Florida retail reporter moving to health and medicine beat

Justine Griffin, the retail reporter at the Tampa Bay Times for the past two years, is moving to the health and medicine beat for the paper. Griffin has been on the retail beat for slightly more than two years. Breaking news! I’m now covering health & medicine for the @TB_Times. Got a story tip? Email […]

Deadline’s Lieberman leaving to become professor

Deadline Hollywood executive editor David Lieberman is leaving the entertainment industry news website to become a professor. Lieberman is leaving Deadline on Sept. 22 to become an associate professor in the graduate media management program at The New School. “It’s been an exhilarating ride in the 6 1/2 years since I moved from USA Today,” […]

WSJ hires Kruger to cover bond market

The Wall Street Journal has hired longtime business journalist Daniel Kruger to cover the bond market. He starts Monday. Kruger has been a contributor to Forbes for the past 10 months, writing about bonds and currencies. Before that, Kruger spent more than 10 years at Bloomberg News writing about the U.S. government bond market, central […]

CNBC.com adds six editorial staffers

Digital senior vice president and executive editor Jay Yarow sent out the following staff announcements on Thursday morning: I am pleased to announce some recent additions to the CNBC Digital group. Jeff McCracken has hired a number of folks to his growing team: Spencer Kimball joins CNBC.com as a News Editor on the breaking news team. He has […]

NY Times hires Solomon as economics editor

New York Times Washington bureau chief Elisabeth Bumiller and business editor Ellen Pollock sent out the following announcement on Thursday: We’re very happy to announce that Deborah Solomon, a former editor and reporter at The Wall Street Journal, will be the economics editor in the Washington Bureau. Deborah is currently a director at Brunswick Group […]

Politico brings back Calderone to cover media

Politico editor in chief Carrie Budoff Brown and editor at large Peter Canellos sent out the following announcement: Hi all – We’re excited to announce that Michael Calderone, one of the best known and most respected media writers in the business, is joining POLITICO – rejoining, we should note – to be senior media writer and author of our […]

Third top editor leaves NJBiz for new publication

The deputy managing editor of NJBiz has become the third top editor to leave the business news publication in the past month for the same startup. Anjalee Khemlani had been named the deputy ME at NJBiz in January. She announced on Twitter on Wednesday that she’s left NJBiz for ROI-NJ, which plans to begin publishing next […]

CNBC hires Hirsch of Reuters to cover retail/consumer news

Lauren Hirsch has been hired by CNBC Digital to cover retail and consumer news. Also, I’m excited to announce I now work @cnbc covering consumer/retail — Lauren Hirsch (@LaurenSHirsch) September 6, 2017 For the last two years, Hirsch has been at Reuters covering initial public offerings and consumer/retail mergers and acquisitions based in New York. Since April […]

Money’s Clark joining EWA as assistant director

Money magazine staffer Kim Clark has been hired as an assistant director of the Education Writers Association. Clark, a longtime national journalist most recently with Money Magazine, will play a leading role in directing EWA programming on education beyond high school. “We are thrilled to have a journalist of Kim’s caliber joining our staff,” said […]

CNBC.com hires new tech reporter

Sara Salinas has joined CNBC Digital to cover tech news. Her first day is Wednesday. Salinas interned this past summer on the Boston Globe metro desk. Before that, she interned for the Indianapolis Star as a Pulliam Fellow and for the Baltimore Business Journal. She graduated in May from UNC-Chapel Hill as a journalism major. […]