Oregonian to slash pay due to pandemic’s financial impact
The Oregonian Media Group, which operates Oregon’s top newspaper, Oregonian, has announced that it will be cutting pays of employees for the rest of 2020 and mandating unpaid furloughs over the next several months. “Every business is challenged right now,” said John Maher, president of Oregonian Media Group. “And we’re no exception.” The move comes […]
Layoffs begin at The Hollywood Reporter by parent company
Valence Media, parent company of The Hollywood Reporter, has laid off 20 employees, including executive vice president and group publisher Lynne Segall, reports Yahoo Finance. In addition, film critic Todd McCarthy, senior editor Benjamin Svetkey, senior film editor Piya Sinha-Roy, real estate and city editor Peter Kiefer and senior events editor Ramona Saviss were also […]
WSJ’s Germano to join FT as sports biz correspondent
Sara Germano will join The Financial Times in New York as the company’s new U.S. sports business correspondent. She will start in June. Recently, she was with the Wall Street Journal working as a staff reporter covering corporate news in Germany with a focus on tech, media, retail, telecommunications, and real estate. Before that, she […]
Seeking Alpha hires Bloomberg’s Olesen as VP of news as part of new strategy
Market news website SeekingAlpha.com has hired Brad Olesen from Bloomberg News as its vice president of news. He will manage, among other things, the Breaking News short-form news product, Seeking Alpha’s flagship newsletter Wall Street Breakfast, and Notable Calls, an exclusive idea-generation product for subscribers to Seeking Alpha Premium. Olesen will also be tasked with improving […]
Social media editor Savage among Fortune’s layoffs
Emily Savage, social media editor at Fortune magazine, was among the 35 staffers laid off on Tuesday, she confirmed on Twitter. Savage had been with the magazine as a full-time staffer working remotely from California since September. She had been Fortune’s voice and posting strategy based on short and long-term data analysis and editorial goals. […]
FT hires Borrelli to be Milan correspondent
The Financial Times has hired Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli to be its correspondent in Milan. She started this week. Borrelli was formerly an Italy correspondent for Politico Europe, where she worked for slightly more than four years in London and Rome. She previously worked for CNBC and for Citywire in London.
Gizmodo editor Bourdet to leave at the end of the month
Kelly Bourdet, the editor of technology news site Gizmodo, announced Wednesday that she will leave the site at the end of the month. She has been editor in chief for slightly more than three years. “I‘m proud of all that Gizmodo has accomplished. We’ve broken so much impactful news, celebrated the strange, questioned prevailing narratives, […]
FT’s Sardana joins Business Insider as markets reporter
Saloni Sardana, former features writer at the Financial Times, has joined Business Insider as the company’s new markets reporter. Before joining the FT where she covered pensions, insurance, regulation, investments and mortgage features, Sardana was a private banker international reporter for Verdict. There, she wrote breaking news stories and pitched ideas among other tasks. Sardana […]
Coombes departs NerdWallet to become personal finance coach
Personal finance journalist Andrea Coombes has left NerdWallet to become a personal finance coach. Coombes is now working one-on-one with consumers at the SF LGBT Center to help them reach their money goals. She had joined NerdWallet in 2017 and covered investing and retirement. Before that, Coombes had spent a decade at MarketWatch.com, including two […]
CNBC names Slaman its San Francisco bureau chief
CNBC senior vice president Dan Colarusso and managing editor Lacy O’Toole sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: We’re happy to announce Katie Slaman is moving to become CNBC’s San Francisco bureau chief. As technology companies and the cultures around them become an even bigger part of the global markets, Katie is the ideal person […]
