FT seeks a newsletter writer and editor

Newsletters are key to the FT’s strategy – building up habits, leading to traffic, retaining our subscribers, and acquiring new ones. As we expand our portfolio, we are looking for a writer and editor to join our newsletter team. In this role you’ll be writing, editing, producing and promoting our newsletters. You’ll be adept at […]

NPR hires Spicer as Europe editor

In a note to newsroom staff, Didrik Schanche, chief international editor at NPR, made the following announcement: Dear All, I am pleased to announce that veteran journalist Nick Spicer is joining NPR on February 26th as Europe Editor. Nick is a reporter who is comfortable on air, online and on screen. He most recently worked […]

Why Sagan joined The Logic

Aleksandra Sagan, the British Columbia correspondent for The Logic, writes in an email to potential subscribers about what attracted her to the news organization. Sagan writes, “I became a journalist to tell stories that make a difference in people’s lives. For nearly a decade, I reported on topics such as Indigenous land-rights battles and the […]

Liao moving to part-time role at TechCrunch

Rita Liao, who covers Asia for TechCrunch,  is moving to a part-time role in March with the technology news site. Liao has a special interest in Chinese companies going global and web3 projects with real-world applications. Before her previous writing stints with Tech in Asia and TechNode, Liao managed communications for SOSV’s accelerators in Asia. […]

FT hires Bhandari as news graphics journalist

The Financial Times has hired Aditi Bhandari as a news graphics journalist. Bhandari spent the last five years at Reuters as a data visualization specialist where she conceived, designed and coded custom-designed pages, data-led graphics and maps. She has also worked at the Hindustan Times in Mumbai and WAMU 88.5 in Washington. Bhandari holds a […]

Bloomberg hires Karra as a senior reporter

Bloomberg News has hired Krishna Karra as a senior reporter. He will work on the visuals team specializing in remote sensing and satellite imagery analysis. Karra is a data scientist focused on earth observation, satellite imagery and remote sensing. He’s also an adjunct professor at The Cooper Union and teach a graduate level class called “Fundamentals of Remote […]

Why CNBC isn’t helpful to viewers

Andrew Feinberg writes for Slate about how financial news channel CNBC actually hurts investors. Feinberg writes, “You don’t need to know the investing record of CNBC experts to be suspicious of what passes for on-air wisdom. Four stock pickers, including Dewardric McNeal of Longview Global LLC and Barbara Doran of BD8 Capital Partners, recently mispronounced Nvidia […]

Reuters wins Polk Award for Musk coverage

The staff of Reuters has won the George Polk business reporting award for penetrating reports on nefarious practices at companies owned by multi-billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. The reporters documented a spate of injuries and the death of a worker at SpaceX and poor treatment of laboratory animals at Neuralink, Musk’s brain-implant company. Other stories found […]

Bloomberg Television hires Bercetche to anchor

Joumanna Bercetche has been hired Bloomberg Television as the new anchor of “Daybreak Middle East and Africa,” starting in April and based in Dubai. “Daybreak Middle East and Africa” provides audiences with a daily spotlight on one of the world’s fastest-growing regions, with the latest global markets and analysis, plus news-making interviews. “The quality of […]

The pressures that business journalists face

Chris Hedges of “The Chris Hedges Report” spoke with Gretchen Morgenson, a senior financial reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit who previously worked for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times where she won a Pulitzer Prize, about the issues in journalism. Here is an excerpt: Chris Hedges:  Yeah. I used to say, that […]