Annie Palmer has been promoted to reporter. She will be responsible for covering Amazon. Recently, she worked as an associate reporter for the CNBC tech team.
Before joining CNBC, Palmer was a technology and science reporter at The Daily Mail. She also worked at TheStreet as a tech reporter.
Palmer holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Syracuse University.
Secondly, reporter Lauren Hirsch has switched beats to join the politics team. There, she will focus on the regulatory world, explaining how rules, investigations and pronouncements from D.C. impact the country’s largest companies.
Previously, she covered consumer and retail companies at CNBC.
Prior to joining CNBC, she covered M&A at Reuters, as a correspondent and later as a team leader. Hirsch has a degree in comparative literature from Cornell University and a master’s degree from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Lastly, Greg Iacurci has been appointed as a personal finance reporter based in Englewood Cliffs.
Before coming to CNBC, he spent four years as a reporter at InvestmentNews. There, he had a broad beat covering retirement, insurance, tax and estate planning. He also wrote a few off-beat pieces, including one detailing the devastating financial impact of opioid including how the United States is failing in its efforts around financial literacy.
He also covered the 401(k) industry for a handful of trade magazines, including Fund Action and 401kWire.
Iacurci graduated from Fordham University, where he received a degree in communication and French.
