AP hires two for business desk

Associated Press business editor Hal Ritter made the following hiring announcement to the staff:

Jonathan Fahey joined the Associated Press on Monday as an energy reporter in New York on Monday. Jon joined Forbes magazine in 2000 and had jobs as staff writer, senior reporter and associate editor. He covered energy and energy technology and wrote two blogs for Forbes.com: ‘Out of the Labs,’ which profiled basic research in academic and industrial labs and ‘The Energy Source,’ which examined energy issues. Before Forbes, Jon was a reporter at the Concord Monitor, where he covered local and state politics, crime, the environment and education. Before becoming a journalist, Jon was a business consultant for Peterson Consulting and worked at auction house Christie’s in the new media and legal departments. Jon graduated from Connecticut College in 1992 with a degree in English arts.

David Randall joins us Sept. 27 as a financial markets reporter in New York. David was formerly a staff writer and senior reporter at Forbes magazine. Most recently, he was Forbes’ lead investment writer. Before Forbes, David was a stringer for the New York Times and worked at Facts on File as an assistant editor. He graduated from the University of California, Riverside, in 2003 with a bachelor’s degree in English. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from New York University in 2006.