Bloomberg News seeks Fed reporter

Bloomberg News is looking for an energetic reporter with sharp news judgment to cover the world’s most important central bank, the Federal Reserve. This demanding and high-profile beat calls for excellence in a wide range of skills, from deadline reporting to enterprise. You must be able to develop sources and break news while also spotting […]

Market News International seeks economics reporter in Frankfurt

Market News International, a global financial news agency, seeks a full-time economic data specialist in its Frankfurt office to ensure accurate and fast reporting of data releases for the Eurozone and its major member states. The successful candidate will oversee all phases of the preparation of data stories and headlines as well as be in […]

Bloomberg seeks economic data reporter in Mexico City

Bloomberg News is seeking to hire an Economic Data Reporter in our Mexico City office to assume current and expand economic data coverage. The successful candidate will extract economic data from press releases in English, Spanish and Portuguese under real-time deadline pressure and survey economists ahead of indicators. The candidate will need to be fast […]

Reuters hires new Fed reporter

Reuters Washington bureau chief Marilyn Thompson and Washington economics editor Tim Ahmann sent out the following announcement on Monday: We are pleased to announce that Howard Schneider, who until recently was at the Washington Post, will join us on April 21 to help lead our Federal Reserve coverage. Howard has been covering international economics for […]

WSJ expands economics news team

The following announcement was sent out Thursday by Washington bureau chief Gerald Seib and economics editor Neil King: We’re delighted to announce new appointments and hires that will bring added heft and fresh skills to The Wall Street Journal’s expanding global economics team. Sudeep Reddy is named deputy global economics editor, while Tim Aeppel is […]

The next Fed concern: Inflation and interest rates

Maybe the worry is confusing investors, or maybe the Fed is anxious about it’s plans to change the stimulus package. Whatever it is, reporters picked up on several themes in the latest Fed’s minutes. Jon Hilsenrath’s story for the Wall Street Journal ran under the headline that the Fed was worried about inflation: Federal Reserve […]

NYTimes biz desk hires Searcey from WSJ

New York Times business editor Dean Murphy sent out the following announcement on Wednesday: We’re pleased to announce that Dionne Searcey of the Wall Street Journal is coming to BizDay to write about the economy. For the past four years, Dionne has been an investigative reporter for the Journal’s Page One enterprise team, and before […]

Yellen works to reassure markets

After her debut to mixed results, Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen worked to clarify her earlier comments on how long the Fed would continue its easy money policy. Bloomberg had this story by Jeff Kearns and Craig Torres: Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, easing investor concern that interest rates may rise earlier than previously […]

WSJ economics team adds two reporters

Wall Street Journal economics editor Neil King sent out the following staff announcement on Monday: We’re pleased to announce two big additions to the Journal’s expanding economics team: Nick Timiraos, Journal housing reporter extraordinaire, and Josh Zumbrun, until just weeks ago Bloomberg’s crack Fed reporter. The two Hoyas bring a wide array of skills to […]

How to take the economy’s measure

An economist told business and financial journalists Saturday to beware of aggregated data because sometimes it hides important trends. “Companies are increasingly managing and mining data to augment government sources,” said Scott Anderson, chief economist of Bank of the West. “What I see happening is a blurring of the lines between traditional government economic data […]