NY Times hires FT’s Solomon for Berlin bureau

Financial Times reporter Erika Solomon has been hired by the New York Times in its Berlin bureau. She started on Monday. Solomon was part of a team at the FT that won a Gerald Loeb Award this past year for its coverage of Wirecard. She has been at the newspaper for eight years. She previously worked at […]

Business Post taps Taylor as tech and innovation editor

Charlie Taylor has joined The Business Post in Ireland as a technology and innovation editor. Recently, he was a business journalist at The Irish Times, where he reported on business and technology. He co-founded Hyphen in Dublin, a specialist content agency providing editorial and marketing content. He has previously worked at The Irish Times from […]

CNN promotes Toh to reporting and writing role

Michelle Toh, a programming editor for CNN Business based in Hong Kong, is moving to a role where she will only report and write. She has been leading digital production for CNN Business’ international team, coordinating strategy for its mobile and desktop platforms worldwide, and reporting news and feature stories on companies in Asia. Before […]

NY Times names Peltier West Africa correspondent

The New York Times has appointed Elian Peltier as West Africa correspondent, based in Dakar, Senegal. In his new role, he will be working with bureau chief Ruth MacLean. Peltier joined the Times as an intern in the Paris bureau in 2015. In 2017, he became a full-time reporter/researcher. In addition to covering breaking news, […]

Eisenhammer named Reuters bureau chief for Mexico and Central America

Stephen Eisenhammer, who has been based in Brazil for the past three years, has been named Mexico and Central America bureau chief for Reuters. He had been reporting from Angola from 2017 to 2019. The foreign correspondent was also previously based in Brazil from 2014 to 2017. Prior to that, Eisenhammer was the natural resources correspondent in […]

CoStar buys French real estate news service

CoStar Group said it has acquired France’s premier commercial real estate news service, Business Immo, for an undisclosed amount. Business Immo was founded in 2004 and covers the French commercial real estate market. It has over 300,000 unique visitors each month, including brokers, investors, developers and lenders. Business Immo has extended its product portfolio to […]

Page hired by The Economist as Asia diplomatic editor

Jeremy Page, the China political and diplomatic editor for The Wall Street Journal, has been hired by The Economist to be its Asia diplomatic editor. He will be based in India. Page has been in The Journal’s Beijing bureau, leading coverage of domestic politics, international relations and security. He joined the Journal in Beijing in […]

Reuters seeks a Moscow bureau chief

Reuters is looking for a candidate with a deep understanding of the Russian political, economic and corporate landscape coupled with the ability to organise a large team of reporters in a challenging environment. The successful person will be a journalist committed to agenda-setting coverage who is able to generate compelling ideas and edit with authority across all facets of […]

Khan named TV reporter at Global News in Toronto

Ahmar Khan has been tapped as a TV reporter at Global News in Toronto. He has previously been working with Global News as a reporter and is a journalism instructor at Carleton University. He was also a reporter at CBC and has previously worked at CBC from November 2018 to December 2019 as a news […]

NY Times names Bradsher its Beijing bureau chief

Keith Bradsher has been appointed Beijing bureau chief, where he will continue to cover business and economics in China for The New York Times. He will also be responsible for overseeing the bureau. Bradsher has been serving as Shanghai bureau chief/senior writer for Asia economics and business since 2016. Before that, he was Hong Kong […]