Wirecutter seeks a deputy editor for personal finance

Wirecutter, the product recommendation arm of The New York Times Company, is seeking an imaginative and experienced editor to steer its personal finance vertical, Wirecutter Money. As deputy editor, you’ll be charged with conceiving and executing Wirecutter Money’s editorial strategy and dramatically growing readership. You’ll lead coverage planning and content conception with zeal and creativity, […]

Wirecutter journalists vote to join New York NewsGuild

Nearly 90 percent of editorial employees at Wirecutter, a product review and recommendation site, announced Tuesday that they have unionized with the NewsGuild of New York. The staff presented their request for voluntary recognition of their union Tuesday morning to editor-in-chief Ben Frumin and president and general manager David Perpich. In a mission statement presented […]

Why a NY Times tech reporter likes to print out documents

New York Times technology reporter Erin Griffith talked about the technology she uses for her job and why she still likes paper documents. Here is an excerpt: What tech tools do you rely on the most for work? This is least techie answer possible, but aside from email and my phone’s voice recorder, it’s probably […]

NY Times wins OPC award for business reporting

The New York Times has won the Overseas Press Club award for international reporting, known as the Malcolm Forbes and Morton Frank Award. Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe and  the Times staff won for “The Enablers.” The judges wrote, “The New York Times exposed how the brightest minds in the West are linked to some of […]

NY Times to start Krugman weekly newsletter

The New York Times is starting a weekly email newsletter featuring Paul Krugman and his writing about the economy. The newspaper’s announcement stated, “With the emailed newsletter en vogue, it only makes sense that Krugman would follow suit to lend some of his pearls of wisdom and brilliant economic analysis to readers, in a way […]

NY Times ad reporter Maheshwari moves to retail

Sapna Maheshwari, who has been covering advertising for the New York Times business news desk, is moving to the retail beat. Maheshwari wrote Friday on Twitter that she will focus on brands — online, malls, apparel chains — and how they’re navigating Amazon, as well as the new ways consumers shop. She joined the business […]

Why there’s so much hiring in biz journalism these days

Ellen Pollock, the business editor of the New York Times, talked with Roben Farzad of Full Disclosure about the demand for business journalists in today’s media world. “It’s constantly busy, and it’s really exciting” to be covering business news stories, said Pollock. Farzad asked Pollock if she was surprised by the announcement that The Wall […]

Connor Ennis takes on new role on NY Times biz desk

New York Times business editor Ellen Pollock sent out the following announcement on Thursday: Here’s a giant secret:  Connor [Ennis] has a new job. He’ll be in charge of a group of reporters that cover a variety of fun topics including retail. It is the gig affectionately known in Biz Day as the Brink job. As our deputy […]

New York Times, Netflix win Polk Awards

The New York Times won two George Polk Awards for business-related stories while Netflix won a Polk Award for a documentary on medical devices. The Polk Award for Medical Reporting went Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering and Amy Herdy for “The Bleeding Edge,” a Netflix documentary on risks from under-regulated medical devices. The Polk Award for […]

NY Times econ reporter Appelbaum is joining the editorial board

New York Times editorial page editor James Bennet, deputy editorial page editor Katie Kingsbury and op-ed editor Jim Dao sent out the following announcement on Wednesday: After nine years of deciphering and describing the economy’s tumult in the newsroom, Binyamin Appelbaum will tell us what he really thinks as he joins the Times editorial board […]