Insider hires Berg of Forbes as media editor
Madeline Berg of Forbes has been hired by Business Insider as media editor. She starts next week. Berg has been covering the intersection of Hollywood and money — everything from media moguls to the highest-paid actors to YouTube stars. When her reporting isn’t taking her to Hollywood restaurants and Atlanta’s movie lots, she’s writing about the […]
Bloomberg’s Ross named executive editor at News Statesman
Bloomberg News journalist Tim Ross has been named executive editor of politics at New Statesman. He has been at Bloomberg for the past five years. Ross has been part of Bloomberg’s UK government team and has 20 years experience reporting UK politics and current affairs, Ross previously worked at the Telegraph Media Group where he was senior […]
Gizmodo hires Provenzano as a staff writer
Tech news site Gizmodo has hired Brianna Provenzano as a staff writer. She will cover streaming platforms and TikTok’s cultural footprint. Provenzano has been a part-time night editor writing, editing and reporting weekly tech and politics blogs. She previously worked at Refinery29 and Pacific Standard Magazine. She was also a politics reporter for Mic from August 2015 […]
Boykin named editor in chief of San Antonio Business Journal
Sam Boykin, currently managing editor the Sacramento Business Journal, will be the next editor-in-chief for the San Antonio Business Journal. A story on the Business Journal website states, “He will begin leading the newsroom in San Antonio on Aug. 16. “‘Sam has experience as an international journalist and has the small-town roots key in forging […]
Lawler returns to TechCrunch to focus on fintech
Ryan Lawler, who worked at TechCrunch from 2012 to 2015, is returning to the tech news site to focus on fintech. He will be working primarily with the ExtraCrunch team. Lawler has been head of content at Samsung NEXT for the past four years. He was also a partner in the venture capital firm 500 […]
Digital reporter/producer Clifford departs CNBC
CNBC.com reporter Tyler Clifford has left the news organization. His last day was July 30. “I’ve had the great privilege to learn and write alongside great people covering Wall Street, business and investing news,” he wrote on Twitter. Clifford had been at CNBC since October 2018. He first arrived at CNBC as a news associate and then “Mad […]
FT’s Foley joins Nikkei Asia as business editor
Stephen Foley has been named business editor at Nikkei Asia, the English-language version of Nikkei. He previously was deputy U.S. news editor at the Financial Times. Nikkei owns the Financial Times. Foley was a U.S. investment correspondent for the Financial Times, covering the asset management industry, hedge funds and institutional and retail investment issues. Previously, […]
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, […]
