NY Times hires Wemple to cover media for business section
The New York Times has hired Erik Wemple to cover media news for the business section. He will start in September and be based in Washington. Wemple has been at The Washington Post for the past 14 years and is taking the newspaper’s buyout offer. He previously was the Loose Lips columnist for Washington City Paper. Then […]
OPEC bars five news organizations from meeting
OPEC excluded five of the world’s leading news organizations from covering its biennial oil seminar in Vienna, attended by the group’s ministers and senior industry executives, reports Will Kennedy of Bloomberg News. Kennedy reports, “The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries did not accredit Bloomberg News, despite repeated requests, and offered no explanation for its decision. The […]
NY Times taps Tan to cover Meta, Isaac to cover Silicon Valley
New York Times business editor Ellen Pollock sent out the following on Tuesday: Hi all — We have had a bunch of folks take on new roles in the last couple of months so I’d like to recap it all below. A special congratulations to Eli Tan, until recently our fellow in San Francisco, who has officially […]
The search for a new Dealbook editor
Lachlan Cartwright of Breaker reports on the search for a new editor of Dealbook, the New York Times’ business newsletter. Cartwright writes, “We have learned that Edmund Lee, who had been temporarily overseeing DealBook returned to his role on the paper’s Trust team, who work to provide greater transparency to Times journalism, late last month. “‘My […]
Ex-Business Insider executive editor lands at NY Times
Kieran Corcoran, a former executive editor at Business Insider before leaving earlier this year, has a new job at the New York Times. Corcoran is now an editor on the Express desk at the Times in its London bureau. He previously spent nearly eight years at Business Insider and was second-in-command in the UK, leading […]
NY Times’ Stockman now covering manufacturing
Farah Stockman is now covering manufacturing for the New York Times. She previously was in the opinion department as a writer covering foreign policy and national affairs as a member of the editorial board. Stockman also spent four years writing stories about race and class and middle America at the Times. Stockman began her career in […]
NY Times seeks an economics editor
The New York Times is seeking an editor to help run our coverage of the American economy and the impact of policy changes on workers and businesses. This editor needs to be able to juggle news and enterprise in many different forms. You will organize coverage of major data releases like the monthly jobs report, […]
NY Times hires Joselow to cover climate policy
Lyndsey Layton and Jesse Pesta, deputy editors on the climate desk at the New York Times, sent out the following to the staff: We are thrilled to announce that Maxine Joselow, an energetic reporter, will be joining the Climate desk to cover climate policy and politics. Maxine spent the last four years at The Washington Post, first […]
NY Times, Reuters win Deadline Club awards for biz journalism
The New York Times and Reuters are the winners in the Deadline Club business journalism award categories. Business Feature The New York Times “How Cheerleading Became So Acrobatic, Dangerous and Popular” David Gauvey Herbert “Cheer Inc.” exposes the influence and evolution of a monopolistic juggernaut, Varsity Spirit, a company which has dominated the multibillion dollar world of […]
NY Times hires Johnson as consumer and industries editor
New York Times business editor Ellen Pollock sent out the following on Wednesday: We are delighted to announce that Kimberly S. Johnson will join Business as consumer and industries editor. Kimberly will oversee a group of reporters covering manufacturing, agriculture, retail, food and logistics, all important topics as our readers and businesses confront a new era of […]
