Gizmodo’s Narisetti explains how to have a diverse newsroom
Raju Narisetti is the chief executive officer of Gizmodo Media Group, which operates websites Gizmodo, Deadspin, Jezebel, Jalopnik, Kotaku and Lifehacker and is owned by the Univision. He was formerly senior vice president of strategy at News Corp., the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and MarketWatch.com. Narisetti also held multiple administrative positions at […]
How GlobalAtlanta.com covers international news with a local perspective
Trevor Williams is the managing editor for Global Atlanta, an online news site that covers international news related to Atlanta. It bills itself as the only news service dedicated to covering how Atlanta connects with the global economy. Williams, a University of Georgia graduate, has been managing editor since January 2015. Global Atlanta, which started […]
What’s behind the expansion plans at “Marketplace”
Deborah Clark is the senior vice president and general manager of the Marketplace portfolio, including “Marketplace,” “Marketplace Morning Report,” “Marketplace Weekend,” and “Marketplace Tech.” After a previous stint at the public radio show owned by American Public Media, Clark rejoined the team in 2009 as a senior producer and eventually was promoted to executive producer of the […]
Tech journalism legend Mossberg speaks about his career
Walt Mossberg, who announced recently that he plans to retire in June, is arguably the most influential technology journalist of the past 25 years. Mossberg, 70, is currently executive editor of The Verge and editor at large of Recode, a tech news site that he co-founded in early 2014 with Kara Swisher after both left The Wall […]
How covering the Libor scandal turned into a book for this WSJ journalist
David Enrich is The Wall Street Journal’s financial enterprise editor, managing a team of investigative reporters in New York. He previously was European banking editor for The Journal, responsible for coordinating its coverage of banking and regulatory policy across Europe.Enrich joined the Journal in December 2007 in New York as a reporter writing about the […]
What’s behind the Gatehouse biz newspaper strategy
Adam Reinebach is the chief executive officer of BridgeTower Media, which is part of Gatehouse Media, a newspaper company that owns more than 100 newspapers across the country. BridgeTower Media is the subsidiary that operates Gatehouse’s business publications. In 2015, Gatehouse acquired the business newspapers previously operated by Dolan Media for $35 million. Those include […]
When the largest company HQ in Peoria decides to move
Matt Buedel is a business reporter at the Peoria Journal-Star newspaper in Illinois, a city whose biggest headquarters — Caterpillar Inc. — announced last week it was moving to the Chicago area. Buedel has been covering the manufacturer since March 2016. He grew up in Springfield and has a journalism degree from Bradley University. He […]
What it’s like to be an anchor for Cheddar
Kristen Scholer is the senior anchor at Cheddar, which launched in 2016 and is a business news channel for millennials. Cheddar broadcasts live from the New York Stock Exchange, and it’s also available on Pluto TV and live streams on Twitter. Scholer joined Cheddar in April 2016 after spending 17 months as a reporter at […]
The biz writer who covers philosophy and psychology
Olivia Goldhill, a writer for the financial news site Quartz, is one of just a handful of journalists — business or otherwise — in the United States who writes on philosophy and psychology. Recently, Goldhill has written about whether driverless cars should kill their own passengers to save a pedestrian, interviewed the Oxford philosopher who gave Elon Musk the […]
Poets & Quants and the growth of biz school coverage
John Byrne, the editor in chief of business school news site Poets & Quants, has the distinction of creating the first business school ranking back in 1988 for Businessweek. Business school rankings have since become a cottage industry for business news media, with lists being pumped out on a regular basis by Forbes, U.S. News, […]
