CNN hires Yahoo Finance’s Smith
Brad Smith has been hired by CNN as an anchor for CNN Headlines, the network’s domestic Fast channel. He will start his new job later this summer. Smith was previously an anchor at Yahoo Finance where he covered equity markets and interviewed chief executives of household-known businesses, cabinet officials, members of congress and economic policymakers […]
CNN hires Riva as senior money editor
CNN has hired Alberto Riva as senior money editor. He will be in charge of money coverage, including travel, credit cards and points and miles, at CNN Underscored. Riva most recently was an editor at Upgraded Points. He also worked at Forbes Marketplace International as editor in chief and The Points Guy as managing editor. Before that, […]
CNN hires Freedman as senior reporter
Andrew Freedman has been hired by CNN Climate & Weather as a senior reporter. Previously, Freedman served as a senior climate reporter with Axios and was an author of the daily “Axios Generate” newsletter. He covered climate science and policy, extreme weather, and the energy transition. Freedman broke multiple key stories on the Trump Administration’s plans […]
CNN hires Kirell as senior media editor
CNN has hired Andrew Kirell as a senior media editor. Kirell has been a contributing editor for Vanity Fair for the past nine months but he previously was media editor at The Daily Beast, where he worked for nearly nine years. He was also editor in chief of Mediaite. Kirell also worked as an associate editor at […]
Wills departing WSJ to return to CNN
Amanda Wills is leaving The Wall Street Journal and joining CNN Worldwide in a newly created role within the global news organization, serving as group senior vice president, chief content officer. Her first day will be April 14. She has been chief content officer of video, a masthead role overseeing everything in video form, from breaking […]
CNN hires Liu to cover China business
CNN has hired John Liu to be its China business reporter in Hong Kong. He has been at The New York Times since 2021. Previously, he worked as a freelance journalist covering Taiwan and Myanmar, including Myanmar’s 2021 military coup, for various international media outlets. Liu started as a reporter for the now defunct Myanmar Times based […]
Tax Notes hires CNN’s Lobosco
Tax Notes has hired Katie Lobosco to cover tax policy. She has been writing for CNN Politics, focusing on how economic policy decisions made in Washington affect people across the country. Previously, she covered consumer finance for CNN Business, including the impacts of the 2017 federal tax reform, the massive Equifax data breach, and how Americans are […]
Bloomberg hires CNN’s Sullivan as White House correspondent
Bloomberg White House and politics editor Justin Sink, Washington bureau chief Peggy Collins and managing editor for economy and government Mario Parker sent out the following: All — We are excited to announce that Kate Sullivan will be joining Bloomberg News as a White House correspondent. Kate comes to us from CNN, where she was […]
Rucker departs Washington Post for CNN
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Philip Rucker has joined CNN as senior vice president of editorial strategy and news, the network announced Monday. He will be based out of CNN’s Washington, DC bureau and starts on Feb. 10. In this role, Rucker will bring his decades of experience as a newsroom leader to help mobilize CNN’s […]
CNN hires Pershing, formerly with WSJ
CNN has hired Ben Pershing as a supervising editor in Washington. He previously was politics editor at The Wall Street Journal. Before the Journal, Pershing previously served as editor of National Journal. Pershing served for six years as a staff writer at The Washington Post. He covered Congress for the national staff, anchoring a popular blog […]
