Toronto Star hires two new business reporters

The Toronto Star has hired Christine Dobby and Richard Warnica to join its business news staff as reporters. Akrit Michael of The Star reports, “Dobby, who will start at the Star in January, previously worked for the Globe and Mail and has more than a decade of experience covering telecom, corporate law and other sectors. While […]

Houston Chronicle real estate reporter Sarnoff is departing

Nancy Sarnoff, who covers residential commercial real estate for the Houston Chronicle, is leaving the paper. Her last day is Dec. 18. Sarnoff is relocating to Toronto near the end of the month. She has been at the paper since 20016 and has also been host of the “Looped In” podcast since 2016. Sarnoff previously […]

Schoenberger named editor of Financial Planning

Chana Schoenberger has bene hired  as editor-in-chief of Financial Planning, an Arizent publication. Schoenberger comes to Arizent from JP Morgan Chase & Co, where she was vice president and managing editor for U.S. Wealth Management. Previously, Schoenbergerhas been an editor and reporter for Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, and Dow Jones. During a decade at […]

LA Biz Journal hires Rubio as a reporter

The Los Angeles Business Journal has hired Nat Rubio as a general assignment reporter. They previously was a digital producer for Seattle Magazine and a Dow Jones News Fund fellow for the Puget Sound Business Journal. Rubio also interned at Syracuse.com and at the San Francisco Business Times. Rubio is a graduate from the Newhouse School […]

Horti promoted to business editor at Business Insider

Samuel Horti has been promoted to business editor at Business Insider in London. He previously was an associate editor at Business Insider since June, editing stories on business, tech, finance, retail, and other topics, as well as editing Business Insider’s homepage. He also commissioned freelancers. Horti previously was a freelancer writing about politics, video games, tech […]

LA Times hires WSJ’s Malas as deputy business editor

Los Angeles Times business editor Ben Muessig made the following announcement on Wednesday: We are thrilled to announce that Nour Malas has joined the Los Angeles Times as a deputy editor for Business. In her new role, Malas will lead a team focused on income inequality and help develop strategy for the department. In more than a […]

Politico hires Aarup to cover European trade

Politico Europe has hired Sarah Anne Aarup to cover trade on the continent. Aarup has been at Borderlex Publishing in Brussels as an EU trade reporter. She previously was a fellow at MLex Market Insight reporting on Brexit and trade. She also worked at Saab as a junior policy officer. Aarup holds a bachelor’s degree from the […]

Washington Post hires De Vynck as AI/algorithms reporter

Washington Post business editor David Cho and technology editor Christina Passariello sent out the following message on Wednesday: We are excited to announce Gerrit De Vynck is joining The Washington Post as our AI and algorithms reporter, based in San Francisco. Gerrit will focus on telling the story of Google and its parent, Alphabet, and […]

Connolly departs Bloomberg for strat comm firm

Allison Connolly, a Bloomberg News staffer for the past 10 years, has left the company to join a health care strategic communications firm. Connolly is now a senior associate partner at Consilium Strategic Communications in London. She previously was an editor at Bloomberg Intelligence and a reporter and editor covering European equities in London and […]

Bloomberg makes hires, promotions on graphics team

Bloomberg News has hired two new staffers for its graphics team and promoted three others. Jane Pong is the new team leader for graphics in Hong Kong, joining Bloomberg from the Financial Times. Previously, she was graphics editor at Thomson Reuters and South China Morning Post. Jin Wu is joining the graphics team in Hong […]