Indy Star biz reporter hired by Chicago Tribune
John Russell, who covers real estate, architecture, urban planning, new projects and old eyesores for the Indianapolis Star, has been hired by the Chicago Tribune to cover health care. He will be covering the business of life sciences, such as pharmaceutical companies, biotech companies, hospitals, insurers, and healthcare policy. “I can’t think of any beat […]
ACBJ chief content officer to become Seattle biz newspaper publisher
Emory Thomas Jr., the chief content officer of American City Business Journals, has been named the publisher of ACBJ’s Seattle newspaper, the Puget Sound Business Journal. Rob Smith of the paper writes, “Thomas has been chief content officer at American City Business Journals — parent company of the Puget Sound Business Journal — for the […]
Bloomberg Pursuits names new publisher
Bloomberg’s group advertising director Ali Salama has been named Bloomberg Pursuits publisher, effective immediately. Salama replaces Emma Winchurch-Beale, who has taken on a new role for Bloomberg Media as client lead overseeing all advertising sales categories in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Salama, who joined Bloomberg in 2014 as group advertising director, is an […]
Pulitzer winner Waldholz joins Inside Climate News
Michael Waldholz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, has joined the staff of Inside Climate News as senior editor of enterprise and investigations. A story on its website states, “Mr. Waldholz comes to ICN following six years as managing editor at Bloomberg News/Businessweek. He previously spent 25 years at the Wall Street Journal as a writer, editor […]
CNNMoney hires breaking news reporter
CNNMoney executive editor Lex Haris sent out the following staff hire on Thursday: CNNMoney has a new breaking news reporter: Ahiza Garacia joins on Monday, June 29. Ahiza comes to us from Talking Points Memo, where she writes…A LOT… on media and politics. She also knows sports, and got her Master’s from the Syracuse Newhouse School […]
Business Insider hires deputy editor from Bloomberg
Business Insider has hired Mohammed Hadi from Bloomberg to be a deputy editor. Hadi had been the deals team leader at Bloomberg for the past two years and had been at Bloomberg since April 2011. At Business Insider, he’ll be overseeing its finance, retail and transportation teams and report to executive editor Jay Yarow. “We’re […]
Tongue in cheek: Business journalists are overpaid
Christopher Carosa writes a response to an article written by Jason Zweig of The Wall Street Journal titled, “Why You’re Paying Too Much in Advisory Fees.” Carosa writes, “The typical financial writer charges absurdly high fees to produce editorial content — content that is often mediocre in terms of practical real-world application. “According to a […]
Reuters hires Freed to cover banking
TheStreet.com reporter Dan Freed has been hired by Reuters to cover banking. He will start his new job on July 6. He will cover Bank of America and Wells Fargo. In an email to Talking Biz News, Freed said he will “miss being included in Gregg Greenberg’s Follies shorts but very excited to be in […]
Tampa Tribune lays off business editor for second time in five years
The Tampa Tribune newspaper has laid off its business editor this week, the second time the paper has done so in the past five years. Margie Plunkett had been the business editor since March 2013. Back in December 2011, the paper also laid off business editor Dale Hokrein. Plunkett had been a business reporter and […]
NYT’s Stanley to cover economic inequality
New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet announced that Alessandra Stanley is returning to reporting to cover economic inequality in America: After a dozen remarkable years as chief television critic, Alessandra Stanley has decided to return to reporting. As part of The Times’s deepening focus on economic inequality in America, she will be creating a […]
