Reuters reporter Borter joins national affairs team
Reuters reporter Gabriella Borter has joined its national affairs team and is based in Washington. Borter will be covering a mix of public health, politics and national breaking news. She previously was a general news reporter based in New York since September 2019. Borter interned for Reuters while a student at Yale University, where she majored in English.
Axios hires ex-Kotaku editor in chief Totilo
Axios has hired Stephen Totilo, the former editor in chief of the gaming industry site Kotaku, to launch a gaming newsletter. The newsletter is expected to launch this spring. Totilo started at Axios on Monday. Totilo had been Kotaku’s editor in chief since 2012 and had been with the publication since 2009. Kotaku launched in 2004. […]
Tech journalist Schiesel joins XBox
Tech journalist Seth Schiesel has joined Microsoft as director of executive communications for Xbox. Schiesel joined The New York Times in 1996 as business reporter, before moving on to a role as technology feature writer in 2003. He specialized in video games for the newspaper’s Culture section from 2005. Prior to joining The New York Times, Schiesel […]
BNNBloomberg hires Goodfield as a digital producer
BNNBloomberg in Canada has hired Kayla Goodfield as a digital producer. She will start next week. Goodfield is a Multi-Platform Writer for CTV News Toronto, who has been covering breaking local news across the GTA since 2016. With a special interest in crime and courts, Goodfield has covered several high-profile cases, including the murders of billionaire Toronto […]
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 […]
