Chevron seeking a business reporter to write stories

Oil company Chevron Corp. is seeking to hire a business reporter who will write stories for its “newsroom,” reports Michael Hiltzik of the Los Angeles Times. Hiltzik writes, “Chevron’s effort, like those of other big enterprises, is designed to preempt reporting it can’t fully control, because the latter is produced by independent and objective news organizations. By ‘proactively’ […]

FT seeks an economics editorial writer

The FT is looking for an economics leader (editorial) writer, one of the most challenging and stimulating jobs in the organisation and one that is at the heart of international debate on economic issues. The leader column – the official voice of the FT – covers topics including global politics, public policy, economics, business and […]

Santa Rosa Press Democrat seeks a business columnist

The Press Democrat, a Northern California multimedia newsroom that is the largest between San Francisco and Portland, has an immediate opening for a business columnist focused on regional economic trends, local employers and issues confronting workers in white-collar offices and our agricultural fields. We’re the flagship newsroom of Sonoma Media Investments, a privately held Santa […]

WSJ seeks a Numbers columnist

The Wall Street Journal is seeking a writer for its “Numbers” column, one of the news department’s most prominent and popular features. Each week you will captivate and intrigue the world’s most numerate readership with insightful and counter-intuitive takes on the numbers that shape our understanding of the world. The numbers can come from science, […]

Bloomberg Opinion seeks a markets columnist

Bloomberg Opinion is looking for an experienced and energetic journalist with a strong understanding of markets, finance, investing, the economy and central banks. We’re seeking someone who understands and can quickly interpret developments in the U.S. bond, stock and currencies markets in an easy-to-digest manner for a global audience. The successful candidate will be able […]

WSJ seeks a Heard on the Street columnist

The Wall Street Journal is looking for a Heard on the Street columnist to fill an opening on its team in New York. Heard is the long-running financial and economic analysis section of the WSJ with journalists based in five major financial centers across the world. Heard’s columnists regularly produce scoops of insight into the […]

WSJ seeks a Careers and Work columnist

The Wall Street Journal is looking for a creative, enterprising journalist to write a reported column about the quirks, realities and frustrations of workplaces today. This weekly column would give voice to workers far from the C-suite at a pivotal moment for companies, digging into the turf battles on Slack, the issues young people encounter […]

Trump’s letter to editor upsets WSJ reporters

Former President Donald Trump’s letter to the editor, published in The Wall Street Journal, that mistakenly claims the 2020 election was stolen has upset some reporters at the paper, reports Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy of CNN Business. Stelter and Darcy write, “The Journal’s opinion folks are separate from the newsroom and sometimes downright oppositional. Several reporters grumbled to me […]

Bloomberg Opinion seeks a pharma columnist

The energy of a newsroom. The pace of a trading floor. We work hard, and we work fast — while keeping up the creativity and entrepreneurialism we’re known for. It’s what keeps us inventing and reinventing, all the time. Bloomberg LP has built a significant media business spanning television, digital, magazine, radio and live event […]

Why is the biz media skeptical about economic news?

Jonathan Bernstein of Bloomberg Opinion writes Wednesday about the general negativity that surrounds economics news when covered by the business media. Bernstein writes, “This matters because many in the media are reluctant to adjudicate claims from politicians and will settle for describing reality as halfway between whatever the parties say it is. So as long as Republicans […]