NY Times names Casselmen its chief economics correspondent
Ben Casselman has been named chief economics correspondent at The New York Times. He has been at the publication since August 2017. Casselman previously worked at FiveThirtyEight, where he was a senior editor and chief economics writer. He’s written about income inequality, education, criminal justice and the last presidential election. He helped lead the site’s “Gun […]
NY Times hires Rudoren to oversee DealBook newsletter
New York Times executive editor Joe Kahn sent out the following on Tuesday: We are thrilled to announce that Jodi Rudoren is coming back to The Times. Jodi will rejoin our newsroom as editorial director of Newsletters, where she will oversee our portfolio of dozens of newsletters that together reach many millions of people every day. This […]
NY Times taps O’Brien to cover labor
New York Times business editor Ellen Pollock sent out the following on Monday: We’re delighted to announce that Rebecca Davis O’Brien, fresh from 22 scoop-filled months on Politics, has joined the economics team on the Business desk to cover the national labor scene. Rebecca’s time on the campaign was spent largely, and memorably for readers, covering the […]
NY Times hires Romm to cover economic policy
New York Times business editor Ellen Pollock sent out the following on Monday: We are thrilled to announce that Tony Romm will be joining The Times as our new economic policy correspondent. This is a familiar role for Tony, who covered economic policy at The Washington Post, where he broke numerous stories during both the […]
NY Times seeks a Wall Street reporter
The New York Times is seeking a reporter to cover Wall Street for our finance team. You will break news, report medium term features, and produce accountability journalism. A focus of the beat will be takeovers, initial public offerings, and other deals but this reporter will also lean on sourcing inside Wall Street’s biggest banks […]
CNN hires Liu to cover China business
CNN has hired John Liu to be its China business reporter in Hong Kong. He has been at The New York Times since 2021. Previously, he worked as a freelance journalist covering Taiwan and Myanmar, including Myanmar’s 2021 military coup, for various international media outlets. Liu started as a reporter for the now defunct Myanmar Times based […]
NY Times seeks a climate policy reporter
The Climate Desk at the New York Times is looking for a high-energy and collaborative journalist to join the team of reporters covering climate and environmental policy and politics. It’s a year of great upheaval in Washington and around the country, and we are looking for a reporter who can help readers understand what’s changing, […]
Columnist Krugman on why he left NY Times
New York Times economics columnist Paul Krugman says he left the paper because it was ending his newsletter, reports Charles Kaiser of Columbia Journalism Review. Kaiser writes, “Kingsbury said it was ‘patently untrue’ that Krugman’s newsletter had been killed, although it stopped appearing last October. She emailed him on September 30 to urge him to stay at the paper, […]
NY Times hires Smith to cover the Fed
The New York Times has hired Colby Smith to be its lead reporter covering the Federal Reserve and to write about the U.S. economy. She previously was the U.S. economics editor at the Financial Times. She had been with the FT for more than six years and previously was U.S. capital markets correspondent and a writer for FT […]
NY Times hires Yahoo Finance’s Caval
The New York Times has hired Valentina Caval from Yahoo Finance to be a senior producer. She starts Jan. 6. At Yahoo Finance, she covered key business news events, including the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic, the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Tesla’s going public, and the rise and fall of Sam Bankman Fried. In her […]
