Bloomberg hires Finley as editor on commodities team
Bloomberg News has hired LaKenya Finley an editor for Bloomberg’s energy and commodities group in the Americas. Finley joins from Texas Monthly where she was an assistant editor working on a wide range of Texas-centric cultural, political and news coverage, including stories on the state’s energy industry. She got her start at Newsday in the […]
Reuters seeks a senior commodities correspondent in Moscow
If you live and breathe commodities news, we’d like to speak you. We are searching for a correspondent to lead coverage of Russian metals, grains and other commodities. Russia is a commodities titan: the world’s biggest exporter of wheat, pig iron and agricultural fertilizer, the biggest diamond producer, the second-largest platinum producer, the third-largest gold, […]
Houston Chronicle seeks an energy and power grid reporter
The Houston Chronicle – named the state’s best news organization by the Texas Managing Editors five years running – is seeking a versatile reporter to tell the stories of the power grid in Texas. It is a beat that covers the legislative process, development and innovation in the renewables sector, and the retail power market. […]
Houston Chronicle energy reporter Buckley set to depart
Kyra Buckley, an energy reporter at The Houston Chronicle, wrote on Twitter that she is leaving to become a business reporter for Oregon Public Broadcasting: “I’m in my final days at the @HoustonChron. Words cannot express how much I’ve learned covering energy and the electric grid, but mostly from working with the team on the […]
Grover moves to energy beat at Reuters
Reuters reporter Natalie Grover is moving to the energy beat. She has been the European pharma correspondent since April 2022. Before that, Grover had been working as a freelance health and science journalist. She was also a science correspondent at The Guardian. Grover has previously worked at Reuters from June 2013 to September 2017 as a correspondent for health […]
E&E News hires Picon to cover energy policy
E&E News has hired Andres Picon to cover energy policy in Congress. Picon has been a Politico fellow reporting on energy and environment policy for E&E News. He came to Politico from the San Francisco Chronicle, where he was a general assignment reporter. Previously, he covered education at the San Antonio Express-News and was a reporter and researcher at […]
FT energy editor Brower becoming US politics editor
Derek Brower has been named U.S. political news editor of the Financial Times in New York. In his new role, Brower will oversee the FT’s 2024 presidential election coverage and manage the FT’s Washington bureau, including reporting on foreign and military affairs, economic and monetary policy, and business regulation. He will also oversee political reporting […]
OPEC cancels accreditation for Bloomberg, Reuters and WSJ
OPEC has canceled accreditation for reporters from The Wall Street Journal, Reuters and Bloomberg News to cover a conference in Vienna, reports Emma Ross-Thomas of Bloomberg News. Ross-Thomas reports that the conference “will feature the head of BP Plc and the European Union’s top energy official.” “‘We are very concerned by the prospect of OPEC […]
Portland Press Herald seeks a reporter to cover energy and utilities
The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram seeks an outstanding journalist to cover energy/utilities and other business news. The top candidate for this position will have a distinguished record of using public documents, data and compelling interviews to break news, reveal truths, hold the powerful accountable and help readers understand complex issues. We are an ambitious […]
Energy reporter Hulac laid off from CQ/Roll Call
Energy and environmental reporter Benjamin Hulac has been laid off from CQ Roll Call. He had been with the publications since January 2019. Hulac previously worked for E&E News, also in Washington. He is a graduate of Lehigh University and holds a master’s from Columbia University in journalism.