Africa bureau chief Cropley joining Reuters Breakingviews
Edward Cropley, Africa bureau chief for Reuters, is joining Reuters Breakingviews in August. Cropley has been the Africa bureau chief based in Johannesburg since January 2016. Before that, he was bureau chief in southern Africa in charge of Reuters editorial operations for South Africa and the other nine countries in the southern Africa region. Cropley […]
FT data journalist Kao moving to London
Data visualization journalist Joanna S. Kao is moving to the London office of the Financial Times at the end of the month. Kao, who was hired in 2016 from Al Jazeera America, is taking on a new role to help steer the technology/development side of FT’s visuals team. Before Al Jazeera America shut down, Kao […]
NY Times hires Spolar as international biz editor
New York Times deputy business editor Adrienne Carter sent out the following announcement on Monday: We are excited to announce that Christine Spolar is joining The New York Times as our International Business Editor. Christine brings a mix of international and business expertise. She is currently the executive editor of Kaiser Health News in Washington, […]
Reporter Lawder leaves Milwaukee Biz Journal
Reporter Melanie Lawder has left the Milwaukee Business Journal. “It’s been a wild (and amazing) two & half years here, but I’m looking forward to what the next chapter holds,” she wrote on Twitter. Lawder said she plans to do some traveling and then explore freelancing. Lawder, who covered retail, restaurants and banking, had been […]
Reuters makes changes to its China team
In a memo to staff, Reuters greater China bureau chief Tony Munroe announced promotions and appointments to the Greater China team: I am pleased to announce the following promotions and additions to the Greater China team. Carolyn Qu promoted to Editor, Reuters Chinese News Carolyn assumes leadership of our Chinese language news service, a core […]
Moser hired as deputy obsession editor at Quartz
Whet Moser, a senior editor at Chicago Magazine, has been hired by Quartz to be its deputy obsession editor. He starts on Monday. Moser joined Chicago Magazine in 2011 and previously blogged daily for the magazine’s Web site. He also developed Web-only content and packages that complement the publication’s print features. He previously worked for the […]
Reporter Johnsen leaving Minneapolis/St. Paul Biz Journal
Britt Johnsen, who most recently covered residential real estate and manufacturing for the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, is leaving the paper. Her last day is Thursday. Johnsen is becoming a content editor at Evans Larson, a public relations firm. She joined the paper earlier this year after a nearly 12-year career at various outlets, most recently […]
Greeley hired by FT Alphaville
Brendan Greeley, who most recently was at Bloomberg, has been hired to write for FT Alphaville. Hemost recently covered the intersection of politics and the economy for Bloomberg News in New York before leaving in March 2017. Greeley was also once a co-anchor of BloombergTelevision’s “Bloomberg Surveillance” and a staff writer at Bloomberg Businessweek. In 2012, he received a New York Press Club […]
Business Insider columnist Greenbaum quits
Daniella Greenbaum, a columnist at Business Insider whose column about actress Scarlett Johansson playing a transgender man in a movie was pulled after co-workers complained, has quit the website. In a letter to editor in chief Nicholas Carlson, Greenbaum wrote: Unfortunately, what happened with my piece — the tarring of a commonsensical view as somehow bigoted […]
CoStar hires Johnson as Midwest editor
Real estate news and information company CoStar Group has hired Allen Johnson to be an editor of its Midwest coverage. For the past 18 months, Johnson has been a senior account manager at Taylor Johnson Public Relations in Chicago. That firm specializes in representing real estate companies. Before that, he held a variety of editing positions at […]
