The Information promotes Yurieff to team leader
The Information has promoted reporter Kaya Yurieff to team leader, focusing on focusing on shaping its creator economy coverage and growing the franchise. Yurieff will continue to write its creator economy newsletter. She joined the company three years ago. Yurieff had been a technology reporter at CNN for the past four years, where she reported on social media […]
FT hires Heeter to cover deals and activists
The Financial Times has hired The Information reporter Maria Heeter to cover mergers and acquisitions and activist investors. Heeter will start later this month and be based in New York. She has been covering a similar beat for The Information for the past year. Before that, Heeter was covering venture capital, cryptocurrency and finance for The Information. […]
The Information hires Ramaswamy to cover finance
Martin Peers, New York bureau chief for The Information, sent out the following on Wednesday: Folks, We’re thrilled to announce that Anita Ramaswamy is joining The Information as a financial analysis writer, based in San Francisco after an initial stint in New York. Anita comes to us from Reuters, where she has been writing for the […]
The Information hires Yang to cover crypto
Meredith Mazzilli, an editor at The Information, sent out the following on Wednesday: Team, We’re thrilled to announce that Yueqi Yang will be joining The Information as a crypto reporter based in New York. Yueqi comes to us from Bloomberg, where she’s been covering crypto exchanges and the intersection of crypto and Wall Street for […]
The Information finance editor Becker is departing
Nate Becker, the finance editor at The Information, will be leaving the publication next month. Becker joined The Information in September 2022. He previously was at The Wall Street Journal, where he helped lead the paper’s renowned team covering deals and Wall Street. He also ran the breaking news desk at the Journal and first […]
Bloomberg News hires LaCapra as editor on markets desk
Bloomberg News has hired Lauren Tara LaCapra as an editor on its markets desk. She has been at The Information as its lead Wall Street reporter. She has spent nearly two decades as a business journalist, including a decade at Reuters, where she was one of the senior editors managing the global finance and markets team. Before she became […]
The Information rolls out redesign
Jessica Lessin, the editor in chief of tech news site The Information, writes about its redesign. Lessin writes, “Overall, we redesigned more than 200 pages—a massive undertaking from our incredibly talented team. “When we launched 10 years ago, we offered subscribers one type of article: exclusive news about the most important tech companies. Today, a […]
The Information hires Brown to be its weekend magazine editor
The Information has hired Abram Brown to be its weekend magazine editor. He has been a deputy editor at The Messenger for the past six months. He previously had been at The Information to work on its weekend magazine, covering wealth, power and technology and how those shape culture and the world. Brown previously had been at […]
The Information hires Friday to cover private equity
The Information has hired Francesca Friday to cover private equity. She will start on Jan. 2. Friday was previously a New York-based reporter and the producer of Due Diligence, the FT’s daily briefing on corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions, and private equity. She was previously a senior reporter at FT Specialist publication Mandatewire, where she covered asset management. […]
Steinberg leaving The Information for San Francisco Standard
Jon Steinberg, who launched and edited The Information’s weekend section, is leaving the tech news site to become executive editor of the San Francisco Standard. The weekend section covers tech, culture, parenting and other topics. He joined The Information from Epic Magazine, a division of Vox Media, where he was a creative director. He has also […]
