WSJ taps seven reporters to cover White House
The Wall Street Journal has named seven reporters to cover the Biden White House. They are: Alex Leary, who has been covering the White House for the Journal since 2018 and previously was with the Tampa Bay Times in its Washington bureau, covering the landscape from Capitol Hill to the White House. Gordon Lubold, who […]
Business Insider hires Griffiths to write political newsletter
Business Insider has hired Washington Post reporter Brent Griffiths to write a political newsletter. He will start at Business Insider next week. Griffiths is a researcher on Power Up, The Washington Post’s early-morning newsletter featuring news critical to the nation’s many power centers from the nation’s capital and beyond, and Finance 202, Power Post’s daily financial tip […]
Quartz promotes Diamond to chief revenue officer
Quartz has appointed Natalie Diamond to the role of chief revenue officer, responsible for the company’s advertising business. Diamond joined Quartz in 2014 and most recently served as vice president of partnerships and managed the global sales team. “From the time she arrived at Quartz, Natalie quickly distinguished herself as our most effective, tenacious, and […]
Ledbetter hired as chief content officer for Clarim Media
Longtime business journalist James Ledbetter has been hired to be chief content officer of Clarim Media, the parent company of Worth magazine and Techonomy. Ledbetter said that Clarim will continue the fintech newsletter he started last year. “The fact that the leadership at Clarim sees an opportunity to grow FIN as a business was a big reason […]
Globe and Mail moves Kerr to M&A beat
The (Toronto) Globe and Mail has moved reporter Jaren Kerr to the mergers and acquisitions beat. He will also cover corporate law. Kerr has been at the paper since October 2020, primarily covering COVID-19 issues. He previously worked at Yahoo Finance in Canada. His career began at the University of Toronto, where he served as the managing […]
Inside Health Policy hires Goldman to cover Medicaid/Medicare
Inside Health Policy has hired Maya Goldman to cover Medicaid and Medicare policy. She previously interned at The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg Environment. Goldman was also a newsroom intern for Michigan Radio. She graduated from the University of Michigan, where she studied anthropology and writing. She was also editor in chief and a senior news editor […]
Business Insider hires Ito to cover the new economy
Business Insider has hired Aki Ito as a senior correspondent covering the new economy. Ito worked for Bloomberg News for 10 years, starting in the Tokyo bureau as an intern, and then as a reporter for the economics team there. She moved to the San Francisco newsroom in 2012 to cover the Federal Reserve, and […]
“Get Wired” podcast staff contracts not renewed
The union that represents Wired staffers sent out the following announcement: In late December, the production team behind the Get WIRED podcast, which launched in July, learned that their new contracts were not being renewed and that they were no longer employed by Conde Nast. The WIRED Union is angry and deeply saddened by Conde […]
Bloomberg News hires Chen as a reporter
Bloomberg News has hired Elaine Chen as a reporter. She started this week. Chen was an intern covering finance for Bloomberg this fall. She interned for The Wall Street Journal this summer, working for WSJ Pro. She recently graduated from the University of Chicago, majoring in economics and political science. Previously, she interned at the […]
Bloomberg senior editor Joachim moves to Americas news desk
Bloomberg News senior editor David Joachim has become a senior editor on the Americas desk. He is a member of the Top team, which runs Top News on the Bloomberg terminal and the home page on Bloomberg’s digital platforms. Joachim previously was senior editor on the investigations team at Bloomberg dating back to March 2016, when […]
