Fortune hires Edwards as global news director
Fortune has hired longtime business journalist Jim Edwards to be is global news director. He will start on Monday. “He’s going to elevate our digital reporting across our key business areas including tech, leadership, markets and finance, creating 24/7 coverage across Europe, us and Asia,” said Fortune editor in chief Alyson Shontell. Edwards has been editorial director for […]
CNBC ends “Last Call” after one year
CNBC is cutting “Last Call,” the outlet’s second attempt in recent months to offer business-news programming to evening audiences, reports Brian Steinberg of Variety. Steinberg writes, “The NBCUniversal-backed cable network is canceling the 7 p.m. program, which launched in March of last year as part of a broader effort to keep business-news aficionados watching CNBC later into the evening. […]
Houston Biz Journal ME Adams departs
Jonathan Adams, the managing editor of the Houston Business Journal, has left to become deputy editor of Professional Products Association International. He had also been the associate editor of the American City Business Journals publication. Prior to joining the Business Journal, Adams worked at the regional design center at Lee Enterprises as a page designer. […]
Blue Ridge Public Radio hires Myers to cover climate change and energy
Blue Ridge Public Radio has hired Katie Myers to cover climate change, energy, and more in Western North Carolina and the Blue Ridge mountain region. Myers is based in Tennessee and was a climate solutions reporting fellow at Grist from 2023 to 2024, where she focused largely on people, culture, and economies in transitioning fossil […]
Tepper joins Forbes Advisor as senior writer
Forbes Advisor has hired Taylor Tepper as a senior writer focusing on the saving and spending behavior of consumers. He has been the lead editor of the banking vertical at USA Today Blueprint. Before that, Tepper was at Forbes Advisor as a retirement writer covering retirement and investment. Tepper was also with Wirecutter where he worked as […]
Goldberg takes on biz feature role for NY Times
New York Times business editor Ellen Pollock sent out the following on Wednesday: For the last two years, while many companies have returned to work in person, readers have turned to Emma Goldberg again and again to understand the future of work. Emma stepped into a critical role reporting on the workplace when “return to office” was […]
WSJ fires Cheng after she was elected chair of Hong Kong press group
A Hong Kong-based reporter for the Wall Street Journal was terminated by the newspaper soon after she was elected as chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, reports Shibani Mahtani of The Washington Post. Mahtani reports, “Selina Cheng, the reporter, said in a news conference Wednesday that she believes the termination is related to her role as […]
Decrypt hires Napolitano to cover cryptocurrency
Decrypt Media has hired Elizabeth Napolitano to cover the cryptocurrency industry. She was at CoinDesk as U.S. court reporter for the regulations, policy and legal reporting team. She had been a data journalist at CoinDesk, where she reported on topics such as decentralized finance, centralized cryptocurrency exchanges, altcoins and Web3. She covered technology and business for NBC News […]
Guardian tech reporter Paul departing publication
Kari Paul, a West Coast technology reporter for The Guardian, is leaving the publication to go to art school in Paris. Previously, she covered tech and culture as a personal finance reporter at MarketWatch.com. Paul’s work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Quartz, Elle magazine, Cosmopolitan, VICE magazine, and others. She […]
Albuquerque Journal hires Narvaiz as biz reporter
Matthew Narvaiz, a staff writer who worked at the Albuquerque Journal for two years, is returning to work on the business desk. Narvaiz comes back to the Journal after leaving the paper in February. He worked for two years as a staff writer covering the economy and cannabis. He joins a business desk that includes […]
