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 […]
NY Times hires Washington Post’s Gold
New York Times Washington bureau chief Dick Stevenson sent out the following on Monday: This is an exciting one. Matea Gold, who as a managing editor, national editor and political investigations editor at The Washington Post has helped produce a steady stream of agenda-setting news reporting and high-impact accountability journalism, is joining The Times as Washington editor. […]
Economics columnist Krugman is retiring from NY Times
New York Times opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury sent out the following on Friday: I want to take you back to Jan. 2, 2000, a day when Y2K was in the rearview mirror and the dot-com bubble burst was just around the corner, when the Dow stood at a mighty 11,500 and a New York Times Opinion columnist […]
NY Times taps Stevenson as DC bureau chief
New York Times executive editor Joe Kahn sent out the following on Friday: A January 2010 front page analysis of Barack Obama’s State of the Union address noted that the president ended his address with a plaintive appeal to transcend partisanship. The Times reporter succinctly summed up the urgent challenge: “Is it possible to embrace complexity in […]
NY Times DC bureau chief Bumilller returning to reporting
New York Times executive editor Joe Kahn sent out the following on Thursday: Without a doubt, the biggest political story of the last decade has been the election of Donald Trump in 2016 and the disruption to the political system that followed. Numerous desks around the newsroom have contributed to our superb coverage of Trump’s administration and […]
Tankersley becomes Berlin bureau chief at NY Times
Jim Tankersley has been named Berlin bureau chief for the New York Times. He has been based in its Washington bureau covering economic policy. Tankersley will move to Germany in early 2025. He joined The Times in 2017 to cover taxes and economic policy in the Washington bureau. He then moved to the White House team […]
