Ryan to cover municipal issues for CBC

Haley Ryan, a reporter at CBC/Radio-Canada, is now covering municipal issues across mainland Nova Scotia for CBC. Previously, Ryan reported for Metro Halifax, where she covered everything from provincial politics, arts, crime and feature stories to city council and weather. She also worked freelance for HERE Magazine in Canada. Ryan graduated from St. Thomas University […]

Rest of World hires Sengupta as South Asia editor

Rest of World has hired Durga Sengupta as its South Asia editor. Sengupta was previously the Southeast Asia Desk Editor for The Ken, where she worked for nearly five years. During that time, she worked closely with reporters across the organization to sharpen their pitches; to ideate, edit, and put out deeply reported long-form and […]

Business in Vancouver web editor Chiang departing

Chuck Chiang, the web editor for Business in Vancouver, is leaving the publication. His last day is Feb. 3. He has also been the Asia Pacific writer for the publication, where he has worked since May 2017. Chiang previously was at The Vancouver Sun as Asia Pacific columnist and web editor. He was also the […]

Global News hires Wright as video journalist

Vanessa Wright has joined Global News as a video journalist. Recently, she was a student intern at the Muslim Network TV in Canada. Wright has a bachelor’s degree from Toronto Metropolitan University. You can congratulate Wright on Twitter.

Drapers taps Dirvanauskas to serve as deputy editor

Gabriele Dirvanauskas, a fashion editor at Drapers Magazine, has been promoted to deputy editor. Prior to joining Drapers in 2020, Dirvanauskas was at News UK, where she worked for nine years. There she held various roles, including stylist, writer, deputy fashion editor and fashion editor. Dirvanauskas has a B.A. in journalism from the University of […]

Capurro joins The i Paper as environment correspondent

The i Paper has hired Daniel Capurro as an environment correspondent. He joined from The Telegraph, where he has worked for about six years. There, Capurro held the posts of assistant comment editor, senior reporter, and editor for Front Bench, The Telegraph’s daily political newsletter, and s. He also worked at The Times. Capurro has […]

ELLE UK names Medley contributing editor

ELLE UK has appointed Georgia Medley contributing editor. Currently, she is a fashion and accessories editor at the magazine, a role she will finish on Feb. 10. Medley has worked freelance for 11 years. Previously, she was a fashion assistant at Harper’s Bazaar and a contributing fashion assistant at GQ Magazine. She interned at Conde […]

Briah joins Incisive Media as reporter for Cover

Incisive Media has hired Jaskeet Briah as a reporter for Cover, where she will cover employees’ benefits, financial protection, health and personal insurance, cost of living, Purchasing Managers’ Index and income protection. Recently, Briah was a reporter at Alliance News Limited in London. Before that, she worked for Mulberry Media and was a content writer […]

Venables departs LBC for Sky News

Rachael Venables, a correspondent at LBC, Global, has left to join Sky News as a journalist. Venables had been with Global for more than eight years, previously serving as a freelance journalist and then as a broadcast journalist. She also worked freelance for BBC Birmingham. She has also worked at BBC Radio Leeds and BBC […]

Toronto Star digital producer Ejiofor departs for new role

Annette Ejiofor has joined news site and podcast CANADALAND as a managing editor. Recently, she was a digital producer at The Toronto Star. Ejiofor worked at Spectrum News as a digital producer, copy editor and social media manager. She worked part-time as a politics, features and long form editor at venture-backed company Blavity Inc. She […]