Is USA Today’s print edition going downhill?
The deal for GateHouse’s parent, New Media Investment Group, to acquire Gannett, which owns USA Today, will not close for at least another month, but, USA Today’s print edition may undergo a major restructuring that will include building up digital marketing while phasing out the print edition, reports Poynter. Maribel Perez Wadsworth, USA Today publisher, […]
Tate joins USA Today to cover travel
Curtis Tate has joined USA Today as their senior travel reporter. Tate will be bringing 16 years of journalistic experience to the company and will be overlooking various tasks including the content production. He will be based in Louisville, Kentucky. Previously, Tate has served as transportation reporter at North Jersey Media Group and as a […]
USA Today seeks an editor on Money and Consumer Tech desk
USA Today is looking for an experienced, competitive editor to join its Money and Consumer Tech news team as a NOW Editor. This editor will help assign and edit breaking and trending Money and Consumer Tech news and work closely with reporters, columnists and other contributors on longer-term and enterprise work. This is a fast-paced […]
USA Today stocks reporter Shell takes buyout
Adam Shell, the USA Today reporter who covers Wall Street, has accepted a buyout and is leaving the paper after 19 years. “In a two-decade run as a stock market reporter, ‘the market’ has been my friend, but also an enemy,” said Shell in his farewell column this week. He added, “I started on March 20, […]
USA Today lays off two from Money desk
USA Today has laid off two staffers from its Money desk, slightly more than a year after it laid off two other staffers from the same desk. Kris Kinkade, who had been at the paper since January 2011 and was most recently assistant Money editor, was one of the two who left earlier this week. […]
Forbes hires USA Today’s Mandaro to run SF bureau
USA Today tech and science editor Laura Mandaro has been hired by Forbes as assistant managing editor for technology and innovation, based in San Francisco, reports Sara Guaglione of Publisher’s Daily. Guaglione writes, “She will be responsible for hiring four additional writers to beef up Forbes’ coverage on tech and innovation. Mandaro will take on her new position October 29. “‘Every […]
USA Today hires Herron to cover personal finance, real estate
USA Today business editor Philana Patterson sent out the following announcement on Friday: I am happy to announce that Janna Herron will join USA TODAY’s Money team to cover personal finance, real estate and financial markets. For more than a decade, Janna has reported on and written about business, personal finance and real estate news and trends. […]
How USA Today is targeting entrepreneurs with USA & Main
Max Willens of Digiday writes about USA Today’s new online section USA & Main, which offers content about small businesses and entrepreneurs. Willens writes, “USA & Main is stocked with articles by USA Today Network staffers as well as content written by USA Today columnists and content syndicated from other publishers, including Motley Fool, the Associated […]
USA Today seeks a consumer editor
USA Today’s Money team is seeking a Consumer Editor to oversee retail, consumer, food and personal technology coverage. This organized editor will manage a team of reporters and will be responsible for generating fresh ideas, short- and long-range planning, overseeing breaking news, off-the-news enterprise, features and ambitious projects including investigative journalism. The successful candidate is […]
USA Today biz/tech news staff losing two in layoffs
USA Today’s business and tech news staff is losing two reporters as part of the Gannett company-wide layoffs. Those being cut are: Roger Yu, who writes about economics and business policy for USA Today. He has previously covered media, technology and health care, and worked in Asia as a foreign correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires. […]
