San Antonio biz reporter headed to El Paso

Diego Mendoza-Moyers, a business reporter covering energy, manufacturing and labor for the San Antonio Express-News, is leaving the paper. He has accepted a job at El Paso Matters, a nonprofit news organization. A native of El Paso, he has previously interned for the Albany Times Union, Las Vegas Review-Journal and Arizona Republic. Mendoza-Moyers graduated from […]

Bloomberg hires Waldron in Brazil

Bloomberg News has hired Travis Waldron to be an editor on its politics and economy desk in Brasilia. He has been a HuffPost enterprise politics reporter based in Washington. He covered general politics and culture in the United States and Brazil, and also writes about issues at the intersection of sports, politics and culture. He was at […]

Reuters names six to climate and sustainable business teams

Reuters climate and environment editor Katy Daigle sent the following message to staff about six appointments to the climate and sustainable business teams: As Reuters continues to expand its climate and environment coverage, we are thrilled to announce six new hires across the company. These journalists – David Stanway, Ali Withers, Isla Binnie, Tommy Reggiori […]

Schanemen departing Marijuana Business Daily

Bart Schaneman, an editor at Marijuana Business Daily, is leaving the publication. On Monday, he will be helping launch OR Daily, a website focused on business news for the outdoor industry. Schaneman has worked for Marijuana Business Daily and Marijuana Business Magazine since 2016. Prior to that he was the editor in chief of the […]

Reid retires from The Economist

Longtime staffer Michael Reid has retired from The Economist. He was a senior editor and wrote its Bello column on Latin America and a writer-at-large on the region. From 2016 to 2021 he was additionally its Spain correspondent. From 1999 until 2013 he was The Economist’s Americas Editor responsible for coverage of Latin America, the Caribbean and […]

TheStreet hires Lee as a writer and editor

TheStreet.com has hired longtime business journalist Thomas Lee as a writer and editor. He previously was Business of Business senior staff writer and a corporate energy reporter for Argus Media. Lee was the business columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle before leaving in late 2017. He then went into freelancing and ghostwriting. Before joining the Chronicle, Lee was the […]

Reston swaps CNN for Washington Post

The following was sent out from The Washington Post’s national editor Matea Gold, deputy national editor Philip Rucker, senior politics editor Dan Eggen and deputy politics editor for campaigns Sean Sullivan: We are excited to announce that Maeve Reston is joining The Post as a national political reporter, drawing from her extensive experience covering five […]

Doyle to cover suburbs, rural communities for Houston startup

Nonprofit journalism startup the Houston Landing has hired Céilí Doyle as a reporter to cover the city’s suburbs and rural communities. Recently, Doyle reported on rural issues in Ohio, ranging from health care, education, transportation and COVID-19 for The Columbus Dispatch as a member of the 2020-2023 Report for America Corps. Doyle has a B.A. […]

NY Amsterdam News hires Selemon as science reporter

Helina Selemon has joined the New York Amsterdam News’ investigative unit The Blacklight as a science reporter. She is an adjunct lecturer at Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Previously, Selemon was an audience development lead at The Associated Press, where she worked with the Health and Science team to boost visibility, usage […]

Indiana TV station hires McQueen as digital reporter

Joe McQueen has joined WANE-TV Ch. 15, a CBS affiliate in Fort Wayne, Ind., as a digital reporter. Previously, he was a reporter at KPC Media Group Inc. McQueen worked as an education reporter at The Pueblo Chieftain, a daily paper in Colorado. He also contributed to The Statesman, Stony Brook University’s student-run newspaper. He […]