National Geographic hires Trivedi as senior science editor

National Geographic has hired Bijal Trivedi as its senior science editor. Trivedi most recently served as a science and technology editor at The Conversation. Over the course of her more-than-two-decade career, Trivedi has written and edited award-winning stories about human health, biology and biomedical research for outlets including Scientific American, Science, Nature, Wired, The Economist and The Boston Globe, as well as an acclaimed […]

CoStar hires Cheng to cover New York real estate

Real estate news service CoStar has hired reporter Andria Cheng to cover the New York market. She started on Monday. Cheng has been a senior contributor to Forbes and a freelancer for the past three years. Before Forbes, she was at eMarketer to help it start a retail news product. Cheng left MarketWatch and The Wall Street […]

Pulitzer winner Pearlstein ends Washington Post column

Economics columnist Steven Pearlstein, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2008 columns that explained the financial crisis, is ending his column at The Washington Post. Pearlstein writes, “In recent years, I’ve sometimes heard myself saying the same things to editors or readers who write in with a column suggestion. I find myself gravitating to the […]

Keane departs FT to join forces with Garcia

Aimee Keane of the Financial Times has left the news operation. Keane is joining with former colleague Cardiff Garcia to start an audio production company. “We’ll have a show a little like the one we used to make together, and we have some ideas that will sound completely new,” she wrote on Twitter. “We’ll also be taking on […]

Gizmodo news editor Menegus laid off

Tech site Gizmodo has laid off news editor Bryan Menegus. “My colleagues were some of the best, smartest people on their beats and I’ll miss them dearly,” he wrote on Twitter. Menegus joined Gizmodo in February 2016 covering internet culture, became a senior reporter focusing on labor and most recently switched to editing. He previously […]

VC reporter Bernard is departing The Information

Zoe Bernard, a reporter at The Information covering venture capital, is leaving the tech news organization. Bernard plans to freelance. She previously covered startups and tech culture at Business Insider before joining the Information in early 2019. She was based in the New York bureau. Bernard had been with Business Insider since October 2017, first as an […]

The Information reporter Matican is departing for marketing job

Ross Matican, a reporter at tech news site The Information, is leaving for a marketing job. Matican is joining Carta Inc. as its first-ever corporate affairs research analyst. He joined The Information in June 2020 covering tech and markets. Matican was previously a reporting intern for The Information in San Francisco. He recently graduated from Carleton College and […]

Stone promoted to reporter at Law360

Law350 has promoted Rachel Stone to a reporter covering employment at the news operation. She previously was a news apprentice and a news assistant at Law360, where she has worked for the past two years. Stone also worked at The New Republic as a fact checker and a researcher. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University […]

Jiménez joins NY Times Express desk

Jesus Jiménez, a staff writer at The Dallas Morning News, is joining The New York Times Express desk. His new role begins Mar. 15. Jimenez previously worked freelance writing features, articles and op-eds for publications including Bleacher Report, Thrillist, Longreads, The Dallas Morning News, the Dallas Observer, D Magazine, Al Dia and more. He also […]

Pirolo joins React News as finance editor

Alessia Pirolo is now a finance editor at React News covering distressed debt, loan origination and refinancing in the commercial real estate industry. Previously, Pirolo was at Debtwire where she held the post of head of non-performing loans coverage. Before that, she was senior reporter, commercial real estate. She has also worked as a freelance […]