Stockman to join editorial board at New York Times
Farah Stockman will be joining the New York Times opinion department as a writer covering foreign policy and national affairs as a member of the editorial board. For the past four years, Stockman was in the paper’s newsroom writing stories about race and class and middle America. Stockman begins in August. Stockman began her career […]
Thottam named new deputy op-ed editor at NY Times
Jyoti Thottam has been appointed the new deputy op-ed editor at New York Times. In her new role, Thottam will become one of the “Opinion Today” writers and will also oversee the vertical editors for world, culture and business/technology. She will also be responsible for shaping the daily opinion report and the Sunday Review with […]
WSJ edtorial board responds to letter from newsroom
The Wall Street Journal editorial board has responded to a letter signed by 280 journalists at the paper requesting that it make a clearer determination between news and opinion. The editorial states, “In the spirit of collegiality, we won’t respond in kind to the letter signers. Their anxieties aren’t our responsibility in any case. The […]
WSJ staffers ask for clarification between editorial and opinion
Journalists at The Wall Street Journal and other Dow Jones & Co. staffers sent a letter on Tuesday to publisher Alma Latour calling for a clearer differentiation between news and opinion content online, reports Jeffrey Trachtenberg of The Journal. Trachtenberg writes, “The letter, signed by more than 280 reporters, editors and other employees says, ‘Opinion’s lack of […]
Quartz editor Bell argues for more progressive form of business journalism
Quartz editor in chief Katherine Bell has written a column arguing for a more progressive form of business journalism. Bell writes, “If we want a better, more inclusive economy, we need a new, more demanding form of business and economic journalism, one that questions the assumptions our organizations, industries, and economies are built on; investigates not only […]
Ferguson joins Bloomberg Opinion as a columnist
Bloomberg Opinion announced Thursday that Niall Ferguson is joining the commentary site as a columnist. He starts on June 1. Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, and a visiting professor at Tsinghua […]
Tampa Bay Times biz columnist to become editorials editor
Tampa Bay Times business columnist Graham Brink has been named the paper’s editor of editorials. Amy Hollyfield of the Times writes, “Brink, 49, will take over the Times’ opinion journalism on June 1, becoming only the fourth person in 56 years to serve in the role. He has spent the past two years as the […]
Biz journalist Gilman starts Newsweek column “On the Street”
Longtime business journalist Hank Gilman, who is currently editorial director of Newsweek, has started writing a business column for the publication. The column is called “On the Street,” and it runs on Mondays. “Basically, its a business/economics column with my takes on three or four topics a week,” said Gilman in an email. “It’s in […]
Lack of labor reporting hurts the economy and society
Two university professors write in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix that a lack of reporting about labor issues hurts society. Andrew Stevens and Charles Smith write, “There was a time when even local papers and television stations had sufficient resources to invest in robust newsrooms and beat reporting. Today, the Toronto Star’s Sara Mojtehedzadeh is one […]
Bloomberg Opinion seeks a tech columnist
Are you a writer with deep subject authority on the business of tech, who would be able to tell sophisticated readers how they should think about the biggest themes, trends and players in this important area? Then Bloomberg Opinion might be the place for you. We are seeking a senior writer to explain key developments […]
