Meth starts Opinioned, an op-ed firm

Jake Meth has founded Opinioned, an op-ed writing and strategy firm for people with big ideas. He spent five years editing Fortune magazine’s commentary section, and after that worked with executives to write and publish opinion pieces with The Expert Press. Over this time, he realized he could use his skills to help leaders publish […]

Bennet becomes first American to write Economist’s Lexington column

James Bennet, senior editor at The Economist, is the new Lexington columnist. The weekly column, dedicated to U.S. politics, takes its name from Lexington, Massachusetts, the site of the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. Prior to joining The Economist in 2021 as an editor, Bennet was editorial page editor of The New York Times […]

Bloomberg Opinion’s Shipley hired by Washington Post as editorial page editor

David Shipley, the senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion, was named editor of The Washington Post’s editorial page on Thursday. Paul Farhi and Elahe Izadi of The Post write, “Deputy editorial page editors Ruth Marcus and Karen Tumulty have run the department on an interim basis for several months. “A Post spokeswoman said Shipley was unavailable for an […]

Bloomberg Opinion seeks a retail columnist

Bloomberg Opinion is looking for a seasoned journalist with a wide understanding of the consumer world and retail business. We want a columnist to cover the fast-changing consumer economy and shifting consumer experience, as well as the retail business world, primarily in the US. An ideal candidate will be familiar with American retail businesses, large […]

Larsen named global editor of Reuters Breakingviews

Reuters announced Sunday the appointment of Peter Thal Larsen as global editor of Breakingviews, the international commentary arm of Reuters News. Larsen joined Breakingviews in 2009. He led coverage of financial services from London before moving to Hong Kong as Asia Editor in 2012. There he built up the local team and launched the Asian […]

Reidy to become Bloomberg Opinion columnist

Gearoid Reidy is becoming a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. Reidy has been a Bloomberg News senior editor covering Japan equities. He previously led the breaking news team in North Asia and was the Tokyo deputy bureau chief. Reidy was also the project manager for automated journalism from July 2017 to February 2020 in Tokyo for Bloomberg. […]

Why stock market stories aren’t important to most Americans

Quinnipiac University School of Communications dean Chris Roush writes on MarketWatch.com about the overimportance of stock market stories in business media. Roush writes, “Stock market coverage is the classic story that shows the current problem with business journalism. It’s content for only those with the financial means to invest and to spend on business news content. “Slightly […]

FT columnist Dizard departs after 21 years

Financial Times columnist John Dizard has left the news organization after 21 years. He wrote a weekly column for the Financial Times called Street Talk which covers global macro investing, the political economy of currencies, energy, commodities, emerging market debt, the international and domestic credit markets, the automation of securities exchanges, and Iraqi economics and finance. Dizard […]

FT’s Burn-Murdoch to write weekly column

John Burn-Murdoch, a data journalist at the Financial Times, has started writing a weekly data-driven column. Burn-Murdoch has been with the FT for over eight years. Previously, he was a data journalist at Which? in London, where he worked with the  public services, investigations and statistics teams. He also held the same post at The […]

MarketWatch.com seeks a financial columnist

MarketWatch.com is seeking a financial writer/columnist who is able to discern the signal from the noise, and weigh in on developments in the market, producing scoops of thought and concept that help our growing audience navigate the pitfalls of investing and trading and guide them toward better-informed decisions. You will be an experienced journalist or […]