WSJ’s Asia biz editor to also manage Hong Kong coverage
Andrew Dowell, the editor of Asia Pacific at The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following announcement: Asia Business Editor Neil Western has taken on the added responsibility of managing our coverage of Hong Kong. He is ideally suited to this role — a longtime resident of the city who came for a short visit […]
CNBC.com personal finance writer Anderson is leaving
Tom Anderson, a personal finance writer for CNBC.com, is leaving the business news website. Anderson is becoming the editor-in-chief of RealClearLife, the lifestyle vertical of RealClear Media. His last day at CNBC is Wednesday, July 5. He starts at RealClearLife on July 10. “I’m grateful to Jim Pavia, CNBC’s money editor, who brought me back for […]
BuzzFeed biz editor Gara to run new opinion section
Tom Gara, the business editor of BuzzFeed since December 2014, has been tapped to run the website’s new opinion section. He will start his new position on July 10. Gara joined BuzzFeed in September 2014. He had been editor of the Journal’s Corporate Intelligence blog for the previous two years. He has also worked at The […]
MLex hires Merrion from CQ Roll Call
Longtime Washington business reporter Paul Merrion has been hired by MLEx to help it launch a new service. In an email Friday to friends, Merrion wrote: CQ Roll Call. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed covering the data privacy and cybersecurity beat as well as working the great folks here at CQ over the last 16 months or […]
Bloomberg reporter Leising moving to LA
Matt Leising, a reporter at Bloomberg News in New York for more than a decade, is moving to the organization’s Los Angeles bureau. The move is part of Bloomberg’s expansion of its West Coast operations. Leising will continue to cover market structure and how blockchain and distributed ledger technology may be applied to finance. He also covers […]
Harloff named AP’s global markets editor
AP business editor Lisa Gibbs sent out the following announcement on Thursday: BIZ staffers, some exciting staffing news to share with you all: Paul Harloff will become AP’s global markets editor, starting next week (July 5). In addition to daily news and enterprise about stocks, bonds and commodities, this team covers banking, investing and also produces the Money […]
Rosenberg named publisher of Pittsburgh Business Times
Evan Rosenberg has been hired as the new publisher of the Pittsburgh Business Times, an American City Business Journals paper. Jennifer Beahm of the Business Times writes, “Rosenberg joins PBT after having spent nearly 20 years at CBS-owned television stations KDKA and WPCW, most recently as local sales manager and director of sports marketing. Currently, he is […]
Honolulu Civil Beat hires Yerton as senior business reporter
Stewart Yerton, a longtime business reporter who had left journalism for law school, has been hired by Honolulu Civil Beat as its senior business reporter. Yerton has written about the U.S. treasury bond market, the business of big law firms, controversies surrounding the world’s largest gold mine on the island of New Guinea and corruption […]
Former CNNMoney exec editor Haris resigns after Russia story
Former CNNMoney executive editor Lex Haris resigned on Monday in the wake of a retracted story from the investigative unit that he now runs. Haris had taken over the investigative team back in January. He had been with CNNMoney since 2001, and had been the site’s managing editor from 2007 to 2014. Among his many accomplishments was […]
Bloomberg hires JP Morgan’s Flanders to run economics unit
Bloomberg editor in chief John Micklethwait issued the following memo Monday announcing the hiring of former BBC economics editor Stephanie Flanders to lead a new unit called Bloomberg Economics. She starts in October and will be based in London. Micklethwait wrote: Economics sits at the heart of so much of what we do in Editorial […]
