Jackson hired as associate business editor for South Carolina paper

Sherry Jackson has been hired as associate business editor for Community Newspapers in South Carolina, meaning she will oversee content for the Upstate Business Journal. She writes, “As some of you may remember, three years ago my family and I left Greenville to head west. While we enjoyed our time in the hot Arizona desert, […]

Morning Consult hires Silverman as senior reporter

Alex Silverman has been appointed senior reporter, sports at Morning Consult. His new role began Tuesday. There, Silverman will be providing news, insight and analysis on the business of sports. The reporting may also often incorporate Morning Consult’s proprietary survey search data. Previously, he was a corporate communications manager at Univision where he worked on […]

Kohen joins WSJ as arts and entertainment editor

Yael Kohen has joined the Wall Street Journal as an arts and entertainment editor. Previously, she was working at Refinery29 as an executive editor. She has also served as a contributing editor and associate editor at Marie Claire. Kohen also worked as a reporter for the New York Magazine and The New York Sun. Initially, […]

Houston Biz Journal names new managing editor, new AME

The Houston Business Journal has named Jonathan Adams as its new managing editor and Olivia Pulsinelli as its new assistant managing editor. A story on its website states, “Adams formerly served as HBJ’s associate editor, and Pulsinelli served as HBJ’s senior web editor. “Prior to joining the HBJ, Adams worked at the regional design center at Lee Enterprises as […]

Cattan named Bloomberg’s Mexico City bureau chief

Nacha Cattan, a reporter for Bloomberg News in Mexico City, has been named bureau chief. She replaces Carlos Rodriguez, who will now be senior editor for Spanish-language content. Cattan covers the Mexican economy and government for the terminal and for Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets magazines. Before joining Bloomberg in 2011, she wrote from Mexico […]

Einbinder moves to Business Insider’s investigations team

Nicole Einbinder, a reporter at Insider, is moving to Business Insider’s investigations team. Einbinder was a 2017 Frontline-Columbia Abrams Journalism Fellow. A graduate of Columbia Journalism School, she writes about social justice, immigration, politics and women’s rights, and has pursued investigations examining everything from violence against transgender women in Central America to an Arkansas law […]

Business Insider reporter Peterson moves to investigations team

Business Insider reporter Becky Peterson, who has been covering tech deals for the website, is now on the investigations team. She previously was also an enterprise tech reporter. Peterson has been at Business Insider since June 2017 and is based in the San Francisco bureau. She previously worked for Folio as an associate editor. She holds […]

Velasquez takes on editing role at Rivard Report

JJ Velasquez has transitioned to an editor role at Rivard Report with a focus on building readership and keeping the current readers engaged. However, he will still be writing about tech until the open position can be filled, he tweets. Previously, he has also worked as an editor at the Community Impact Newspaper and as […]

Input hires Kasana to cover tech news

Input magazine has hired Mehreen Kasana to cover tech news. She started last week. Input is a new technology publication. Kasana had been working at Bustle as a news writer since March 2017. Before that, she spent five years as new media editor at Tanqeed. She has also worked as a front page editor for Huffington Post. […]

Charlotte Observer hires Muccigrosso to cover retail

The Charlotte Observer has hired Catherine “Kitty” Muccigrosso as retail reporter. She started on Monday. Muccigrosso is the longtime assistant editor at the Rock Hill Herald. She started there in 2004, after previous stints at papers in Columbia, Missouri, and Jamestown, New York. She won a McClatchy President’s Award in 2011 for a special project […]