Forbes promotes staffers to senior editors, associate editors
Forbes chief content officer Randall Lane sent out the following to his staff on Friday: Team, Hope everyone had a healthy and interesting week. Our production continues to amaze, as we approach near-record level amounts of articles and audience on pretty much a daily basis. It’s of course a paradox of journalism – history’s first-draft […]
Last named acting head of live journalism of WSJ
Elena Cherney, the editor of news features and special projects at The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following announcement on Thursday: I’m pleased to announce that Kim Last will serve as acting head of Live Journalism, following Nikki Waller’s move to the corporate team. Kim joined the Journal two years ago as deputy editor […]
Dow Jones CEO Lewis: I’m proud we’ve promoted female colleagues
Dow Jones & Co. CEO William Lewis sent the following note to the staff about his departure: Hello, I’m sad to let you know that, after six years as your CEO, it is time for me to move on. This is an extraordinary time to be sharing the news — in the midst of a […]
Digiday’s Modern Retail appoints Weissman as editor
Cale Guthrie Weissman has been named the new editor at Digiday’s Modern Retail where he will be leading the editorial content team to greater heights. In his new role, he will be working with reporters Anna Hensel and Gabriela Barkho. Previously, Weissman was working as a freelance reporter covering technology, entrepreneurship, culture, science, and media. […]
Billboard executive editor hired by tech company to launch publication
Tech company influence.co announced Wednesday that Nick Catucci, the former executive editor of Billboard Magazine, has joined the company. Catucci will be the company’s first editor in chief overseeing influence.co’s new media publication, nofilter, which will launch later this month. Nofilter will cover influencers and creators. “I’ve spent more than a decade covering the music […]
Task joins Seeking Alpha as VP of contributor content
Longtime business journalist Aaron Task has joined investment news site SeekingAlpha.com as vice president of contributor content. In October, Seeking Alpha started a podcast channel “Alpha Trader” featuring Task as one of its hosts. He most recently was editor in chief of Experian. Task had been editor in chief of Fortune.com until November 2016. Task […]
Washington Post hires AP’s Lerman to cover breaking tech news
Washington Post business editor David Cho, deputy business editor Zachary Goldfarb and technology editor Christina Passariello sent out the following announcement on Wednesday: We are excited to announce that Rachel Lerman will be The Washington Post’s breaking news technology reporter in San Francisco. Rachel joins us from the Associated Press, where she covered technology with […]
Bankrate.com hires two mortgage reporters
Personal finance site Bankrate.com has hired two new mortgage reporters — senior reporter Jeff Ostrowski and reporter Javier SImon. Ostrowski has been a business reporter at the Palm Beach Post since 1999. He covered real estate, the economy and public companies, including Fortune 500 firms NextEra Energy, Carrier Global and Office Depot. He reported and […]
Dow Jones CEO Lewis is leaving the company
Will Lewis is stepping down as chief executive of Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com and Barron’s, reports Anna Nicolau and Mark DiStefano of the Financial Times. Nicolau and DiStefano report, “The British media executive is leaving ‘amicably’ from the company, according to people with knowledge of the decision. […]
FT names Agini its new sports biz reporter
Samuel Agini has been named by the Financial Times as the publication’s new sports business reporter. Previously, he was with Financial News where he held the post of trading and technology correspondent. Before that, he was a reporter with Dow Jones where he covered market structure, derivatives, clearing, regulation, fixed income and equities. Agini has […]
