Ryan to cover Airbus at Bloomberg News

Charlotte Ryan will now be covering Airbus and transportation for Bloomberg News. She previously covered the markets and Brexit for Bloomberg. Before joining Bloomberg, Ryan was working as a freelance journalist for NewsBase. Before that, she held the post of features editor at Bogota Post. She also worked as a news intern and newsroom intern […]

Shine joins Automotive News as senior editor

Automotive News has named Dan Shine as a senior editor. Previously, Shine was director, external communications and WDI content editor at William Davidson Institute. He was also adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Michigan. He also held the same post at the University of Detroit Mercy. He has also served as a spokesman […]

Business Insider hires Jones for transportation team

Business Insider has hired Alanis King Jones to be an associate editor on its transportation team. She has been a staff writer and a weekend editor at Jalopnik for the last four years. She will work at Jalopnik through next week. “The opportunity and role BI has offered me is huge, and it’s an honor […]

How Ford responded to Free Press stories on its defective transmissions

Peter Bhatia, the editor of the Detroit Free Press, writes Sunday about how Ford Motor Co. responded to reporter Phoebe Wall Howard‘s stories about its defective transmissions. Bhatia writes, “Ford also took the extraordinary step of sending a top North America quality executive to the Flint home of a woman featured in a Free Press video. Surprised to discover that […]

Dow Jones/WSJ autos reporter departs to freelance

Max Bernhard has left his job as a reporter covering European autos with Dow Jones, Newswires and The Wall Street Journal with the new year. Instead, now, he will be reporting from Hong Kong covering the pro-democracy protests as a freelancer. His long-term plans are to be based in Tokyo. Before joining Dow Jones and […]

Schaefer to oversee auto and biz coverage at Free Press

Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Jim Schaefer has been named senior news director for autos, business and education coverage at the Detroit Free Press. A Free Press story states, “Schaefer, 55, has worked for the Free Press in two stints since 1988. He’s been a reporter, columnist, video game critic and, for the last three years, editor […]

FT hires Crain’s Chicago reporter Bushey to cover manufacturing

The Financial Times has hired Claire Bushey in its Chicago bureau to lead reporting on manufacturing in the American Midwest. Bushey will cover a range of topics including spearheading coverage of Boeing and the “Big Three” automakers. The new hire comes as part of the London-based news organization’s effort to expand as part of its […]

Jalopnik editor in chief George is leaving

Patrick George, the editor in chief of auto industry site Jalopnik, is leaving the publication next week. “This decision was entirely mine, and though it was an incredibly difficult one to make, I’m leaving for a new opportunity I’m very excited about,” he wrote on Twitter. He became editor of Jalopnik in 2015. He joined […]

Wall Street Journal corp team taps nine for new positions

Jamie Heller, the business editor of The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following announcement on Friday afternoon: Hello everyone, We have several exciting moves to share in corp. Scott Austin has taken on a role on the business side with the partnerships team. Scott spent 19 years as a reporter and editor at The […]

Reuters seeks reporter to cover Europe automakers

Reuters is looking for an auto industry reporter who can break news and develop enterprise features on the UK and European auto sectors.  An important part of the job will be to collaborate with French and Italian language reporters on coverage of Renault, Peugeot, Fiat Chrysler and Ferrari as well as major automotive suppliers in […]