Jaffe departing MarketWatch, but column likely to remain

MarketWatch.com senior columnist Charles Jaffe was among those leaving the website early next year as part of a reorganization, but the Dow Jones & Co. property will likely continue to run his column. Jaffe’s column — which is self-syndicated — will continue without interruption and is likely to remain at MarketWatch. His radio show/podcast — “MoneyLife with […]

Reuters names Robinson regional editor in charge of EMEA coverage

Reuters editor in chief Steve Adler sent out the following announcement on Monday: Colleagues, I’m pleased to share with you today that Simon Robinson has been named regional editor for EMEA, effective January 1. He will report to me. In this role, Simon will provide leadership and editorial direction across the news file for our largest region. […]

Quartz adds three editorial staffers

Quartz editor in chief Kevin Delaney sent out the following announcement on Monday: Hello Quartz— I’m happy to announce three new members of our editorial team. April Siese joins Quartz today as an app writer, based in New Orleans. She will have a special focus on developing our weekend app writing. April comes to us from the […]

Bloomberg hires Nocera from NY Times

Longtime business journalist Joe Nocera of the New York Times is joining Bloomberg, reports Ken Kurson of the New York Observer. Kurson writes, “According to a source familiar with the specifics of the deal, Nocera’s gig is wide-ranging and will touch a variety of products within Bloomberg, whose BusinessWeek title just abruptly fired editor in chief Ellen Pollock a year […]

LaVallee named deputy bureau chief at WSJ for corporate

Marcelo Prince, corporate bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following announcement: Folks, I’m happy to announce that Andrew LaVallee, deputy bureau chief at GNY, will be joining our ever expanding buro. I’ve known Andrew since he started at the Journal back in 2006 as a tech reporter and look forward to working with […]

Crain’s Detroit hires Livengood from Detroit News

Chad Livengood, the Lansing bureau chief for The Detroit News, will join Crain’s Detroit Business on Dec. 26 to launch a new beat designed to cover the multifaceted story of Detroit rising. A story on its website states, “Livengood, 34, has covered the governor, state agencies, the Legislature and presidential politics for Michigan’s second-largest paper […]

Edmonton Journal biz columnist leaves paper

Gary Lamphier, the business columnist of the Edmonton Journal, is leaving the newspaper after 14 years. Lamphier writes, “While the Oilers strung together four Stanley Cup wins, we spent the 1980s in Toronto — where our children were born — and the 1990s in Vancouver, where I covered business for various newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal […]

Crain’s Chicago Business editorial cartoonist says goodbye

Roger Schillerstrom‘s first cartoon appeared in Crain’s Chicago Business in 1982. Seven years later, Crain Communications elevated him to full-time staff cartoonist. He is the only person to hold that position in the parent company’s 100-year history. Though Schillerstrom will continue working as a freelance cartoonist, this is his last cartoon for Crain’s. Over his 34-year tenure […]

WSJ shuffles DC jobs, creates business and government team

Wall Street Journal executive Washington editor Gerald Seib and DC bureau chief Paul Beckett sent out the following announcement on Friday: To the bureau: You know as well as we do that the pace of news around here hasn’t slackened in the least since the election. In fact, it has picked up for everybody in the bureau, and we’d […]

Borchardt leaves Women’s Wear Daily, now freelancing

Women’s Wear Daily financial reporter Debra Borchardt has left the news organization and is now freelancing. Borchardt had joining the publication in July 2015. Before Women’s Wear Daily, she had been a TheStreet.com senior producer and markets analyst. She left The Street in 2014 to do research for Stansberry & Associates. She worked at The […]