Towey departs Business Insider for Conde Nast Traveler
Business Insider travel and transportation reporter Hannah Towey has left to become an associate editor at Conde Nast Traveler. She had been at Insider since June 2021. Towey previously worked as a documentary script writer at PBS North Carolina. She is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate.
Bloomberg reporter O’Kane departs
Bloomberg News reporter Sean O’Kane is leaving the organization. He has been covering electronic vehicle startup companies and was based in Texas. He started at Bloomberg in January 2022. O’Kane had been at The Verge for eight years and has been a senior reporter since February 2019. He previously worked as a photo editor at Black Entertainment […]
NPR names Rose its transportation reporter
Joel Rose has been named transportation reporter at National Public Radio. His reporting focuses on traffic and pedestrian safety, the transition to electric vehicles, and an air travel system under stress. Since joining NPR in 2011, Rose has covered immigration for the network and worked as a general assignment reporter in New York City. He was […]
Dallas Morning News seeks a transportation and mobility reporter
The Dallas Morning News is looking for a reporter who can drive our coverage of transportation and mobility to the next level in one of America’s fastest growing regions. Texas’ population just crossed the 30 million mark and demographers predict it’ll grow to nearly 40 million by 2036 — the equivalent of adding a city the […]
Minneapolis/St. Paul Biz Journal seeks aviation, tech and manufacturing reporter
The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal is looking for a competitive, resourceful reporter to cover various sectors of the Twin Cities economy, including the airlines serving Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and the airport itself as well as the private executive aviation market, technology and med-tech firms and startups and the region’s biggest manufacturers. This combination of […]
Bloomberg taps Hou to serve as China aviation reporter
Ocean Hou, who was working on China breaking news and news curation, has been appointed China aviation reporter at Bloomberg News. Previously, Hou was at The Wall Street Journal, where she worked for more than seven years. There, she held the posts of translator, slot editor and translator and translation editor. She has also worked […]
WSJ reporter Katz wins Sidney Award for tarmac worker coverage
Ben Katz of the Wall Street Journal won the September Sidney Award for “More Workers Are Getting Hurt on the Tarmac,” which exposes how ground workers are being injured as the airline industry roars back to life. A 34-year-old ramp worker and mother of three was sucked into a jet engine; she was instantly killed. OSHA fined her […]
Lowy, former AP transportation reporter, dies at 66
Joan Lowy, who spent the final decade of her career covering transportation issues for The Associated Press, died Wednesday from cancer. She was 66. The AP’s Darlene Superville writes, “Ken Guggenheim, who was Lowy’s editor before she went on leave in 2018 to focus on her illness, said she was smart, dogged and no-nonsense. “Lowy […]
Arnold named assistant biz editor at Dallas Morning News
The Dallas Morning News has promoted reporter Kyle Arnold to be assistant business editor. He has been with the paper since May 2019 and previously covered aviation. Arnold previously was a business reporter at the Orlando Sentinel, where covered real estate, retail and restaurants. Before Orlando, he worked at the Tulsa World and won an AP award for his work […]
Dallas Morning News taps Skores to cover aviation
The Dallas Morning News has named Alexandra Skores to be its aviation reporter. She has been covering breaking business news and filling in on the aviation beat. She previously interned for the Morning News and The Oregonian in Portland. Skores is a graduate of the University of Iowa, where she was managing editor of the award-winning Daily Iowan.
