Layoffs occurring at International Business Times
An undetermined number of staffers are losing their jobs at the International Business Times, reports Noah Kulwin of Recode. Kulwin writes, “IBT is owned by IBT Media, which bought legacy print magazine Newsweek back in 2013. Sources tell Re/code that they don’t know if the job cuts will affect other IBT Media brands, which include the medical […]
The Wrap adds two journalists to staff
The Wrap announced Thursday the hiring of two journalists, Scott Collins and Meriah Doty, to expand its TV and film industry coverage. Collins joins The Wrap as TV editor, leading the site’s coverage of the television industry. Collins spent the last 12 years as a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, covering the TV […]
Fortune senior editors Easton, Sellers leaving to start own firm
Fortune senior editors Nina Easton and Pattie Sellers are leaving the business magazine to start their own content company. Valentina Zarya of Fortune writes, “Sellers and Easton are both veteran journalists and longtime employees of Fortune, where they were, until very recently, senior editors. On Thursday, they announced that they will be starting a new chapter […]
Fortune’s Elmer-Dewitt on striking out on his own
Fortune writer Philip Elmer-Dewitt was interviewed by “Full Disclosure” host Roben Farzad about leaving Time Inc. after 36 years to start a website covering Apple dubbed Apple 3.0. “I should have done this years ago, frankly,” said Elmer-Dewitt, 66. “Other people have proved that you can make a living writing about Apple on your own. You don’t […]
DeCloet returns to run Globe and Mail’s business coverage
David Walmsley, editor in chief of the Toronto Globe and Mail, sent out the following announcement to the staff on Wednesday: To you all, As events in Brussels make painfully clear, the global story this year is Europe. Because of that, I have asked Paul Waldie, one of my leadership team, to return to the […]
De Luna named president of TheStreet.com
Interim chief executive officer Larry Kramer of TheStreet.com sent out the following to the staff on Tuesday: Later today we are announcing the appointment of Margaret de Luna as President of TheStreet.com, which is the newly assembled Consumer Division of TheStreet Inc. Margaret spent more than a decade at MarketWatch where she directed product development […]
AP’s global markets editor gets new job
Jonathan Fahey, the AP’s global markets editor, has been named global health editor for The Associated Press, overseeing a team of journalists to cover medicine, public health, the health care business and consumer health issues. An AP story states, “The appointment was announced Monday by Marjorie Miller, AP’s vice president of global news and enterprise.”‘We […]
Audi named chief of Western U.S. news for WSJ
Wall Street Journal U.S. news editor Glenn Hall sent out the following announcement to the staff: I’m very excited to announce that Tammy Audi is the new Western Chief for U.S. News, leading our reporting teams in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Dallas. Tammy has long been an essential player on our Western front, serving […]
New head of Bloomberg Government named
Bloomberg Government announced Monday that Josh Eastright, formerly head of government affairs business and 17-year veteran of Bloomberg LP, has been named the new head of Bloomberg Government. He succeeds Don Baptiste, who is moving to an opportunity outside of the Washington, D.C., area. Eastright has been a member of Bloomberg Government’s executive leadership team […]
San Francisco Biz Times reporter leaves for BANG
Annie Sciacca, a reporter at the San Francisco Business Times for the past three years, has left the American City Business Journals paper to work for the dailies in the Bay area. Sciacca had been covering food, hospitality, manufacturing and retail industries for the Business Times. Her new job is on the BANG metro desk, covering […]
