Dawkins moves to retail beat at Insider

Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins is now covering retail for Insider as a senior reporter. She has been covering entrepreneurship since November 2019. Dawkins also worked as associate distribution editor for site video at Insider. She interned at Papercut Magazine and at EdTech Times. Dawkins is a graduate of Emerson College.

Business Insider reporter Tobin departs

Business Insider retail reporter Ben Tobin has left the news organization. Tobin had been with the publication for a year and covered Wal-Mart and other large retailers. Tobin has been a business reporter at the Louisville Courier-Journal. While at the Courier-Journal, he was part of a reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize for its work […]

Kansas City Star seeks restaurant and retail reporter

The Kansas City Star, winner of nine Pulitzer Prizes, is seeking a creative, high-energy journalist to become our restaurant and retail reporter. Kansas City loves to eat. It’s at the center of our “going out” plans, a huge part of our entertainment. And we have a remarkable award-winning restaurant scene that offers some of the […]

Post and Courier seek retail and real estate reporter

The Post and Courier, winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and a Pulitzer finalist six times since 2011, is looking for a retail/real estate business reporter in our Columbia newsroom. South Carolina’s capital city is attracting major development, including a new electric vehicle maker, and features a robust business community boosted by […]

The Messenger seeks a retail editor

The Messenger is looking for an experienced editor to run its coverage of retailers, restaurants, food manufacturers, and other consumable goods makers, including tobacco, alcohol, and the emerging marijuana and psychedelics industries. The ideal candidate will instinctively understand consumer behavior, be able to spot trends in retail strategies/pricing and have the editing experience to train […]

Morning Brew seeks a retail reporter

Morning Brew is a media company that covers the business news and narratives shaping our world. The companies, the people, the workplace, the economy — we nerd out on this stuff, and we’re dedicated to helping our audience navigate it all in a way that informs and entertains. The Morning Brew team is clever, creative, […]

Retail Brew seeks a reporter

Retail Brew keeps nearly 150,000 retail professionals up to date on the latest news and analysis from across the retail sector. From supply chain and logistics to the customer experience and all points in between, Retail Brew explores how the retail industry navigates the ongoing changes and challenges of the modern world. We’re looking for […]

Onita moves to retail beat at FT

Laura Onita, assistant companies editor at the Financial Times, is moving to the retail beat. Onita joined the Financial Times in October from The Telegraph in 2019, where she was retail editor and retail correspondent. Before that, she was a retail correspondent at the Evening Standard and a business reporter at The Sunday Times. She reported for the Institution […]

Reid to cover European retail for Reuters

Reuters has tapped Helen Reid to cover European retail news. She is based in London. Reid previously was pan-African mining correspondent and she previously was in London covering the stock market. Reid has been with Reuters since August 2016. She previously worked for TXF: Trade and Export Finance as a reporter and African Arguments as an editorial intern. She […]

Recode’s Del Rey among the Vox Media layoffs

Recode senior correspondent Jason Del Rey is among the Vox Media layoffs. Del Rey has spent the last nine years reporting on Amazon, the e-commerce industry, and how technology is transforming brick-and-mortar retail. He has signed a deal with Harper Business to write the book “Winner Sells All” about the retail battle between Walmart vs. Amazon and […]