Wired hires McKenna as a senior writer

Wired magazine has hired Maryn McKenna as a senior writer for health, covering all aspects of public health, global health, medicine and disease. She previously has been working part-time at the magazine covering COVID-19 stories. As a newspaper reporter, she worked for 10 years at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she was the only U.S. journalist assigned to […]

Forbes reporter Rosenbaum leaving magazine

Forbes magazine health care reporter Leah Rosenbaum is leaving the news organization at the end of the week. “I’m leaving for a few reasons, but the biggest is burnout from covering the pandemic daily for the last 18 months,” she wrote on Twitter. Rosenbaum has been at Forbes since January 2019, first as an assistant editor for […]

Bloomberg’s Porzecanski moves to U.S. team leader for legal news

Katia Pozecanski, who has been covering hedge funds at Bloomberg News for the past five years, is moving to become U.S. team leader for legal news. She starts her new job on Aug. 3. Before hedge funds, Porzecanski covered breaking news and enterprise stories about Latin American debt and fx markets, focusing on Argentina, Venezuela, […]

CNBC Make It hires Deitch as a success editor

Cameron Albert-Deitch, a reporter at Inc. magazine, has joined CNBC Make It as success editor. Make It is CNBC’s personal finance website. Albert-Deitch had been at the magazine since October 2015 before leaving in July. Most recently, he was covering the Best Workplaces beat, diving deep into everything that makes a private company a great […]

Adweek hires Canton as reporter

Adweek has hired Rafael Canton as a breaking news reporter covering brand marketing. Canton has been freelancing for the past seven years. His work has appeared in VICE, Complex, SNY and Bleacher Report. He has also worked for Glamour, Sneaker Report and Complex Media. Canton is a University of Massachusetts-Amherst graduate.

Hobbs joining WSJ’s investigations team

Tawnell Hobbs, a senior special writer at The Wall Street Journal, is joining the newspaper’s investigations team. She has been at The Journal for five years. Hobbs has been covering national K-12 education. She has spent more than 17 years covering education issues, ranging from student testing to financial disasters. A native of Ohio, but […]

Law360 reporter Shanes departing for law school

Law360 reporter Alexis Shanes, who covers employment discrimination, is leaving the news operation at the end of the week. Shanes planes to attend Georgetown University’s School of Law. She has been at Law360 in Washington for the past year. She previously worked for Gannett in New York. Shanes is a graduate of Oklahoma State University and […]

Reuters correspondent Rochabrun moving to Peru

Marcelo Rochabrun, a correspondent for Reuters in Brazil, is moving to Peru to cover that country and Latin American mining. He has been in Sao Paulo for the past three years covering Uber, Embraer, airlines and automakers in Latin America. Rochabrun previously was a stringer for the New York Times in Peru and also worked […]

Financial Times names Smith its U.S. economics editor

Colby Smith has been named U.S. economics editor at the Financial Times. She previously covered U.S. rates, foreign exchange rates and Latin America for the FT’s markets team in New York. She has also written for Alphaville. Prior to the FT, she worked at the Economist and Bloomberg, where she was a producer for “What’d […]

Nicholson departs Reach for HuffPost

Kate Nicholson has joined HuffPost UK as a senior trends reporter. Recently, she was a news reporter at Reach. She was also a news reporter at The Wokingham Paper and a trainee journalist at News Associates. Nicholson has also worked at The Independent, Guardian News and Media, and Penguin Random House. She was also editor-in-chief […]