BBC has tapped Sarah Smith as its new North America editor. She recently served as Scotland editor. Before that, she was based in the U.S. for several years, working for Channel 4 News.
Smith will be based in D.C. and will replace Jon Sopel, who left the role last month. She begins early next year.
Smith is an award-winning journalist who has also worked as a BBC presenter and interviewer, anchoring the Today Program, the nightly BBC Scotland Program, and Newsnight, among others. She says, “I am thrilled to be appointed as the BBC’s North America Editor. This is such a fascinating time in US politics and society, and I am very excited to be reporting these stories for our BBC audience.”
The Yale Program on Stakeholder Innovation and Management announced the appointment of Alan Murray, departing chief…
The Advocate is looking for a savvy reporter to cover the Baton Rouge business scene…
MLex, a LexisNexis company, is an independent news organization for breaking news and forward-looking analysis…
The Austin Business Journal seeks a staff writer to cover economic development in one of…
A Russian court on Saturday placed Sergei Mingazov, a journalist for the Russian edition of…
Justin Nielsen of Investor's Business Daily writes about the newspaper's 40th anniversary. Nielsen writes, "When the…