Bloomberg reporter Ward moving to cover currencies and bonds

Jill Ward, a reporter for Bloomberg News covering the British economy, is moving to the markets team to cover bonds and currencies. Her new beat starts next week. Ward has been on the economics beat since April 2015 based in London, focusing on the Bank of England, trade, the U.K. and the Western European economies. […]

Business Insider hires Canal to cover entrepreneurship

Business Insider has hired Inc. magazine reporter Emily Canal to cover entrepreneurship as a senior reporter. She will start in August. Canal writes mostly about business, entrepreneurs, food, technology, politics and “Shark Tank” for Inc. She also contributed to Inc.’s weekly podcast “Inc. Uncensored.” She has been at Inc. since February 2018. She previously spent four years […]

American Lawyer’s Thomas hired by Reuters

David Thomas, a reporter at American Lawyer, has been hired by Reuters to cover the business of law. At American Lawyer, Thomas has been covering the business of law, with an emphasis on national and global law firms. He had been at ALM Media for the past year. Before that, Thomas spent four years at […]

Washington Biz Journal publisher Abrahams resigns

Peter Abrahams, market president and publisher of the Washington Business Journal since November 2018, will be departing this summer to pursue a new opportunity, reports Vandana Sinha of the Business journal. Sinha reports, “He said he can’t give more specifics yet of the new move, but he added that it will take him back and forth from […]

Business Insider hires Newsham to cover law

Jack Newsham has joined Business Insider as its new senior legal industry reporter covering Big Law and other businesses in the legal industry. Previously, Newsham was a reporter at ALM Media LLC where he covered the legal industry in New York writing about law firm management and finance among other things. He was also with […]

Silver hired as Puget Sound Biz Journal managing editor

Jon Silver has been hired as the Puget Sound Business Journal managing editor. He previously has been the managing editor of the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce for the past 15 months. Silver joined the Daily Journal of Commerce in 2000 after working at The Reader newsweekly in Omaha, Nebraska. He is a graduate of the […]

Business Insider hires Sfondeles as politics correspondent

Tina Sfondeles will be joining the Business Insider D.C. bureau as a politics correspondent covering the Joe Biden campaign. Previously, Sfondeles has been with the Chicago Sun-Times for more than 12 years, joining the company as a transportation/breaking news reporter. She then held the post of general assignment reporter/political reporter and most recently holds the […]

Reuters appoints bureau chiefs, editors in Asia

Reuters has appointed key editorial roles in bureaus across Asia on Monday: –Visuals journalist Angie Teo will lead our coverage from Indonesia, covering the world’s fourth most populous country and one that spans a distance wider than the continental United States. Teo joined Reuters in 2010 as a contractor, reporting on palm oil pricing in […]

Forbes hires Haverstock for money & markets team

Forbes has hired Eliza Haverstock to be an assistant editor on its money and markets team. She started this week. Haverstock was a financial writer covering venture capital, startups, and private equity for PitchBook in Seattle. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia where she majored in history and economics. Previously, Haverstock worked as a […]

Goldberg named business reporter at The Oregonian

Jamie Goldberg, who has been with The Oregonian for seven years working as a sports reporter, has permanently become a business reporter. Goldberg has also served as assistant editor and reporter at Mission Local, assigning and editing stories, managing the website and social media accounts and producing print or multimedia pieces weekly among other tasks. […]