Miedema is leaving Reuters
Soyoung Kim, regulation editor at Reuters, sent out the following announcement on Monday afternoon: I regret to announce that Douwe Miedema is leaving Reuters at the end of July to return to Europe. He will take up a position as a spokesman and speechwriter for the European Stability Mechanism, the Luxembourg-based fund that lends money […]
Danis, Northeast U.S. editor for WSJ, leaves paper
Kristen Danis, the Northeast U.S. editor for the Wall Street Journal, has left the paper for a job at the Marshall Project. In an email to her colleagues, Danis wrote: Today is my last day at the WSJ. I owe a debt of gratitude to too many people to list here, but I remain deeply […]
Milwaukee daily names new business editor
Steve Jagler has been named business editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Paul Gores of the paper writes, “Jagler, who most recently was executive editor of BizTimes Media in Milwaukee, will oversee daily business news coverage for the newspaper and JSOnline.com. “He succeeds Gary Miller, who has retired after helping lead the Journal Sentinel’s award-winning […]
Milwaukee Biz Journal hires new manufacturing/tourism reporter
Olivia Barrow has been hired by the Milwaukee Business Journal to be its next manufacturing, travel and tourism reporter. She starts Aug. 17. Barrow had left the Dayton Business Journal, also an American City Business Journals newspaper, in early July. She had worked there for three years covering real estate and downtown and had been […]
Pacific Coast Biz Times names new ME, new tech editor
Henry Dubroff, the editor of the Pacific Coast Business Times, has hired a new managing editor and a new technology editor. Dubroff writes, “Our staff changes begin with Managing Editor Glenn Rabinowitz. A 25-year veteran of the daily newspaper industry in California and more recently Colorado, Glenn joined our team in May. He’s taken over […]
WSJ economics reporter Aeppel says goodbye with a chart
Timothy Aeppel, who covers economics and manufacturing for The Wall Street Journal, is leaving the paper. In an email to the staff, Aeppel provided the following chart, with a note that read, “This sums up what I’m thinking today. Best, Tim”: In an email to Talking Biz News, Aeppel wrote: A good friend in our […]
Sanford, editor of many WSJ A-heds, is retiring after writing obit 20 years ago
David Sanford, who in 1995 told his Wall Street Journal colleagues that he would die from AIDS in the next year, is finally retiring from the paper 20 years later. In a note to his colleagues, Sanford writes: Since the word is out, I’d like you to know that I am retiring from the wall […]
Finkle returns to Reuters after three months
Tiffany Wu, Americas desk head and deputy regional editor at Reuters, sent out the following announcement: I am pleased to announce that Jim Finkle will be returning to Reuters to cover cybersecurity. Jim left in April to run communications for a cyber startup, but quickly realized that his heart remains in journalism. Jim first joined […]
Indianapolis Biz Journal hires new reporter
Hayleigh Colombo, a Butler University graduate who interned at the Indianapolis Business Journal in 2012, has been hired as a reporter for the business newspaper. Colombo replaces Kathleen McLaughlin, an IBJ reporter since 2008, who recently moved to Oregon. She covered higher education for the Lafayette Journal and Courier for two years before joining Chalkbeat […]
How NYT’s Stanley plans to cover the richest of the rich
New York Times reporter Alessandra Stanley, who is about to begin a new beat assignment covering the wealthy, writes about how her stories will fit into the newspaper’s income inequality coverage. Stanley writes, “I covered post-Soviet Russia in the 1990s and watched as Kremlin-friendly businessmen became billionaires by carving up state assets in the process […]
