Business Insider executive editor Yarow leaves
Jay Yarow, the executive editor for Business Insider, resigned Wednesday afternoon to accept another job. His departure was announced in a short newsroom meeting. Yarow has been executive editor, overseeing the day-to-day operations, for nearly a year. Before that, he was deputy editor, running the technology vertical and overseeing 16 reporters. He was also a […]
International Biz Times names Crowley editor of UK edition
International Business Times announced Wednesday that John Crowley has been named as the new editor-in-chief for the UK edition. Crowley will oversee the UK edition starting March 29 and will be based out of IBT Media’s newly expanded Canary Wharf office. Most recently, Crowley served as digital editor EMEA at The Wall Street Journal where he […]
Dallas Morning News hires economy writer
Dallas Morning News business editor Paul O’Donnell sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: I’m extremely pleased to announce that Jill Kimiko Cowan will be joining our staff next month as our new economy reporter. Jill comes to us from the Tennessean in Nashville, where she has been writing about growth and development in Franklin, one of […]
Hughes to join Bloomberg Gadfly
Chris Hughes, former financial editor for The Independent in London, is joining Bloomberg Gadfly. Hughes had most recently been with a public relations firm, which he joined a year ago from Reuters where he had been EMEA Editor of Breakingviews since 2012. Domonic Ponsford of the Press Gazette writes, “Hughes has also previously worked at […]
TheStreet CEO DeMarse resigns
TheStreet.com chief executive officer Elisabeth DeMarse resigned from the financial news and information company on Tuesday and has been replaced on an interim basis by former Marketwatch.com founder Larry Kramer. All changes are effective immediately. The company has engaged an executive search firm to assist in identifying a full-time replacement. TheStreet’s chief business officer left […]
NY Times names three David Carr fellows
The New York Times announced Tuesday that three journalists have been awarded the David Carr Fellowship, named in honor of The Times’s late media columnist lauded for his visionary and uncompromising work. Originally conceived as a two-year fellowship for one recipient at a time, the newsroom decided to name three exceptional journalists from among 600 […]
Beucke named LA Times deputy biz editor
Dan Beucke has been hired as deputy business editor at the Los Angeles Times. Deirdre Edgar of the Times writes, “Beucke is a veteran, award-winning financial journalist who has run business sections at three different newspapers: the Orange County Register, New York Newsday and the San Jose Mercury News. Most recently, he was the Register’s assistant managing […]
NY Times public editor to write Washington Post media column
Liz Seymour, executive features editor at the Washington Post, send out the following announcement: I am thrilled to tell you that Margaret Sullivan, the public editor of the New York Times, will be joining The Post later this year as our media columnist. Margaret is a superb journalist who has witnessed the dramatic changes in […]
CQ hires Merrion, formerly of Crain’s
Paul Merrion, formerly the Washington bureau chief for Crain Communications and Crain’s Chicago Business, has joined CQ Roll Call as a data privacy reporter. He’ll be focusing on the legislative and regulatory aspects of data privacy and cyber-security at the federal, state and international level. He is laying the groundwork for a new data privacy daily report that […]
Silicon Valley Biz Journal hires new tech writer
Jennifer Elias, a freelance writer who has written for multiple publications, has been hired by the Silicon Valley Business Journal as a technology reporter. In the past three years, her reporting has appeared in places like Silicon Valley Business Journal, The Hollywood Reporter, Forbes and Fast Company. Before tech journalism, she briefly wrote about fashion, […]
