team. This editor must have experience of producing hard-hitting, consumer-facing news stories, analysis and feature pieces that can stand out from mainstream business news coverage. They should have a proven track record of bringing in the scoops […]
BuzzFeed hires Gara as deputy business editor
Tom Gara of The Wall Street Journal has been hired as the new deputy business editor at Buzzfeed. Gara has been editor of the Journal’s Corporate Intelligence blog for the past two years. He has also worked at The Financial Times. “Peter and his team are doing exactly what every journalist wants to be a […]
Beefing up BuzzFeed’s business news
Peter Kafka of Re/code spoke with BuzzFeed business editor Peter Lauria about plans to expand the website’s business news coverage. Here is an excerpt: How has that thesis played out? What worked? What didn’t work? In the beginning we weren’t sure what the appetite would be among traditional BuzzFeed readers for business news, and among […]
BuzzFeed business appeals to the millenials
BuzzFeed business editor Peter Lauria was on Bloomberg Television earlier Wednesday to discuss with Pimm Fox its strategy in terms of what stories it covers and who is attracted to its content.
