“Bloomberg Surveillance” heads to Bloomberg Television mornings
Bloomberg Radio and Television global head Al Mayers sent out the following to the staff on Thursday: Colleagues, In the midst of these uncertain times, what has become clearer than ever is the value of working together and how well our team excels at it. Our reliance on one another to navigate the uncharted waters of this […]
NYT’s Dealbook seeks Wall Street reporter
The New York Times is seeking a Wall Street reporter for the DealBook team, our flagship business and policy newsletter with a growing audience of influential decision makers around the world. Candidates should be experienced reporters with deep sourcing and knowledge of Wall Street, familiar with both the people and institutions that make New York’s […]
Business Insider seeks markets editor in London
Business Insider is looking for a full-time editor to lead the markets team in London. This editor will manage a team of reporters and run the London desk for our Markets Insider site, a global real-time markets data destination. We are looking for an experienced editor and global markets junkie who has impeccable attention to […]
WSJ’s “Heard on the Street” hires new staffer, promotes another
Spencer Jakab, editor of the “Heard on the Street” column of The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following announcement on Wednesday: There have been two notable changes recently at Heard on the Street, the Journal’s financial and economic analysis column — a promotion and a new face. Nathaniel Taplin will fill the vacant role […]
Reuters appoints Howcroft as markets correspondent
After working as an editorial trainee at Reuters, Elizabeth Howcroft will be joining the company full-time as an EMEA breaking finance and markets news correspondent. Previously, she was a researcher at BBC. Before that, Howcroft was with Bloomberg where she worked as a news intern for 10 weeks. She also completed the Bloomberg Market Concepts […]
Superlatives used to describe the stock market
John Detrixhe and John Keefe of Quartz examine the most common words used to describe the stock market drop this week. Detrixhe and Keefe write, “That’s where ‘biggest’ comes in. It has been by far the most favored superlative in news stories about the stock market, followed at some distance by the words ‘largest’ and ‘worst.’ “Quartz compiled […]
MarketWatch.com seeks an automation editor
MarketWatch.com is looking to further explore automation opportunities to personalize the content experience; To provide readers with world-class information about their interests, their stocks, and their portfolio. In pursuit of these efforts we are looking for an Automation Editor who will help drive automation and machine learning efforts across the MarketWatch platform, as well as […]
Verlaine moves to WSJ’s financial markets team
Wall Street Journal reporter Julia Verlaine is now covering financial markets in New York. She previously covered financial services and regulation in the European Union for the Journal’s bureau in Brussels. Verlaine also reported on the investment banking sector in London for Bloomberg News. Before starting a career in journalism, she worked at Barclays covering macro hedge […]
WSJ hires Hirtenstein as markets reporter in London
The Wall Street Journal has hired Anna Hirtenstein as a markets reporter in London. She was previously a reporter at Bloomberg in London, where she covered clean energy and sustainability in Europe, the Middle East and Africa Hirtenstein was also an M&A banker at Greentech Capital Advisors in Zurich and a correspondent with a focus […]
Reuters seeks a commodities reporter based in New York
Reuters is seeking an enterprising, driven journalist to join the Reuters New York commodities team to cover sugar, coffee and cocoa physical and futures markets. We are looking for a reporter who is as comfortable digging for stories on changes in international trade flows and price moves in opaque markets as they are writing big-picture stories about changes in consumer […]