Bloomberg reporter Smith joins Modern Retail

Allison Smith

Modern Retail has hired Allison Smith to cover e-commerce platforms. Smith previously was a credit reporter at Bloomberg News. She covered corporate finance, including investment-grade debt, bank debt and credit graders. Smith interned at Crain’s Detroit Business. She also worked at book publisher W.W. Norton as an assistant media editor. She holds a bachelor’s degree […]

Muir moves to economics beat at FT

Martha Muir

Financial Times reporter Martha Muir has moved to the economics beat in Washington. She has been covering personal finance and investment. Before joining the FT, she was a reporter at Trading Risk, a Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc title, where she covered the Insurance Linked Securities and reinsurance markets. In addition, Muir has interned at the Financial Times and the Daily […]

Politico hires Marquette to cover transportation

Chris Marquette

Politico has hired Roll Call reporter Chris Marquette to cover transportation. He has been at Roll Call since July 2017 as a congressional accountability reporter. He covered Jan. 6 select committee, ethics investigations, the House Republican Conference and the U.S. Capitol Police. Marquette was the runner-up for the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress […]

Adweek’s Lundstrom adds retail media to beat

Kathryn Lundstrom

Kathryn Lundstrom is now covering retail media in addition to sustainability for Adweek. She has been covering the intersection of climate and ad/marketing news, along with assigning stories and helping with the sustainability print issue, launching this spring. Lundstrom previously served as a sustainability reporter, and before that, as a senior news writer and breaking […]

Politico hires Yarrow to cover food and agriculture

Grace Yarrow

Politico has hired Grace Yarrow as a food and agriculture reporter. She has been interning for Politico since January. Yarrow was a reporting fellow at The Teas Tribune in 2023, based in Washington, D.C. She was previously a business reporting intern at the Minneapolis Star Tribune and interned at The Hill and the Press Democrat in Santa […]

NY Times hires WSJ’s Forsyth as DC investigations editor

Jennifer Forsyth

New York Times Washington bureau chief Elisabeth Bumiller and Washington enterprise editor Dick Stevenson sent out the following on Monday: We’re thrilled to announce that Jennifer Forsyth, a longtime editor at The Wall Street Journal, will be joining The Times as investigations editor in Washington. Jennifer spent more than 18 years at The Journal, most recently […]

Gaffney becomes lead writer for STAT News’ “Morning Rounds” newsletter

Theresa Gaffney

Theresa Gaffney is now the lead writer for the “Morning Rounds” newsletter at STAT News. She has been a reporter and podcast producer at STAT. She covers health care, new research, and public policy, with a particular interest in mental health, gender-affirming care, and LGBTQ+ patient communities. She also has been writing the “Morning Rounds” newsletter on Mondays […]

New Arkansas Business editor: We won’t dawdle

Hunter Field, the new editor in chief of Arkansas Business, writes about his plans for the publication. Field writes, “The team at Arkansas Business is the journalistic equivalent of a sports car. I know because I’ve been a reader, but it’s also all I’ve heard from other journalists since I took the job. “George Waldon has forgotten […]

Cooney moves to cardiovascular beat at STAT News

Elizabeth Cooney

STAT News reporter Elizabeth Cooney is now cover the cardiovascular beat for the news organization. Cooney has been the author of the “Morning Rounds” newsletter. She joined STAT in 2017 and has worked as a general assignment reporter and STAT+ editor. Prior to that, she was the Boston Globe’s inaugural White Coat Notes blogger, before moving on […]

Departing Milwaukee Biz Journal editor Kass says thank you

Departing Milwaukee Business Journal editor Mark Kass thanked his colleagues and the business community in his farewell column. Kass writes, “We may have evolved over the years sending you news in many different ways, whether through our traditional newspaper, our active website, social media or at one of our many important events, but our readers’ support has […]