WSJ real estate reporter Hudson leaves for CBRE Group

Wall Street Journal real estate reporter Kris Hudson is leaving the paper for a job handling media strategy at real estate brokerage firm CBRE Group. He starts his new job on Dec. 16. Hudson had been covering home-building companies and residential real estate, as well as real estate development in various Western states. He joined The Journal […]

LinkedIn hires Bloomberg’s Brooker

LinkedIn announced  Thursday it has hired veteran journalist Katrina Brooker from Bloomberg News Brooker will serve as a senior editor focusing on in-depth features and profiles related to the business and professional landscape, effective Dec. 7. “I’ve never met a reporter who can get people to open up like Katrina can,” said LinkedIn executive editor […]

Jaroslovsky to write tech column for NY Observer

Technology journalist Rich Jaroslovsky, who left Bloomberg News two years ago, has started writing a regular column for the New York Observer. His first column is here. “While I’ve committed a little bit of journalism here and there since ending my Bloomberg run two years ago, this marks my return to regular columning,” said Jaroslovsky in […]

Bloomberg’s Mattingly joining CNN

Bloomberg Television reporter Phil Mattingly, who departed last week, will be joining CNN, according to a memo from Terence Burke, CNN’s vice president of news gathering. Here is the memo: We are thrilled to announce that Phil Mattingly will join CNN as a general assignment correspondent based in New York at the start of the new […]

Dolan paper in St. Louis names new editor

Missouri Lawyers Media has named veteran journalist Fred Ehrlich as editor of its papers, including the Missouri Lawyers Weekly. A story on its website states, “Ehrlich, who most recently was an assistant metro editor with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, will oversee editorial content for Missouri Lawyers Weekly, the St. Louis Daily Record, The St. Louis […]

Free Press business columnist Walsh to retire

Tom Walsh, a longtime business columnist for the Detroit Free Press, plans to retire later this month, writes Bill Shea of Crain’s Detroit Business. Shea writes, “The Chicago native has been with the paper since 1982, and will wrap up his career in later December. “Walsh, 65, said his intention was to work two or three more […]

Schnick promoted to editor of Dallas Business Journal

Jeffrey Schnick, the managing editor of the Dallas Business Journal, has been promoted to editor of the American City Business Journals’ publication. He replaces Paul O’Donnell, who left to become the business editor of the Dallas Morning News. Previously, Schnick was a designer for the Knoxville (Tenn.) News Sentinel and the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel and assistant managing […]

CBC’s Lang talks about moving to Bloomberg TV

Gordon Pitts of The Globe and Mail interviewed CBC business journalist Amanda Lang, who is leaving to host a show on Bloomberg Television’s new Canadian operation. Here is an excerpt: Will it be different working for Bloomberg? It is more important to bring a critical eye to this stuff, and be heard by the business community. There […]

NYT’s Geddes to oversee Bloomberg political coverage

Bloomberg Washington bureau chief Megan Murphy sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: We have good news to announce today: John Geddes, who served as a managing editor at the New York Times until 2013, will join us later this month to oversee our US political coverage and our reporting team as we head into […]

Bloomberg’s LA bureau chief Palazzo headed to London

Bloomberg’s Kenneth Wong, its EMEA telecoms, media and tech editor, sent out the following staff change on Tuesday: Team, there is no better way to end the week than some great people news. I am thrilled to announce that in the New Year, Tony Palazzo will move from Los Angeles to London to helm our EMEA […]