Bort departs Business Insider for new opportunity

Julie Bort, an editor at large for Business Insider’s technology team, has left for a new opportunity. She had been at the news organization for 12 years and had previously been chief technology correspondent and a senior editor for its venture capital and startups coverage. Bort previously worked at Network World for 13 years. She […]

Politico hires Dahl as mobility reporter in Europe

Politico Europe has hired Jordyn Dahl to be its mobility reporter, covering cars and electronic vehicles. She was at LinkedIn as a senior news editor at LinkedIn before leaving in October 2023. She had been at LinkedIn since 2019, starting out as its small business reporter. She also built two beats — sustainability/climate and entrepreneurship — from the ground up. […]

Bloomberg hires Ghosh as editor on tech team

Bloomberg News has hired Shona Ghosh to be a senior editor in London on its Europe, Middle East and Africa tech team. She previously was deputy executive editor at Business Insider’s UK bureau. In 2019, she was awarded Tech Journalist of the Year at the UK Tech Awards. She was previously technology editor at UK advertising trade […]

Molla, formerly of Vox, hired by Sherwood

Former Vox senior correspondent Rani Molla has been hired by Sherwood, the media outlet of retail trading platform Robinhood launching this spring. Molla has covered business and technology for more than a decade, including at Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal. She specializes in making information easily accessible through charts and graphics — like this distillation of the […]

Fortune hires Leake to cover health and wellness

Fortune magazine has hired Lindsey Leake to cover health and wellness. She’s also a senior editor on the alumni editorial board of The Science Writer, the digital magazine of Johns Hopkins University’s science writing program. Leake previously worked at USA Today newspapers in Florida. Leake is a member of the Association of Health Care Journalists, National […]

Reuters hires Furneaux as investigative reporter

Reuters has hired Rosa Furneaux as a reporter on its investigations team. Furneaux has been at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism specializing in global health issues, with particular focus on access to health care. She received the Amnesty International Gaby Rado Award for New Journalist for her coverage of Covid-19 vaccine inequity. In 2022 she was named […]

New hires and promotion on NPR’s national desk

In a note to newsroom staff, Ammad Omar, chief national editor, and Catherine Laidlaw, deputy national desk editor, made the following announcements: We’re excited to share news about some key hires on the National Desk, to round out our management team. This week, Alfredo Carbajal joined us as a Supervising Editor.  He will be the lead editor […]

CoinDesk’s Casey no longer in full-time role

CoinDesk chief content officer Michael Casey no longer has a full-time role as part of a reorganization but is in discussions to stay on board with CoinDesk in some other capacity, report Sam Kessler and Danny Nelson of CoinDesk. He joined the cryptocurrency news organization in September 2017. Previously, Casey was the CEO of Streambed Media, […]

McKenzie-Sutter among BNN Bloomberg layoffs

Holly McKenzie-Sutter, editor of the BNN Bloomberg website, was among the layoffs Thursday orchestrated by Bell Media. She managed the team of journalists who produced stories and content for the site. McKenzie-Sutter assigned stories, performed copy editing and worked on the overall web package. McKenzie-Sutter had been at BNN Bloomberg in Toronto as a reporter […]

Western bureau chief Weber among BNN Bloomberg layoffs

Tara Weber, the Calgary-based western bureau chief for BNN Bloomberg, was among the layoffs on Thursday as part of cuts by Bell Media. She joined the BNN Bloomberg team in August of 2015. Weber covered the energy industry and any issues of interest from Western Canada. She completed an MBA in Global Energy Management and […]