Bloomberg hires Ren as a reporter
Bloomberg News has hired Henry Ren as a reporter. He will start Jan. 11. Ren has been interning on Bloomberg’s economics team for the past three months. He previously interned for Arizent, where he wrote briefs about consumer spending trends, bank and credit union earnings and mergers, and wrote two features about credit card spending […]
Fox Business hires Scimecca as associate producer
Fox Business Network has hired Kevin Scimecca as an associate producer. Scimecca has been a senior social video producer for The Hill since November 2019. He previously worked at Fox Business as a social media producer and associate social media producer and as a production assistant for “Varney & Co.” Scimecca is a graduate of Seton Hall […]
The Markup hires CNET’s Ng to cover privacy
Tech news site The Markup has hired CNET’s Alfred Ng to cover privacy. Ng is a senior reporter for CNET News. He was raised in Brooklyn and previously worked on the New York Daily News’s social media and breaking news teams. He joined CNET in September 2016. He previously worked as the associate engagement editor at […]
Bloomberg Industry hires Borak to cover tax
Bloomberg Industry Group has hired Donna Borak to cover tax issues in New York and New Jersey. She previously covered banking policy for The Wall Street Journal from the Washington news bureau, and was also a senior economics writer for CNNMoney. While at The Journal, Borak also focused on Congress and the 2016 presidential election. Previously, she was a […]
Bloomberg Law hires Hijazi to cover environment
Bloomberg Law has hired E&E News reporter Jennifer Hijazi to cover the environment. She will be a senior reporter. AT E&E News, Hijazi covers climate law. She previously worked at PBS “NewsHour” before moving on to Courthouse News, where she reported on Congress and the judiciary. She has dual masters degrees in journalism and Middle Eastern studies […]
The Bloomberg journalist who fell in love with Martin Shkreli
Stephanie Clifford writes for Elle magazine about former Bloomberg News reporter Christie Smythe, who fell for convicted pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli, who remains in prison. Clifford reports, “Says Smythe, ‘Lots of reporters were tweeting or writing stories about interactions with Martin, and I had a rich store of knowledge I hadn’t been able to use in […]
Koppisch hired as AME of Discourse
Longtime business journalist John Koppisch has been named assistant managing editor of Discourse. Discourse is a new online journal of economics, politics and society dedicated to free-market ideas from George Mason University. Koppisch had been a freelance editor for Inc. magazine earlier this year. He previously was a senior editor at Forbes magazine from March 2006 […]
Montgomery named biz editor of Dubuque paper
Jeff Montgomery has been named business editor of The Telegraph Herald, the newspaper in Dubuque, Iowa. A story on its website states, “In addition to those editing duties, Montgomery will continue to be the TH’s lead business reporter and Hinga will remain the primary education reporter. Other TH reporters also will provide some assistance in those […]
Olanoff returns to TechCrunch to work on Extra Crunch
Former TechCrunch staffer Drew Olanoff is returning to the tech news organization to work on Extra Crunch, its subscription service. Olanoff will start in early 2021 and work on community projects. He previously worked at TechCrunch in 2015 and 2016, covering Google and Twitter and focusing on augmented reality stories. In 2012 and 2013, he worked at […]
Press Herald names LaClaire to cover business
The Portland Press Herald in Maine has named Hannah LaClaire to cover business. LaClaire has been at its sister paper, The Times Herald, since 2018. LaClaire took home the Bob Drake Young Writer’s Award, which is given to a journalist with less than two years of experience, from the Maine Press Association last year. LaClaire currently covers the communities […]
