Chief business officer of TheStreet leaves company
Erwin Eichmann, the chief business officer of TheStreet.com, has left the company to pursue other interests, according to a regulatory filing on Tuesday by the financial news company. As part of his departure, Eichmann and the company have agreed that he will work as a consultant for TheStreet for the first three months of 2016 […]
The Information names Peers its ME
Martin Peers has been named managing editor of The Information, a subscription tech news site. Before joining The Information in October 2014, Peers was media and marketing bureau chief at the Wall Street Journal, overseeing the paper’s coverage of the media and entertainment industries. Before that, he was deputy editor of Heard on the Street, the […]
NY Times hires deputy biz editor for London
Prashant Rao has been hired as deputy business editor for Europe for The New York Times. He will start next month and will be based in London. He replaces Patrick Scott, who left in August. For the past year, Rao has been an editor in Hong Kong for Agence France-Presse. He previously was the Baghdad bureau chief […]
Stern leaving Wall Street Journal
Gabriella Stern, editor of strategic initiatives and a deputy managing editor at The Wall Street Journal, is leaving the business newspaper at the end of the year. Her new job is with a nonprofit organization. She had been with The Journal for nearly 25 years. Journal editor Gerard Baker, who toasted her in the newsroom on Monday, […]
Money’s Rosato hired by Consumer Reports
Donna Rosato, a senior writer at Money magazine, has been hired by Consumer Reports as a senior editor. As a senior writer at Money, Rosato wrote about the financial challenges facing retirees today and strategies for career advancement. She has also appeared on TV to discuss personal finance issues on “CBS This Morning,” “The Today Show,” […]
Biz reporter leaving Dallas Morning News
Sheryl Jean, a reporter on the Dallas Morning News business desk, is leaving the paper at the end of the year. On LinkedIn, Jean writes: My last day will be Jan. 1, 2016. I’m moving to northern California to start a new chapter in my life. I hope to continue writing/editing as a freelancer, but […]
NYTimes biz desk adds Grynbaum to cover TV
New York Times business editor Dean Murphy and deputy business editor Peter Lattman sent out the following announcement: More good news for our media team. Michael Grynbaum, who has been covering Mayor de Blasio as our City Hall bureau chief, is moving to BizDay to write about television, teaming with John Koblin and Emily Steel in chronicling […]
BostInno names new general manager
Kyle Gross has been named the new general manager of BostInno, the tech news site in Boston owned by American City Business Journals. Gross writes, “My favorite thing about BostInno’s mission is connecting people through our events, giving you resources on who to know in Boston and helping new entrants navigate our tech scene. I like to think of BostInno as […]
Katherine Snyder leaving Bloomberg
Katherine Snyder, deputy senior executive editor for beat reporting overseeing breaking news across all beats, is leaving the company to spend more time raising her children before finding a new challenge. Prior to her current role, she built Bloomberg’s global deals team, running coverage of mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, bankruptcies and restructuring and assembled an all-star […]
Marketwatch founder named TheStreet chairman
Larry Kramer, who founded what is now MarketWatch.com in the 1990s, was named chairman of the board of financial news company TheStreet.com on Thursday. Kramer, a director of TheStreet since October 2015, founded and led CBS MarketWatch. Most recently, he was the president and publisher of USA Today where he transformed an iconic newspaper from a […]
