Lauren Hepler has been hired by CalMatters to cover the California economy. She will start on June 15. She will report on gig workers, unemployment, the state budget and inequality. Hepler previously worked at Protocol,...
The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) called on the Trump Administration to rethink two significant policy changes that would place new curbs on access to information about the U.S. economy. SABEW...
Abe Streep of the New York Times writes about the massive job loss in communities around the country with no reporters to cover the story. Streep writes, “In late April, Jim Richerson, the chief...
Adam Behsudi, a reporter covering international trade policy at Politico, is leaving the organization after more than six years. His last day is Friday. Behsudi is joining the International Monetary Fund. Previously, he was...
Alex Traub of The New York Times interviewed business reporter Ben Casselman on how he assesses unemployment data. Here is an excerpt: What can you do to interpret that number? One thing we’ve been...
The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing sent out the following statement on Tuesday: The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) issues a warning to federal, state and local authorities not...
The Wall Street Journal has hired Gwynn Guilford as an economics reporter. Previously, Guilford was with Quartz. She held the post of senior economics reporter at Quartz. Before joining Quartz, Guilford was a blogger...
The Labor Department is suspending a plan to change how it releases economic data, in a win for financial-media firms that had lobbied against the changes, reports Alexander Osipovich of The Wall Street Journal. Osipovich reports,...
The Washington Post is seeking an investigative reporter for its economics team who focuses on how corporations and special interest groups influence laws and regulation and the consequences of those actions for the country....
If you are a journalist who always knows the latest unemployment rate and can explain what difference Wall Street makes to my life as a Californian, you might be the next economy reporter at...
