Morris joins Business Insider as asset management reporter
Meghan Morris has been hired by Business Insider as an asset management reporter. She previously worked at Private Equity Real Estate magazine for the past three years. “I’m grateful for three years diving deep in the private equity real estate world, and I look forward to broadening my coverage in finance land,” said Morris in a […]
WSJ names deputy banking editor, makes other changes to finance team
Wall Street Journal financial editor Charles Forelle sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: Hi all, I’m thrilled to announce new faces and new jobs on the Finance team. Christina Rexrode is named deputy banking editor. As deputy, Christina will help steer the team’s coverage, edit its stories and continue to write on banking. Christina […]
Passman named editor of Credit Union Journal
Aaron Passman has been named editor of Credit Union Journal, succeeding Lisa Freeman, who spent more than 20 years with CU Journal, including serving since 2014 as editor in chief. A story on its website states, “‘It’s an understatement to say that I’ve got some big shoes to fill,’ said Passman, who spent nearly five […]
Houston Chronicle hires finance and economics reporter
Houston Chronicle business editor Al Lewis sent out the following announcement on Friday: Hello everyone: Please welcome John Roper who will be joining the business news staff on Monday as our new finance and economics reporter. John worked for the Chronicle in the mid-2000s and fondly recalls covering the Enron trial. He’s been a bureau chief for […]
Coverage: Wells Fargo to cut thousands of jobs
Wells Fargo & Co. on Thursday said it would reduce jobs as part of its “ongoing transformation” to address industry trends and changes in customer behavior. Josh Beckerman of The Wall Street Journal had the news: The bank expects head count to decline by about 5% to 10% within the next three years, which includes displacements […]
Central Penn Biz Journal seeks banking and finance reporter
The Central Penn Business Journal, a leading publisher of digital and print content for the business community in Central Pennsylvania, is looking for an experienced journalist to cover our banking/financial services beat and take reporting ownership of our growing Lancaster coverage area. The award-winning Journal’s mission is to guide the conversation for the business community, […]
Will business journalists catch the next crisis?
Howard Gold writes for Columbia Journalism Review about whether business journalism will catch the next economic crisis. Gold writes, “Where will the next crisis come from? Speculative buying of stocks with borrowed money led to Black Monday in 1929; computerized ‘portfolio insurance’ and index arbitrage triggered the crash of 1987; the dot-com boom turned into the […]
Why the FT didn’t report on a bank run a decade ago
John Authers of The Financial Times writes about why he didn’t report on a bank run that he saw happening 10 years ago during the financial crisis while visiting his Citibank branch, which was full of Wall Street employees worried about their deposits. Authers writes, “I was finding it a little hard to breathe. There […]
Bloomberg reporter Marsh now covering crypto and blockchain
Bloomberg News reporter Alastair Marsh has switched beats and is now covering cryptocurrencies and blockchain. Marsh, who is based in London, had been covering structured and corporate credit markets for Bloomberg News, including securitization, bonds, credit derivatives and fixed-income ETFs, for the past five years. He joined Bloomberg in February 2012 to cover structured notes. Before that, Marsh […]
FT names Crow its banking editor
David Crow, the senior U.S. business correspondent at the Financial Times who has been primarily covering the pharma beat, has been named its banking editor and will be moving to London next month. On Twitter, Crow wrote, “Very excited about the new opportunity, but sad to say goodbye to the pharma beat. Thanks to everyone […]
