NPR hires FT’s Cardiff Garcia for “Planet Money”
Neal Carruth, NPR’s general manager of podcasting, sent out the following announcement on Thursday: We are thrilled to announce that Cardiff Garcia will be joining NPR’s Planet Money team for a new project to be revealed soon. Cardiff’s first day will be Monday, November 13th. Cardiff is the US editor of FT Alphaville, the flagship economics […]
WSJ hires Al-Muslim from Newsday
Aisha Al-Muslim, a business reporter at Newsday, has been hired as a reporter at The Wall Street Journal. Her last day at Newsday is Thursday. She starts at The Journal on Monday on the real-time desk covering breaking business news. Al-Muslim is a Pulitzer Prize finalist who has been covering retail and small businesses on […]
CNBC hires Sherman, D’Onfro for tech team
Jay Yarow, senior vice president and executive editor of CNBC Digital, sent out the following announcement on Thursday: Very exciting news, team. We are adding two fantastic reporters to our already amazing technology team — Alex Sherman and Jillian D’Onfro. Alex is a killer reporter from Bloomberg, who consistently breaks big news. Jillian is also […]
WSJ names editors to oversee workflow changes
Wall Street Journal executive editor Matt Murray sent out the following to the staff on Thursday: Dear All, Now that we have announced our fantastic leadership team, I want to share news on the next stages of our workflow revamp. Improving how we work will be an important task in the months ahead. There is no issue […]
Reporter/producer Ordonez leaves CNBC
Silvana Ordonez, a producer and reporter at CNBC, has left the news organization after five years. On LinkedIn, Ordonez wrote, “I am so lucky to have worked and learned from some of the smartest people in the industry, and for the friends and key mentors I made there.” Since May 2014, Ordonez has been a business […]
Bloomberg promotes Alloway and Nagi to executive editor
Bloomberg editor in chief John Micklethwait announced a few promotions in the newsroom. Tracy Alloway and Chris Nagi have been promoted to executive editors and report directly to Chris Collins, senior executive editor for breaking news and markets. Alloway continues to manage cross-asset markets coverage and will take over responsibility for the TOP Live events […]
Mannes hired by AARP The Magazine to oversee personal finance
George Mannes, who left Money magazine earlier this year, has been hired by AARP The Magazine to oversee its personal finance coverage. Mannes started in his new job as a senior editor this week. Mannes had been at Money since March 2005 as a senior editor. He edited Money magazine’s First section and feature stories […]
WSJ’s Troianovski hired as Washington Post Moscow bureau chief
Washington Post foreign editor Douglas Jehl, deputy foreign editor Mary Beth Sheridan and assignment editor Will Englund sent out the following announcement on Wednesday: We’re thrilled to announce that Anton Troianovski of the Wall Street Journal will become The Post’s Moscow bureau chief. Anton has distinguished himself over a nine-year career at the Journal that […]
Washington Post hires Vox’s Stein for financial news desk
Washington Post national economy and business editor David Cho and deputy business editor Zachary Goldfarb sent out the following announcement on Wednesday: We are excited to announce that Jeff Stein will join Wonkblog as a reporter covering the biggest policy debates of the day. Jeff currently works at Vox, where he has been a prolific […]
Ex-WSJ staffer: I quit because of gender pay gap
Elva Ramirez writes about why she quit The Wall Street Journal after working there for 10 years. Ramirez writes, “Last August, I celebrated working ten years at The Wall Street Journal. I also quit, because I was making about $13,000 less than some of my male colleagues. “I was one of three live show producers […]
