SF Standard hires Jones as tech reporter
San Francisco Standard editor in chief Kevin Delaney sent out the following on Monday: I’m excited to share that Rachyl Jones is joining The Standard as a technology reporter. Rachyl has been a tech reporter for Semafor, where she’s distinguished herself with her perceptive, dogged coverage of AI companies and tech trends. “She’s just so […]
Tech reporter Jones departs Semafor
Semafor tech reporter Rachyl Jones is leaving the news organization for a job on the West Coast. Her coverage has focused on the intersection of culture and technology, especially AI, humanoid robots, and quantum computing. Previously, she was a tech reporting fellow at Fortune and a media reporter at the Observer, where she more closely covered social […]
Why Semafor wants to be the biz news outlet of the Gulf
Charlotte Tobitt of Press Gazette writes about Semafor’s expansion plans in the Gulf region. Tobitt writes, “He said it is ‘meant to be a first read for people who are obsessed with and need to be obsessed with the Gulf – and we’re very sophisticated about it, not the occasional kind of colourful dispatch from Arabia.’ […]
Semafor seeks a health care reporter
Semafor is looking for a formidable reporter based in Washington, DC, to get scoops and dig into the biggest stories at the intersection of health care policy, politics, business and power. The future of healthcare and health policy is already taking shape, affected as much by AI and blockbuster drugs like GLP-1s as by the […]
Semafor hires Banicki as head of video
Semafor has hired Adam Banicki, Fortune’s general manager of video, as its first head of video, reports Mark Stenberg of Adweek. Stenberg writes, “Banicki, who previously spent more than five years at The Wall Street Journal, where he last served as senior executive producer of YouTube, will oversee both the editorial and commercial sides of Semafor’s […]
Semafor seeks a business and finance reporter
Semafor is a global news platform for an increasingly complex world in which consumers are overwhelmed by too many news sources and unsure what to trust. We are building Semafor to enable world-class journalists to deliver reporting and insights with rigor in journalistic forms that ensure a new level of transparency. Our editors and reporters […]
Semafor hires Rappaport as senior business editor
Semafor has hired former Wall Street Journal features editor Liz Rappaport to be senior business editor, reports Lachlan Cartwright of Breaker. Rappaport was an editor for The Journal’s weekend business and finance section, Exchange, before leaving last year. Before that, she was the Journal’s Los Angeles bureau chief. Rappaport had been with he Journal since 2008, when […]
Semafor promotes Rao to global managing editor
Semafor has promoted Prashant Rao to global managing editor. He has been a senior editor in London, leading Semafor’s daily global publication Flagship, and also overseeing a range of other projects. Rao was an international editor at The Atlantic and deputy Europe business editor at The New York Times. He served as U.K. reporter, Baghdad correspondent, Baghdad deputy bureau chief, […]
Semafor is expanding into Silicon Valley
Semafor will launch a multiday Silicon Valley conference that will have two days of live journalism and breakout sessions anchored by Semafor’s team of reporters, reports Emily Shugerman of The San Francisco Standard. Shugerman reports, “Since its founding as a scrappy international news startup competing against august titles like the Financial Times and Economist, Semafor has developed […]
How Edgecliffe-Johnson covers CEOs for Semafor
Meredith Klein of Meredith and the Media interviewed Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, Semafor’s CEO editor, about his job. Here is an excerpt: For the past year-and-a-half, you’ve been at Semafor as the CEO editor. You profile CEOs weekly on the site, as well as write The CEO Signal newsletter, which is a weekly guide to the ideas, leaders, and companies […]
