The Economist taps Owen as head of social media

The Economist has named Isobel Owen as its head of social media. Owen has been a senior audience editor helping adapt The Economist’s journalism for social media and other digital platforms. She collaborates with colleagues within the Audience team and across the newsroom to reach new audiences and engage our current subscribers by leading on push alerts. […]

CNN taps Gold to cover media in New York

CNN’s Hadas Gold has moved to New York and is now covering media. She was CNN’s Jerusalem correspondent. Gold reported extensively on the drastic internal political changes happening in Israel, from the unprecedented protest movement against the Israeli government’s judicial overhaul plan, to Benjamin Netanyahu’s historic corruption trial and loss of the premiership in 2021, as well […]

Washington Post names Brown deputy editor of rapid response I-team

The Washington Post announced Monday that Emma Brown will be deputy editor of the rapid-response investigations team. While serving as interim deputy editor of the team this year, Brown shepherded a reconstruction of Ted Leonsis’s decision to move the Washington Wizards and the Capitals to Northern Virginia, resulting in a gripping, behind-the-scenes narrative account of months […]

Darmiento now covering aerospace for LA Times

Los Angeles Times reporter Laurence Darmiento is now on the aerospace beat. He has been covering wealth, deals and dealmakers for the publication. Darmiento joined the Times in 2015 as an assistant business editor. He previously was editor of the San Fernando Valley Business Journal. Prior to that, he spent six years as managing editor of the Los Angeles […]

Fortune hires Goldman to cover artificial intelligence

Fortune magazine has hired Sharon Goldman to cover artificial intelligence. She will start this week. Goldman has been a senior reporter at VentureBeat for the past two years. Goldman previously worked as a freelance writer and was published in CIO.com, Business Insider, Adweek, Modern Jeweler, Workspan, and ALM Media/Law.com, among other publications. She is a graduate of George Washington […]

How the FT developed an AI chatbot

Emma Roth and Quentyn Kennemer of The Verge look at the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by the Financial Times using content from its articles. Roth and Kennemer write, “It can provide responses to questions about current events, like how much funding Intel received from the US government under the CHIPS Act, as well as broader queries, […]

Quartz hires Fabbro has staff writer

Financial news site Quartz has hired Rocio Fabbro as a staff writer, its sixth new hire in the last eight weeks. Prior to joining Quartz, Fabbro was a breaking news reporter on The Messenger’s business team, covering labor, workplace, markets, and banks. She previously interned at Foreign Policy, CNBC, and Salon. Born in Buenos Aires […]

Fortune executive editor: UK lacks journalism that celebrates success

Marcela Kunova of Journalism.co.uk interviewed Alex Wood Morton, the new Fortune executive editor for Europe, about his plans. Here is an excerpt: While many publishers are struggling, Fortune is expanding to Europe and growing its teams. What’s the reason for your success? Fortune caters to executives and leaders which is, by its nature, a small audience. There is a problem […]

Reuters seeks a reporter in Poland

Reuters is seeking candidates who can speak fluent English and French to join its real-time news operation in Gdansk, Poland. The reporters will work in fast paced, international environment to produce headlines, write short stories about companies from one of Europe’s biggest economies, produce multimedia packages, translate international news for Reuters’ French-speaking audience, and become […]

Bloomberg seeks a finance and markets editor in Tokyo

Bloomberg News is one of the biggest financial and business news organizations in the world. We lead the way in breaking news and providing analysis on financial markets, from daily coverage through to in-depth features. We are known for our quality, accuracy and ability to deliver news investors can use. It’s what keeps us inventing […]