NBC’s Sotomayor joins The Washington Post as congressional reporter
The Washington Post has welcomed Marianna Sotomayor to its national politics team as a reporter covering Congress. Sotomayor comes from NBC News where she has been for more than 5 years, joining as a Tim Russert fellow and working as a general assignment field producer covering national political stories in the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, […]
ITN appoints Turness its new chief executive officer
Deborah Turness has been named the new chief executive officer at ITN, the UK news producer which is best known for producing ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5’s news bulletins. In her new role, Turness will succeed Anna Mallett, who was named VP of physical production at Netflix last November. Mallett steps down on Apr. […]
NBC News taps Johnstone as senior digital politics editor
NBC News has promoted Elizabeth Johnstone to the post of senior digital politics editor overseeing the network’s entire digital politics team. Johnstone succeeds Gregg Birnbaum in her new role. Previously, Johnstone was deputy politics editor, digital, at the network and has also served as a politics editor at NBC News Digital. Before that, she was […]
Wu joins NY Times as a senior product designer
Chen Wu has joined the Storylines team as a senior product designer focused on live coverage at The New York Times. Wu comes from NBC News, where she was a product UX designer working on internal editorial tools, websites and broadcast boards. Before that, she was a digital content producer/web designer at Advertising Age. She […]
NBC News, STAT, CNN Business win Eppy Awards
The following winners have been named winners in the annual EPPY Awards for digital media: Best Business Reporting on a Website with 1-million unique monthly visitors and over went to “NBC News Reporting Series: The Paycheck Protection Program” by NBC News. The finalists were Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg News. Best Business Reporting on a Website […]
Producer Haberli departs Fox Business for NBC News
Christopher Haberli, producer “Varney & Co.” at Fox Business, is leaving after more than a year to join NBC News. During his time at Fox, he wrote 15-20 scripts per day, researched, wrote and produced 4-5 guest segments per day and monitored breaking news in a control room environment among performing other tasks. Haberli has […]
NBC/MSNBC’s Ruhle appeared in promotions for bank she covered
NBC senior business correspondent and MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle appeared in promotional clip produced and sponsored by JPMorgan Chase, reports Paul Farhi of The Washington Post. Farhi reports, “Asked for comment on Tuesday, Ruhle denied any involvement with the financial company. ‘I’m not doing any work on behalf of Chase Bank,’ she said. ‘I don’t know what you are […]
NBC News hires three on biz/tech team
Christine Haughney Dare-Bryan has joined NBC News as senior editor on the business, technology and media unit overseeing tech investigations and business enterprise stories. Previously, she was assistant managing editor of special projects at Crain’s New York Business. She was also an investigative reporter working with the Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team on a project and […]
NBC News Digital seeks digital platforms editor
NBC News Digital is seeking an experienced editor to join its platforms team. The editor will curate the MSNBC homepage, write headlines for articles and video, curate the best content from MSNBC Prime, and distribute content to partners such as Apple News, Smartnews and Flipboard. You will also: Coordinate article placement and planning with MSNBC […]
Former Fox News anchor Kelly launching media company
Although Megyn Kelly is not associated with any mainstream news outlet at present, she is not leaving broadcasting, reports Variety. The former NBC News and Fox News anchor is launching an independent media company, “Devil May Care Media,” a production company that will back podcasts and other shows built around the latest news, current events, […]
