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 […]

Upstream seeks a China energy correspondent

Upstream is the go-to source for coverage of oil, gas and the energy sector’s efforts to confront manmade climate change while delivering the energy that people and industries require. Upstream provides exclusive insight into global oil and gas companies’ exploration and production, and we have expanded and improved our coverage of the sector’s low carbon […]

OPIS hires Naveed as a reporter

Shaheer Naveed

Shaheer Naveed has been hired by OPIS, a Dow Jones company, to cover refined products, including jet fuel, diesel and gas. He was a reporter at the Wichita Business Journal covering land and workforce issues for the past year. “This role will be fun,” he wrote on LinkedIn. “I’m looking forward to analyzing more data and […]

Cowboy State Daily seeks a business reporter

Cowboy State Daily, one of the Rocky Mountain region’s largest news organizations, is searching for a tenacious reporter to cover energy in Wyoming — a state at the bullseye of the national energy debate. How the state’s legacy coal, oil, natural gas, uranium and trona industries adapt as the national and global energy conversation shifts […]

San Antonio biz reporter DiNatale leaving for California

San Antonio Express-News business reporter Sara DiNatale is leaving the newspaper to cover politics for the San Francisco Chronicle. She covers energy, the Texas grid, ERCOT, CPS Energy, and labor for the Express-News. DiNatale joined the staff in 2023. She won a 2024 George Polk Award for her investigation on the Texas residential solar industry, “In Broad […]

AP seeks an energy transition reporter in SE Asia

Do you follow the green energy transition taking place in Southeast Asia, from investments in renewables to electrification of transportation to cleaner industry in major cities? Do you wonder if the Belt and Road Initiative will lead to greener infrastructure, or whether it will build in the use of more fossil fuel for decades? And finally, […]

Boudreau departs Business Insider

Senior sustainability reporter Catherine Boudreau was among the layoffs at Business Insider. She joined in 2022 and previously was a sustainability reporter at Politico. Boudreau joined Politico in 2016 as a food and agriculture reporter. Before that, she was at Bloomberg News, where she covered the food and agriculture business and federal policies impacting farm […]

Kool named utilities reporter at Maine daily

Daniel Kool has been named the Portland Press Herald’s utilities reporter, covering electricity, gas, broadband — anything you get a bill for. He also covers the impact of tariffs on Maine and picks up the odd the business story. He joined the Press Herald in 2024 as the night reporter. A graduate of Boston University, […]

NY Times hires Joselow to cover climate policy

Lyndsey Layton and Jesse Pesta, deputy editors on the climate desk at the New York Times, sent out the following to the staff: We are thrilled to announce that Maxine Joselow, an energetic reporter, will be joining the Climate desk to cover climate policy and politics. Maxine spent the last four years at The Washington Post, first […]

Houston Chronicle taps Nostrant to cover oil and energy

The Houston Chronicle has named Rachel Nostrant to cover oil and energy on the business news desk. A story on its website states, “In this role, Nostrant will cover the complexities of an industry at a crossroads as it navigates calls for global growth while at the same time bracing for a transition to cleaner fuels. She’ll […]

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