Business Insider hires Stewart to write about business, ecoomy

Business Insider has hired Emily Stewart to write about business and the economy. She previously was a senior correspondent at Vox. At Vox, Stewart focused her coverage of how markets affect people in their everyday lives. Stewart launched and was the author of a monthly newsletter, “The Big Squeeze,” examining the ways ordinary people are being squeezed under […]

Vox senior correspondent Stewart departs

Emily Stewart, a senior correspondent at Vox, is leaving the news organization. Stewart focused her coverage of how markets affect people in their everyday lives. Stewart launched and was the author of a monthly newsletter, “The Big Squeeze,” examining the ways ordinary people are being squeezed under capitalism and the scams — legal and illegal […]

Vox tech reporter Morrison among those laid off

Vox senior reporter Sara Morrison was among those laid off by the publication this week. She most recently was covering antitrust scrutiny and regulation of Big Tech. Since she joined Recode/Vox  to cover privacy and personal data for the Open Sourced project, Sara has published excellent stories on privacy issues, but she’s also shown she can write […]

Senior correspondent Molla among the layoffs at Vox

Senior correspondent Rani Molla is among the layoffs at Vox on Thursday. Molla has covered business and technology for more than a decade, including at Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal. She specializes in making information easily accessible through charts and graphics — like this distillation of the media landscape. Lately she’s been focusing on […]

Vox climate reporter Leber among those laid off

Vox senior reporter covering climate Rebecca Leber  was among those laid off from the publication on Thursday. Leber previously worked at Mother Jones where she spent more than four years working as a reporter on the climate and environment beat. Before that, she was a news editor at Grist managing its political and news coverage. She […]

Keating to join Vox as senior correspondent

Vox has hired Joshua Keating as a senior correspondent to cover “global trends, and the ideas and dynamics that have shaped them.” He will be based in Washington, D.C., and will begin on Dec. 4. Keating will join from The Messenger, where he is a global security reporter, a post he previously held at Grid. […]

Wilkinson departs Vox for NY Times critic position

Alissa Wilkinson has joined The New York Times as a critic to cover movies “at a key moment when both movies and criticism are going through transformational changes,” reports the Times. Wilkinson joined from Vox, where she worked for seven years holding the posts of reporter, senior reporter and senior correspondent. She wrote about film, […]

Vox promotes Nelson to editorial director

Libby Nelson, policy editor at Vox.com, has taken on the role of editorial director for policy, politics, and health and science. In more than nine years at Vox, Nelson held the posts of reporter, associate editor, news editor and deputy policy editor. She also taught at American University. In addition, she also reported for Politico […]

Vox makes two new hires

The following excerpt was sent out from Vox: Today, Vox announced that Pulitzer Prize finalist Abdallah Fayyad is joining Vox as a correspondent on the policy team, and Jorge Just will join Vox as editorial director of audio. In his new role, Fayyad will examine the impact of domestic and social policies past, present, and future, including reporting on […]

Chittal takes on new role at Vox

Nisha Chittal, managing editor at Vox.com, has been appointed chief of staff. In her new role, she will “help run the operations of the full, unified newsrooms, oversee our long-term editorial planning, as well as manage our Network Development team.” Chittal has been with Vox for six years, previously holding the posts of engagement editor […]