Porter to stop writing “Economic Scene” column at NY Times

Eduardo Porter, who has written the “Economic Scene” column for the New York Times for the past six years, is moving to another position at the paper. Porter writes: I will miss writing the column. But I relish the opportunity this opens to write in another form, free of a column’s weekly demands to explore […]

WSJ’s Sider to cover business of travel

Wall Street Journal reporter Alison Sider is now covering the business of travel as her beat. She started her new beat on Tuesday. Sider previously spent nearly six years covering energy beats at The Journal, Most recently, she was covering oil and natural gas markets in New York. Previously she wrote about the energy industry […]

Bloomberg Law hires Stein to cover Medicare

Shira Stein has been hired by Bloomberg Law to cover Medicare. She started on Monday. Stein is a former intern on the Metro Desk at The Washington Post. She also spent a summer interning with Bloomberg BNA on its corporate and transactional news desk and a semester interning with The Durango Herald as its Washington correspondent. During […]

WSJ hires Dooling as product lead for newsletters

The Wall Street Journal has hired Annemarie Dooling to be product lead for its newsletters. She starts next week. Dooling will be working with senior editor Cory Schouten on The Journal’s big newsletter push. She has been with Vox Media since March 2016, and for the last six months she was newsletter and retention growth lead, […]

Bloomberg BNA hires Newsday’s Dooley to cover California environment

Bloomberg BNA has hired Newsday environmental reporter Emily Dooley to cover the California environment. She started on Monday. Dooley had been with Newsday since November 2010, and for the past three-and-a-half years she was the environmental and Superstorm Sandy reporter. She covered the environment on Long Island, with its 3 million people and countless waterways […]

Cheddar hires Macheel as a reporter

Tanaya Macheel has been hired as a reporter for online business news channel Cheddar. She starts next month. She will be doing original reporting on fintech and crypto as the second reporter on the Cheddar scoops team, along with Alex Heath and editor Jim Roberts. Macheel has most recently been an editor at Tearsheet, a […]

Sutton hired by Adweek to cover tech

Mic reporter Kelsey Sutton has been hired by Adweek to cover technology. She starts next week and will be based in New York. Sutton had been at Mic for the past year, focusing broadly on the media and on media and politics. She’ll be the first writer at Mic dedicated to covering the media. Before […]

WSJ hires Honan to be City Hall reporter

The Wall Street Journal has hired Katie Honan to cover New York City Hall. She starts June 4. Honan previously covered Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, Corona and the Rockaway peninsula for DNAinfo New York, a New York City local news site. She covered neighborhood-focused news, from crime to real estate, and shoots her own photos and video. She […]

Seaman of Reuters to join LinkedIn as news editor

Reuters digital editor Andrew Seaman has left the news organization to become a news editor at LinkedIn. He starts his new job on Tuesday. On Twitter, Seaman wrote, “It’s an honor to even be a very small part of this company’s amazing history. It’s also been a privilege to work alongside so many wonderful people – especially […]

The impact of AI on business journalism

Ron Day, a former Bloomberg News journalist, writes for Big Think about the impact of artificial intelligence on business journalism. Day writes, “At his desk a few years ago in the Bloomberg newsroom, Damon Kovelsky sensed the change coming: automation, artificial intelligence. Bots, crawlers, borg. Would it come for his job, he wondered? To stay […]