Reuters names Latin America editor, Mexico/Central America bureau chief
Kevin Krolicki, regional editor of the Americas for Reuters, sent out the following announcement on Wednesday: I am pleased to announce three appointments to editorial leadership roles in Latin America. First, I’m delighted to announce Dan Flynn has been named Latin America editor, effective immediately. He will report to me and remain based in Brazil. […]
TheStreet.com editor Murphy has resigned
Tara Murphy, the editor of TheStreet.com, has resigned from the financial news site to pursue other interests. “We loved her and are sorry to see her go, but will begin looking both internally and externally for a replacement,” said CEO David Callaway in an email to Talking Biz News. Murphy was hired as managing editor […]
New publisher named for Jacksonville Business Journal
Sara Leutzinger has been named publisher and market president of the Jacksonville Business Journal, an American City Business Journals paper. Editor Timothy Gibbons writes, “Leutzinger comes to Jacksonville after serving as a regional audience development director in the ACBJ corporate office, working with 13 markets. Before moving to that role, she was audience development director at the […]
Herald-Tribune names biz editor Sauer its executive editor
Matthew Sauer, who has been overseeing the Sarasota Herald-Tribune’s business and enterprise coverage, has been named the Florida paper’s executive editor. A story on its website states, “He replaces Bill Church, who was promoted in September to senior vice president for news at GateHouse Media, the Herald-Tribune’s parent company. “A graduate of the University of […]
Reuters appoints journalism mental health advocate
Reg Chua, executive editor of editorial operations at Reuters, sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: Colleagues, Staff safety and wellbeing are critical topics for all of us and areas of great importance to our leadership team. In addition to weekly, sometimes daily, check-ins we have on various staff deployments around the world, we are […]
Wired hires Feinberg to cover politics and culture
Wired magazine has hired Gizmodo senior reporter Ashley Feinberg to cover politics and Internet culture. Her first day is May 30 in New York. She will be a senior writer, writing across all Wired sections. John Cook, the executive editor of the special projects desk at Gizmodo, wrote an email to the staff on Tuesday that stated: It is with […]
NY Times assistant biz editor Joshi joining Politico
Politico Pro editor Marty Kady and Politico editor in chief Carrie Budoff Brown sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: Morning everyone — we have an exciting staff announcement for the Pro editing ranks. Pradnya Joshi, or P.J. Joshi, as most people know her, will join us at the end of this month as the Agriculture […]
BuzzFeed hires tech reporter Mac from Forbes
BuzzFeed tech editor John Paczkowski sent out the following announcement to the staff: I’m very excited to announce that Ryan Mac is joining the Tech Desk as a senior technology reporter. He’s going to be covering the nexus of power, wealth and technology simmering in Silicon Valley. He’s also going to keep his eye on the […]
NY Times hires cybersecurity reporter Frenkel from BuzzFeed
New York Times business editor Ellen Pollock and tech editor Pui-Wing Tam sent out the following announcement on Monday: Sheera Frenkel is joining BizDay in San Francisco to cover cybersecurity. She comes to us from BuzzFeed, where she originated the cybersecurity beat for the site in 2015. She wrote profiles of Russian hackers like Fancy […]
LeVine leaves Quartz for Axios to cover future of work
Steve LeVine, who has been Quartz’s Washington correspondent, has left the business news organization to become future editor at Axios. LeVine will be running a new vertical on the Future of Work, with a new weekly newsletter and a daily news stream around AI/Robotics, jobs and the social and geopolitical ramifications. It is launching next […]
