CNN’s Valdes-Dapena departs
CNN Business reporter Peter Valdes-Dapena has left the news organization. He has been covering automobiles, the industry that produces them and the changing ways in which people buy, own and use them. Valdes-Dapena has written about the industry for CNN since 2001 and, in that time, covered the American auto industry’s collapse during the 2008 […]
Reuters seeks an autos correspondent in San Fran or Detroit
Reuters is looking for a U.S.-based reporter to join our global automotive team. The sector is undergoing a historic change with the transition to electric vehicles and the effort to develop self-driving technology. Tesla has proven an EV leader but is now pivoting to robo taxis as it struggles with falling sales and stiff competition […]
Atlanta daily promotes biz reporter Yamanouchi
Atlanta Journal-Constitution business reporter Kelly Yamanouchi has been promoted to team leader for business coverage. It’s reporter-coach role, says economy and environment editor J. Scott Trubey. She will work with Trubey to help guide coverage of business, climate and environment, as well as future products, including newsletters. “Kelly is a tremendous journalist and the perfect […]
AJC seeks a biz reporter to cover travel
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the largest and most influential local news organization in Georgia and a regional influence in politics, business and culture, seeks a reporter to cover the world’s busiest airport, one of the world’s biggest airlines and two of the world’s most important shipping companies. The AJC’s mission is to be the most essential […]
Tampa Bay Times hires Muckle to cover tourism and transportation
The Tampa Bay Times has hired Shauna Muckle to cover tourism, transportation and technology in the region. Muckle is a recent graduate of Washington & Lee University, where she was editor in chief of the Ring-tum Phi, the student newspaper. While in school, she interned for the Orlando Business Journal, the National Journal and the Times. Muckle […]
Washington Post taps Rowland as editor of transportation, energy and health care team
Washington Post business editor Lori Montgomery and deputy business editor Sandhya Somashekhar sent out the following on Monday: We’re delighted to announce that Chris Rowland, one of the most accomplished reporters on the Business Desk, is stepping into a new role as editor of our transportation, energy and health care team. Since joining The Post […]
WSJ hires Otts to cover autos in Detroit
The Wall Street Journal has hired Chris Otts to cover the auto industry in Detroit. Otts has been a business reporter at WDRB in Louisville for the past decade. Before that, he was a business reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal. He also worked at KentuckianaWorks, the local workforce investment board, in a job researching employment issues. He participated […]
Detroit auto reporter Meloni is retiring
Susan Tompor of the Detroit Free-Press writes about Rod Meloni, who is retiring after three decades leading auto industry and business coverage at WDIV-TV in Detroit. Tompor writes, “During his early years on the auto beat, Meloni one day found himself standing in Detroit in front of a moving SUV as Chrysler tried to prove a point […]
Longtime auto journalist White retires
Joe White, the global automotive correspondent for Reuters, has retired. He has been in that role since January 2022 writing the Auto File newsletter and about the auto and transportation industries. White joined Reuters in January 2015 as the transportation editor leading coverage of planes, trains and automobiles, and later became global automotive editor. Prior to […]
Reuters seeks a reporter to cover Boeing
Reuters is looking for a dynamic and ambitious U.S. Aerospace Correspondent (Level 1 Journalist) to lead our coverage of Boeing at a critical moment for the 107-year-old plane manufacturer. Since the dramatic midair blowout of a door panel on a Boeing 737 MAX in January, the beleaguered jetmaker has been put under scrutiny by everyone from investors and […]
