TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE
Associated Press business editor Hal Ritter sent out the following e-mail on Friday:
“We’ll be welcoming three reporters and an editor to Business News in the coming weeks. Collectively, they represent a significant increase in resources. And more to come as we work to fill remaining positions. Below is some information on the staffers joining us next month or in early September.
“Caitlin Hendel will join us Aug. 30 and fill the long-vacant job of health care team leader. Caitlin is a managing editor at the CQ-Roll Call Group in Washington. She manages a team of 16 reporters and five editors and is responsible for five online publications that cover all legislative action on Capitol Hill. She has had other jobs at CQ since joining in 2002, including responsibility for coverage of health care legislation.
Before CQ, Caitlin was at Bloomberg News for five years. She was Bloomberg’s economics editor part of that time. Before Bloomberg, she worked at The Kansas City Star for 10 years. She started as a copy editor and was editor for state and national news when she left. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Kansas.
Caitlin will work in the Washington bureau.
“Matt Craft joins us Aug. 26 as a financial markets reporter in New York. Matt has been a staff writer for Forbes magazine and Forbes.com since 2007. He has written on a range of topics but mostly covered the debt markets. Before Forbes, Matt was an editor at Institutional Investor News. He started his journalism career as an education reporter at The Courier, a newspaper in Houma, La. After that, he was a reporter for both The Seattle Times and The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
“Matt’s first job out of college was teaching algebra at a high school in Louisiana. He was part of the Teach for America program and taught students 14-21 with learning disabilities.
“Matt earned a bachelor’s degree in international relations at Bucknell University and a master’s in international affairs at Columbia University.
“Michelle Conlin will start Sept. 7 as a real estate reporter in New York. Michelle worked for 11 years at BusinessWeek and was a senior writer when she left earlier this year. She started the working life beat at BW, which focused on workplace issues and trends. She wrote more than two dozen cover stories while covering this popular beat. Before Business Week, Michelle was a staff writer for Forbes magazine in Chicago. She also was an associate producer at CNNfn and a reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer.
“Michelle was co-producer of ‘No Impact Man,’ a documentary film about her family’s one-year experiment trying to minimize impact on the environment. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009 and was distributed nationally.
“Michelle has a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Connecticut College and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University.
“Pallavi Gogoi will start Sept. 8 as a banking reporter in New York. Pallavi is a columnist for AOL Daily Finance. Before that, she was a banking reporter for USA Today. She got the first post-meltdown interviews with Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, and Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase. She was a reporter for BusinessWeek in Chicago and New York from 2000-2008. She covered the retailing and food industries primarily. Pallavi also worked as a copy editor, reporter and editor for newspapers in Calcutta and New Delhi.
“Pallavi has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English literature from Delhi University.”
