Crain acquires parent of Oil and Gas Investor

Detroit-based Crain Communications announced Monday that it has acquired Hart Energy, a news and media company focused on the energy sector and headquartered in Houston, for an undisclosed amount. A story by Nick Manes of Crain’s Detroit states, “Hart Energy’s brands include Oil and Gas Investor, E&P and the DUG conferences, among others. Financial terms […]

Reuters seeks a Houston bureau chief

Reuters seeks an experienced editorial leader in Houston to drive corporate energy and oil and gas market coverage from the heart of the US energy industry. This is an exciting time to take on energy coverage with oil and gas production at a record high and as the world’s top energy companies execute the biggest […]

HuffPost energy reporter Kaufman departs

Alexander Kaufman, a senior reporter covering energy and climate change at HuffPost, based in New York, is leaving via a buyout. A two-time winner of the SEAL Environmental Journalism Award and a 2024 recipient of the Covering Climate Now Journalism Award, he has filed stories from the Arctic and the Amazon, Europe and East Asia. […]

Bloomberg taps Sanchez to cover the energy industry

Emma Sanchez has been tapped by Bloomberg News to cover the energy industry out of its Houston bureau. She will cover the world’s largest oilfield servicers, drillers and equipment makers. Sanchez has been in Bloomberg’s rotation program for the past year, covering beats such as credit and Chile. She interned for Bloomberg, NBC News and […]

Canary Media gets $300K from MacArthur Foundation

Energy news site Canary Media will receive $300,000 from the MacArthur Foundation, according to an announcement Tuesday. The money will support its general operations, including journalism covering the transition to clean energy and solutions to the climate crisis. The support comes as Canary is merging next month with the Energy News Network and its reporting […]

RTO Insider seeks a California energy and climate reporter

Fast-growing trade publication (www.rtoinsider.com) covering the electric power industry and climate policy seeks an energetic, inquisitive beat reporter in California to cover regulatory and legislative policy news and write enterprise features. The best reporters know how to go narrow and deep on a subject, gaining enough expertise to translate complex issues into readable prose. This […]

Inside Climate hires Martin to cover renewable energy

Inside Climate News has hired Arcelia Martin to cover renewable energy. She has been at the Dallas Morning News covering equity and economic topics in North Texas. Martin previously covered housing and real estate for The Tennessean in Nashville. She was raised in San Diego, California, and graduated with her master’s from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and […]

Reuters seeks a China energy correspondent

Reuters is seeking a dynamic journalist with strong source-building skills, great story ideas and a track record of breaking news to join our Beijing-based team as China energy correspondent. The successful candidate will deliver a best-in-class news file for professional and media clients on a country that is both the world’s biggest oil importer and […]

Dang to cover US oil companies for Reuters

Sheila Dang is joining Reuters’ Houston energy team on Jan. 6 and take over coverage of U.S. oil majors Exxon and Chevron, as well as large independent producers such ConocoPhillips and Occidental Petroleum. Dang joins as the industry works through the biggest consolidation in two decades. The U.S. is pumping record volumes of oil and […]

Climate news organization has raised $750,000

Covering Climate Now, the global nonprofit news collaboration started by former Columbia Journalism Review editor Kyle Pope, has raised more than $750,000 in funding to continue its work helping journalists to tell the defining story of our time. The funding has come in the fourth quarter from a range of donors, including the John D. […]