NY Times hires FT’s Grovum as social media editor
Millie Tran, the global growth editor at The New York Times, sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: Please join us in welcoming Jake Grovum to The Times. He’ll be joining as a social editor on the Off-Platform team. Jake comes to us from The Financial Times, where after leading the social media team for a year, […]
Broad Institute welcomes new managing editor from Xconomy
Corie Lok, former special projects editor for Xconomy, has joined Broad Institute as its new managing editor on its communications team. Broad Institute is a research organization created by MIT and Harvard to further explore the genetic basis of disease, and how to translate that understanding into more effective prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. Prior to […]
What a departing reporter liked about Crain’s Detroit Business
Bill Shea, who announced Monday his departure from Crain’s Detroit Business to cover sports business for The Athletic, writes about what he liked about working for the weekly business newspaper. Shea writes, “It also was difficult to leave because Crain’s journalists do brilliant work. They hold the powerful accountable. They don’t just report business news, […]
CNBC.com hires two new editors
CNBC.com managing editor Jeffrey McCracken sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: I am pleased to announce two new hires to the growing CNBC.com newsroom. First, Riya Bhattacharjee has been hired as a hotseat editor for our San Francisco bureau. As part of her job, Riya will help manage our website in the evenings when later breaking […]
Ferek joins business and policy team in WSJ DC bureau
Katy Stech Ferek has joined the business and policy reporting team in The Wall Street Journal’s D.C. bureau, where she’ll cover general assignment news with a focus on China, national security and foreign investment. She covered corporate and personal bankruptcy for the paper since 2011. Prior to that, she covered business news for The Charleston […]
Kosdrosky joins Automotive News as social media coordinator
Terry Kosdrosky has joined Automotive News as social media coordinator and assistant editor of autonews.com. A story on its website states, “Kosdrosky, 48, is returning to Crain Communications Inc., having been a reporter at Crain’s Detroit Business from 1998 to 2005. While there, he covered a variety of beats, including auto suppliers. “He then moved to Dow […]
Tech reporter Kahn leaves Bloomberg News
Jeremy Kahn, a senior technology reporter at Bloomberg News, is leaving the organization. His last day is Monday. Kahn had been at Bloomberg for eight years and was based in London, covering technology and tech companies in London. He previously was a freelance writer in India and Washington. He was also the managing editor of […]
PC360 welcomes new digital managing editor
Heather Turner has joined PC360’s Denver office as the new digital managing editor. Turner joins the organization from Key Media, where she served as a features and special projects reporter-editor for Insurance Business America, Insurance Business Canada, and Canadian Mortgage Professional. Turner graduated from Florida State University, where she majored in media and minored in […]
Wang joins Reuters’ M&A team to cover China deals
Greg Roumeliotis, corporate finance and deals editor at Reuters, sent out the following announcement on Monday: I’m excited to announce that Echo Wang has joined the deals team in New York to cover cross-border M&A and investments, with a focus on Chinese money. Chinese dealmaking is coming under intense U.S. scrutiny over technology transfers, information […]
Crain’s Detroit reporter Shea leaves for The Athletic
Crain’s Detroit senior reporter Bill Shea has left the paper for a job at The Athletic. Shea will be part of its new vertical devoted to sports business, media, and sports law. He has been at Crain’s Detroit for 13 years, covering everything in sports business, including labor, contracts, stadium/arena construction, social media, broadcast/streaming media rights, e-sports, […]
