Chicago Sun-Times seeks a transportation reporter

Chicago is a global transportation hub with millions of people and products passing through our city each day. This complex transit environment includes one of the world’s largest airports; the 2nd largest public transit system in the country; a network of railroads that moves over 490 tons of goods over 4,000 miles of track; waterways […]

WSJ airline reporter Carey is retiring

Susan Carey, who has covered the airlines for The Wall Street Journal for more than 30 years, is retiring. Her last day is Friday. Carey has been at The Journal since 1981, starting in the Pittsburgh bureau, where she covered coal mining, steel, labor unions and Appalachia. She has been a journalist for 40 years. […]

WSJ seeks an airlines reporter

The Wall Street Journal is seeking an enterprising reporter to master one of our premier corporate beats: the aviation industry. The trillion-dollar global airline industry comprises some of our biggest and most important companies. It is a barometer of global economic health and a key part of the professional lives of many Wall Street Journal […]

Coverage: Musk sets aggressive growth targets for Tesla

Billionaire Elon Musk set a series of aggressive growth targets at Tesla Inc.that would make the electric carmaker one of the world’s most valuable companies within the next decade and assured shareholders he’ll stick around by tying his compensation to those goals. Tom Lavell and Dana Hull of Bloomberg News had the story: The unprecedented pay package proposes Musk won’t get […]

New York Times seeks auto reporter

Business Day is looking for an enterprising, dynamic reporter who can establish leadership in covering the rapidly transforming automobile industry in all its dimensions. The beat will be a window onto the Detroit automakers and foreign companies producing vehicles for the American market – as manufacturers, employers, marketers, style makers. It will explore what those companies are […]

Coverage: Fiat Chrsyler CEO warns that the future is electric

Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne spoke Monday at the Detroit auto show, and his statements included the belief that automakers have less than a decade to convert to electric vehicles. Tommaso Ebhardt of Bloomberg News had the story: Developing technologies like electrification, self-driving software and ride-sharing will alter consumers’ car-buying decisions within six or seven years, the Fiat […]

Coverage: Toyota/Mazda to build plant in Alabama

Toyota Motor and Mazda Motor announced Wednesday that it will build a plant, which will employ 4,000 workers and crank out up to 300,000 vehicles annually, in Alabama that is scheduled to open in 2021. Phil LeBeau of CNBC had the news: Once that happens, Alabama could become the fourth-biggest state in the U.S. when it […]

Auto reporter/columnist Brown leaving Washington Post

Warren Brown, who has written about the auto industry for The Washington Post since 1982, is ending his Cars column. In his last column, Brown writes, “It is appropriate that I finish this last column for The Washington Post on Christmas Eve. It is an ending and beginning — for me and, looking forward, for the […]

Coverage: VW to make bigger push into electric cars

Volkswagen pledged to speed up its turnaround efforts and accelerate a push into electric cars as cost cuts and an expanding lineup of sport-utility vehicles help boost profits. Christoph Rauwald of Bloomberg News had the story: The namesake VW brand will initially develop five all-electric models, taking on Tesla Inc. with its coming I.D. vehicle range, it said Thursday […]

Essex returning to Free Press to oversee biz coverage

Randy Essex, the former business editor at the Detroit Free Press, is returning to the paper after a stint running a paper in Colorado. Essex has been publisher and editor of the Post Independent in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. His new job will be senior content director at the Free Press, where he will lead business coverage, including […]