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 […]
Daily Mirror hires Corcoran as news reporter
Sophie Corcoran has joined the Daily Mirror as a news reporter. Recently, she was at Hull Live in the same capacity. She was also a trainee reporter at Hull Daily Mail. She has also worked at Mercury press, Liverpool Echo and North Lincolnshire Council. Corcoran was also a court reporter/journalist at Reach, and served as […]
Yoon joins the Washington Post as breaking news video editor
The Washington Post has hired Julie Yoon as a breaking news video editor for the Seoul hub. She starts August 16. Yoon joins from BBC, where she has worked for close to three years, most recently as a multimedia broadcast journalist. Before that, she was a video editor at HuffPost. Yoon was also a global […]
Washington Post hires Grayson to cover the video game and esports industry
The following excerpt announcement was sent out by The Washington Post’s sports editor Matt Vita and Launcher editor Mike Hume: We are excited to announce that Nathan Grayson is joining The Washington Post to help expand our coverage of the video game and esports industry in our Launcher section. Nathan comes to us from Kotaku, […]
