Politico adding energy, housing and tech reporters in New York

Politico states editorial director Ryan Hutchins, New York editor Michael Gartland and New York policy editor Paul Demko sent out the following on Friday: Team – POLITICO has been on the ground in New York for a dozen years, building the state’s largest Capitol bureau and breaking stories that set the terms of politics from […]
Axios rebrands newsletter to focus more on energy

Axios has rebranded its daily energy and climate newsletter “Generate” into “Axios Future of Energy.” It will be written by Generate co-author Ben Geman and Amy Harder, who joined Axios as national energy correspondent. The newsletter will report on the people, companies and technologies that are shaping these major developments. Geman is a senior energy reporter at Axios. […]
Politico energy reporter Lefebvre named deputy editor

Politico energy reporter Ben Lefebvre has been promoted to deputy editor at the organization. He has been covering oil and gas policy for Politico since February 2017. Lefebvre previously worked ICIS Energy in Tokyo covering East Asia energy issues and at The Wall Street Journal covering energy out of Houston. He also worked at the Chicago Sun-Times […]
Axios hires Harder as national energy correspondent

Axios has hired Amy Harder to be its national energy correspondent. She will start on Sept. 8. For the past four years, she has been founding executive editor of Cipher, a news publication supported by Breakthrough Energy. Harder previously was an energy reporter for Axios, writing the weekly “Harder Line” column. She also covered energy for […]
Politico seeks an energy and climate editor in Brussels

POLITICO is seeking a talented editor to lead our coverage of energy and climate policy and politics in Brussels. In Brussels and across Europe, governments are trying to determine how best to prepare for a warming word. The endeavor is fraught — politicians are questioning core climate policies, economic woes have pulled focus elsewhere, and […]
S&P Global seeks a gas reporter in Houston

You are an experienced, scoop-driven business news journalist who loves serving readers with the commodities- and financial-market-relevant news they need to make critical business decisions. You know your market, and you can’t wait to tell people what’s happening. You are comfortable interviewing senior industry executives and also love diving into earnings reports and regulatory filings. […]
Politico hires Baustin to cover energy and environment

Politico California policy editor Debra Kahn, senior policy editor Joel Rubin and editorial director Christopher Cadelago sent out the following: We’re thrilled to announce a new addition to the California team: Noah Baustin, who starts today as an energy and environment reporter. Noah comes to us from the San Francisco Standard, where he covered local […]
How the corporate message is obfuscating climate coverage

David Sassoon, the founder and publisher of Inside Climate News, writes about how corporate messaging is interfering with the ability of journalists to deliver the message of their impact on the climate. Sassoon writes, “In his brief survey, he didn’t mention a large part of the problem—that since the 1980s, climate science has been up […]
Heatmap News hires Kaufman to write newsletter

Heatmap News has hired Alexander Kaufman to write its flagship daily morning newsletter AM Briefing. He previously was a senior reporter covering energy and climate change at HuffPost before leaving via a buyout earlier this year. A two-time winner of the SEAL Environmental Journalism Award and a 2024 recipient of the Covering Climate Now Journalism Award, he has […]
OPEC bars five news organizations from meeting

OPEC excluded five of the world’s leading news organizations from covering its biennial oil seminar in Vienna, attended by the group’s ministers and senior industry executives, reports Will Kennedy of Bloomberg News. Kennedy reports, “The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries did not accredit Bloomberg News, despite repeated requests, and offered no explanation for its decision. The […]