Going The Distance by covering older businesses

Wailin Wong is the editor of The Distance, an online magazine and podcast that spotlight longevity in business by publishing monthly in-depth profiles of businesses that are at least 25 years old. Wong previously covered consumer technology and local start-ups for the Chicago Tribune and started her career at Dow Jones Newswires, reporting on Latin […]

The business journalist who is also a beauty queen

Julia La Roche, a senior reporter at Business Insider, was crowned Miss New York United States in March 2014. Last week, she crowned her successor. La Roche competed at the Miss United States pageant in Washington D.C. during the Fourth of July holiday. She joined Business Insider in August 2011 after working at CNBC.com. La […]

Bolton celebrates one year covering alternative investments on Fox

Deirdre Bolton joined Fox Business Network as an anchor in February 2014 and is the host of “Risk and Reward with Deirdre Bolton,” which started one year ago this week and reports on alternative investment strategies. Prior to joining Fox Business, Bolton served as an anchor at Bloomberg Television, most recently as host of “Money […]

Covering exchange-traded fund news

Drew Voros is the editor-in chief for ETF.com, where he supervises ETF.com, monthly magazine ETF Report and HardAssetsInvestor.com. Voros has more than 25 years of experience in journalism, including serving as the business editor for the Oakland Tribune and sister papers of the Bay Area News Group for 10 years, as well as covering public […]

Schneider of Reuters parses the Fed beat

Howard Schneider joined Reuters in April 2014 to help lead its Federal Reserve Board coverage. Before that, he was covering international economics for the Washington Post for the past four years with stories ranging from trade and the euro zone crisis to the International Monetary Fund and U.S.-China economic relations. He has extensive experience in […]

The art of covering cyber security as a business story

Jordan Robertson joined Bloomberg three years ago and is one of a team of reporters at Bloomberg News dedicated to covering the cyber security beat. Based in Washington, Robertson spent 10 years on the West Coast covering technology for the San Francisco Chronicle and The Associated Press before heading east. He earned a master’s degree […]

Finding and cultivating a niche in business journalism

Andrew Westney’s journalism career has grown more focused through the years. After attending graduate school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for journalism, Westney took a job at the Arkansas Democrat Gazette. From there he moved to Charlotte to work for Sports Business Daily. Now, he covers a variety of beats for […]

AP biz editor Gibbs talks about her job, business journalism

Longtime business journalist Lisa Gibbs became the Associated Press business editor in August, overseeing more than 65 business reporters and editors worldwide. Since that time, she has been traveling around the world to familiarize herself with AP’s business coverage. Before joining the AP, Gibbs was at Money magazine, where she was a three-time finalist for […]

Q&A: Entrepreneurs want inspiration from Entrepreneur

Ray Hennessey is the editorial director for Entrepreneur Media, overseeing all editorial for the digital team of the monthly business magazine in New York. Before that, he was director of business news of Fox Business. Before joining Fox in 2007, Hennessey was the editor of SmartMoney.com, where he was responsible for all the financial editorial […]

TheStreet CEO: Business journalism will be a growth area forever

Elisabeth DeMarse, chairman and CEO of the financial news operation TheStreet Inc., was named Thursday to the board of directors of AppNexus, the world’s largest independent ad tech company. Prior to joining TheStreet, DeMarse successfully led a variety of U.S. and international financial information and technology businesses, often guiding them through important phases of company […]