How a business journalist can improve in social media
Sapna Maheshwari covers retail for BuzzFeed News, which launched a vertical for business news in May 2013. Before that, she worked at Bloomberg News from 2009 to 2013. Her first year was spent as a rotating reporter exposing her to a variety of topics including currencies, insurance and stocks. She then covered corporate credit before […]
MacDonald of Fox Business covers the market’s swings
Elizabeth MacDonald joined Fox Business Network as stocks editor in September 2007, so she has spent the past few weeks covering the markets dramatic ups and downs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 1.1 percent on Wednesday, its fifth consecutive day of losses after reaching near-record highs earlier this month. Prior to joining Fox […]
New to the job: The life of a young business reporter
Alex Dixon earned degrees in reporting and economics with a minor in creative writing from UNC-Chapel Hill in May 2014. He’s currently the only business reporter at The (Durham) Herald-Sun, a job he started in July. While a student, Dixon worked with publications including Our State Magazine, The Daily Tar Heel and founded Carolina Eats, […]
Marketwatch editor: Most stories will now be less than 400 words
Jeremy Olshan was named the editor in chief of Marketwatch.com in May, and he raised eyebrows earlier this month when he banned photos of Wall Street traders on the stock market floor from the website. Before becoming editor, Olshan was MarketWatch’s personal finance editor and had been responsible for the site’s fastest-growing coverage area and […]
CNBC’s Chu on the Alibaba IPO, covering the NFL and socks
Dominic Chu is a markets reporter for CNBC. He appears during CNBC’s Business Day programming and contributes to CNBC.com. Previously, Chu was a New York-based markets correspondent for Bloomberg Television, where he covered the stock, bond, currency and commodities markets. During that time, he interviewed some of the world’s top money managers and business executives, […]
New editor at TheStreet.com wants interesting, provocative content
Janet Guyon, who became editor in chief of TheStreet.com three months ago, has a lot of business journalism experience in her career. For the past year, she has been managing editor of Investopedia, the world’s largest site devoted to investor education. As the managing editor for FINS.com, a Dow Jones website, she managed the team […]
Meet a rising star at Fox Business Network
Jo Ling Kent, who joined Fox Business Network as a reporter in May 2013, is a rising star. She has recently been added to Maria Bartiromo’s “Opening Bell,” and she’s been covering the massive upcoming Alibaba IPO. Prior to joining Fox Business, Kent served as an on-air reporter for NBC’s owned and operated station WVIT-TV […]
How an online biz editor and a print biz editor work together
Earlier this month, the Richmond Times-Dispatch launched a redesigned business news section on its website and appointed Jacob Geiger, who had previously run its Work It site, to oversee the page. Geiger’s title is now online business editor, and he works with business editor Greg Gilligan on how the paper produces its business and financial […]
Making changes at International Business Times
Peter S. Goodman is the editor in chief of International Business Times, a position he has held for almost three months. He previously was the executive business editor and global news editor of The Huffington Post. Goodman joined the Huffington Post in the fall of 2010, after two decades in traditional newspaper journalism, most recently […]
Minard winner speaks about editing business stories
John Brecher is an executive editor for enterprise beat reporting at Bloomberg News. He works with reporters on a wide variety of stories, including long-range enterprise. Before joining Bloomberg in 2011, he worked at the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville; the Miami Herald, where he held a number of reporting and editing positions, including city editor; […]
