Marek hired as senior editor for Payments Dive
Longtime business journalist Lynne Marek has been hired as senior editor for Payments Dive, an Industry Dive newsletter. She was a senior reporter at Crain’s Chicago Business before leaving late last year. Marek had been with Crain’s Chicago since March 2010. Before Crain’s Chicago, Marek was the Chicago bureau chief for the National Law Journal. She also worked […]
Skillman named alternative data editor at Bloomberg
Brad Skillman has been named alternative data editor at Bloomberg News. The position is part news, part product as the news organization tries to figure out better ways to tell stories using data. Skillman has previously been a senior editor on the breaking news team, using data to help support Bloomberg’s M&A and earnings coverage. […]
Politico hires Arciga to cover tech, cybersecurity and defense legislation
Politico has hired Julia Arciga as a reporter covering legislation around technology, cybersecurity and defense. She previously was a reporter at Law360 and at The Daily Beast. Prior to joining the Beast, Arciga was first a politics editor and then editor-in-chief at MediaFile. She has also served as a news channel intern at NBC News assisting producers, editors and […]
Evans to join LA Times as health reporter
Marissa Evans will be joining The Los Angeles Times as a health reporter focusing on Southern California’s communities of color. Previously, she was a social issues reporter at The Star Tribune. Before that, Evans was a health and human services reporter at the Texas Tribune and has worked as a health policy reporter at CQ […]
Bloomberg promotes Green to senior editor
Bloomberg News has promoted Rick Green to senior editor in the new markets editing hub, which includes credit and equities and cross-assets. He will continue to work on projects with the distressed team. Green was previously a team leader for distressed company news. He was also corporate finance editor and a senior editor on the U.S. finance […]
Morning Brew hires Sternberg as executive editor
Josh Sternberg has been hired by Morning Brew as executive editor for its business-to-business publications such as Retail Brew and Marketing Brew He was previously tech editor for Adweek for three years. Sternberg has also been director of branded content at NBC News, leading a team of content producers to create journalistic-style content for brands […]
Chicago Tribune biz reporter Elejalde-Ruiz departs
Chicago Tribune business reporter Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz is leaving the newspaper for a job in public relations. Her last day was Friday. “I’m making a leap into media relations, and start a new job mid-March,” she wrote on Twitter. “To say this was an agonizing decision is an understatement.” Elejalde-Ruiz’s previous beats include workplace issues, the […]
The Information hires Olson to help launch AR/VR newsletter
The Information CEO Jessica Lessin and senior editor Nick Wingfield sent out the following on Friday: Team, We’re excited to announce that Mathew Olson will be joining The Information’s team, starting Monday, to helm our soon-to-launch newsletter on augmented and virtual reality. Mat grew up in the tech-saturated Puget Sound and studied economics at Reed College. His journalism career […]
ZDNet reporter Cimpanu hired by Record of Recorded Future to cover cybersecurity
The Record by Recorded Future has hired Catalin Cimpanu as its first dedicated reporter to build out a must-read site for cybersecurity news. He starts on Monday. A story on its website states, “Catalin has years of experience writing about information security, and has become a well-known name in the field for his constant scoops […]
Politico hires Banco to cover health care
Politico editor Carrie Budoff Brown, managing editor Sudeep Reddy and Politico Pro deputy editor Clea Benson: We’re thrilled to welcome Erin Banco to POLITICO, joining our powerhouse health care team with a focus on the pandemic response and the CDC. Erin joins us from the Daily Beast, where she’s racked up scoop after scoop over the past […]
