Bloomberg Opinion makes three hires

David Shipley, senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion; and Timothy L. O’Brien, executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion, sent out the following announcement on Monday: Dear Colleagues, It’s with great pleasure that I write to inform you of three new Opinion colleagues. Bobby Ghosh will be joining the editorial board. He will be based in London […]

Chai returns to WSJ as senior editor on publishing desk

Barbara Chai has returned to The Wall Street Journal as a senior editor on the publishing desk. She most recently has been head of arts and culture coverage at Dow Jones Media Group, which includes Barron’s and MarketWatch.com. Chai was previously the managing editor of Speakeasy, The Journal’s pop culture news site. She managed a […]

Webb leaving Reuters for WSJ to become Asia markets editor

Quentin Webb, who has worked for Reuters for the past 15 years, is leaving the news wire for The Wall Street Journal. Webb will become The Journal’s Asia markets editor. Webb joined Reuters Breakingviews as a columnist in London in 2011, and was promoted to associate editor two years later. He moved to Hong Kong […]

Tech reporter Evangelista leaves SF Chronicle

San Francisco technology reporter Benny Evangelista has left the newspaper for a job at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Evangelista had been at the paper for nearly 20 years. He covered everything from the consumer adoption of mobile devices, streaming video and drones to the rise of e-sports as a pastime. He also wrote about wireless, social […]

FT’s Ahmed to become its sports correspondent

Murad Ahmed, who has been covering the gambling, hotels, restaurants and tourism industries for the Financial Times since early 2015, is becoming the paper’s sports correspondent. Ahmed expects to move into his new position by September. Before covering leisure industries, Ahmed was a tech reporter in London covering European tech companies. He joined the FT […]

WSJ hires Maidenberg as reporter on breaking news desk

Micah Maidenberg has been hired by The Wall Street Journal as a reporter on the breaking news desk. He started on Monday. Maidenberg was previously a reporting fellow at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he was part of a team that focuses on investigative stories. The team collaborated with reporters at the […]

FT creates natural resources desk

The Financial Times has brought together its coverage of natural resources to tackle the big structural changes that will shape the industry over the next decade. The FT’s reporting of commodity markets, the environment, oil and energy companies, as well as miners and independent commodity traders, is merged into a single team headed by Neil […]

ProPublica hires Yeung to cover labor issues

ProPublica announced Monday that it has hired reporter Bernice Yeung to cover labor-related issues, as one of multiple business reporters ProPublica is hiring. Yeung comes to ProPublica from Reveal, where her work examined the intersections of labor, violence against women, immigrant communities and public health. She was part of the Emmy-nominated “Rape in the Fields” […]

Pension & Investments hires Croce as DC reporter

Brian Croce joined Pensions & Investments in June as a reporter in the newspaper’s Washington office. Croce will write news and features on legal and regulatory issues relating to defined contribution retirement plans and investment issues important to institutional investors. Before joining P&I, Croce worked at Hanley Wood Media as a senior associate editor, where he wrote news […]

FT names Moore its technology news editor

Malcolm Moore, who has been United Kingdom news editor for The Financial Times for the past two and a half years, is becoming technology news editor. Moore will be based in London. Before being UK news editor, Moore was leisure industries correspondent for the FT. He joined the FT in April 2015 from Telegraph Media […]