Martin becomes Africa/Middle East correspondent for Bloomberg
Bloomberg News reporter Peter Martin is now its Africa and Middle East correspondent, based in Nairobi. He previously was a global defense and intelligence correspondent in Washington. Martin also worked for Bloomberg in China. He also worked at APCO Worldwide before joining Bloomberg News. Martin holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oxford and master’s degrees […]
Semafor hires Dadouch to cover Saudi region
Semafor has hired Sarah Dadouch to cover Saudi financial, business and geopolitical news. She has been at The Washington Post as a Beirut-based correspondent covering Syria and Lebanon, as well as the Gulf. Previously, she was a Reuters correspondent in Beirut, Riyadh and Istanbul covering Lebanon, Syria, the Gulf and Turkey. She grew up in Damascus, Syria. […]
Politico hires Clark to cover cybersecurity in Europe
Politico has hired Sam Clark to cover cybersecurity in Europe. He started on Monday. Clark previously was at MLex in Brussels. He also worked for S&P Global Market Intelligence in London as a reporter. He holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from the University of Kent.
FT taps Arnold as financial regulation editor
Martin Arnold has been named the financial regulation editor of the Financial Times. He is based in London. Arnold previously led the Frankfurt bureau, while writing about the European Central Bank and the eurozone economy. He has worked for the FT since 1999 in roles including banking editor, deputy companies editor, private equity correspondent and Paris […]
Reuters denies claim that killed staffer was spy
Reuters has denied a claim from Russia that its killed staffer, Ryan Evans, was a British spy, reports Francesca Ebel of The Washington Post. Ebel reports, “At a press briefing Wednesday, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova claimed without evidence that security adviser Ryan Evans, who was killed in a strike Saturday on the Sapphire Hotel in the […]
Parry departs Mergermarket for Capitol Forum
The Capitol Forum has hired Jacob Parry to be senior editor for Europe. He will be based in Brussels and will continue to cover EU competition policy. Parry previously was at Mergermarket as a senior reporter and chief regulatory correspondent. He also worked at BC Business in Vancouver. Parry is a graduate of McGill University.
Evans, Reuters staffer killed, was indispensable to coverage
Ryan Evans, who was killed in a missile strike on a hotel in eastern Ukraine, had combat experience and a professional manner that made him indispensable to Reuters’ coverage of wars and an unfailing source of support for many journalists, reports Elizabeth Piper of Reuters. Piper reports, “He befriended many of the reporters he was helping stay safe, […]
Russia bars 14 WSJ reporters, including EIC Tucker
Russia has banned dozens of journalists, including 14 from The Wall Street Journal, reports Katie Robertson of The New York Times. Robertson reports, “The ministry said it had barred ‘editorial staff and reporters of leading liberal-globalist publications involved in the production and dissemination of ‘fakes’ about Russia and the Russian armed forces, and the propaganda ‘cover’ for […]
Rennie, Beijing bureau chief of The Economist, to write weekly column
David Rennie, the Beijing bureau chief for The Economist, is leaving Beijing to write a weekly geopolitics column for the publication. Rennie joined The Economist in 2007 as European Union correspondent and Charlemagne columnist, based in Brussels. From July 2010 to July 2012 he was British political editor and author of the Bagehot column, based in […]
Kan returns to Bloomberg to cover Asia health care
Bloomberg News has hired Karoline Kan to cover health-related stories in China and the rest of Asia. She previously worked at Bloomberg from February 2020 to September 2022 covering climate stories. Kan also worked at China Dialogue and as a writer/researcher at The New York Times. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Beijing International Studies University and […]
