Wired hires two, names Streshinsky its executive editor

Wired editor in chief Nicholas Thompson announced Wednesday that Jahna Berry has been hired as head of content operations, Tom Simonite has been hired as senior writer, and Maria Streshinsky has been promoted from features editor to executive editor. “I am excited to announce these new hires and promotions,” said Thompson in a statement. “We’ve got Maria figuring out how to […]

Mashable hires Nuñez as deputy tech editor

Mashable announced Wednesday that it has hired Michael Nuñez as its deputy technology editor. Nuñez previously served as Gizmodo’s technology editor. Nuñez will oversee the daily coverage on Mashable’s tech channel, one of the company’s core coverage areas, which has seen its audience more than double over the past year. He will also be a […]

NY Times buyout aimed at cutting editing staff

New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet sent out the following announcement to the staff on Wednesday: To the Staff, Every day The New York Times produces the best edited news report in the world. It is a marvel of ambition, discipline and accuracy. But as the news business changes, most of us have come […]

TheStreet’s Feuerstein leaving for STAT

Adam Feuerstein, who has covered biotech companies for TheStreet.com for most of the past 15 years, resigned on Monday to accept a job at STAT. He will also cover biotech for STAT, which is owned by the Boston Globe and covers health care news, as a national biotech columnist. He starts June 19. “As for […]

Forbes moves Drange to Trump business beat

Forbes tech reporter Matt Drange has been moved to a beat covering the businesses of President Donald Trump. He will be focused on Trump’s business dealings — not politics — and the money behind the president. Drange has been in the San Francisco bureau, covering tech and money and power in Silicon Valley. He expects […]

NPR hires Gogoi as its business editor

NPR News executive editor Edith Chapin shared the following with the staff on Tuesday morning: I am extremely pleased to introduce Pallavi Gogoi as NPR’s new Chief Business Editor and head of the Business Desk. Pallavi brings twenty years of outstanding business reporting and editing experience to her new role. She is currently a Senior […]

Recode hires Schleifer as senior editor

Recode editor in chief Dan Frommer sent out the following announcement: Team Recode, I’m excited to announce that Teddy Schleifer will be joining our team in a new Senior Editor role this summer, based in Vox Media’s San Francisco office. Teddy’s focus will be to aggressively follow the money in Silicon Valley, covering capital, power, and influence. […]

VentureBeat hires artificial intelligence reporter

Blair Hanley Frank has joined VentureBeat as a staff writer to cover artificial intelligence, big data, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise technologies. Blaise Zerega of VentureBeat writes, “Blair comes to VentureBeat from IDG News Service where he served as a U.S. correspondent and provided breaking news and analysis of the public cloud, productivity and operating systems businesses. […]

CNBC hires Zamost as senior investigative producer

CNBC senior vice president and editor in chief Nikhil Deogun sent out the following announcement on Friday: At the start of the year, I told many of you that one of our priorities for 2017 is to focus more on investigative journalism. To that end, we are pleased to announce that Scott Zamost, an award-winning […]

Gizmodo’s Narisetti explains how to have a diverse newsroom

Raju Narisetti is the chief executive officer of Gizmodo Media Group, which operates websites Gizmodo, Deadspin, Jezebel, Jalopnik, Kotaku and Lifehacker and is owned by the Univision. He was formerly senior vice president of strategy at News Corp., the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and MarketWatch.com. Narisetti also held multiple administrative positions at […]