MarketWatch adds Albrecht to personal finance team
MarketWatch.com personal finance editor Quentin Fottrell sent out the following staff announcement on Thursday: Hi MarketWatchers, I’d like to introduce you all to Leslie Albrecht, the latest addition to the Personal Finance team. Leslie has both a colorful and rock solid background in journalism — the old-fashioned kind. She started out as a city reporter for the […]
CNNMoney hires Sanicola for MoneyStream
Personal (career) news: In July I will join the @CNNMoney team as an associate writer. I’m excited & grateful to CNN for the opportunity! — Laura Sanicola (@LauraSanicola) May 31, 2017 Laura Sanicola has been hired by CNNMoney as an associate writer for MoneyStream, their business news app. She starts July 10. Sanicola is a recent graduate […]
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. […]
