CNBC’s Herera to step back from day-to-day duties
CNBC chairman Mark Hoffman sent out the following announcement on Friday: After more than 30 extraordinary years with CNBC, Sue Herera will step back from her day-to-day on-air responsibilities but remain part of the family as Anchor-at-Large, effective February 17. As part of CNBC’s founding team, Sue helped launch the network in 1989 and played an integral […]
Insider hires Cantrell as finance features editor
Amanda Cantrell is joining Insider as our new finance features editor, where she will lead a team writing stories about the most powerful firms and people on Wall Street. Cantrell is an award-winning financial journalist who has focused on hedge funds and institutional asset management for much of her career. She joined Institutional Investor in […]
Bloomberg Industry union leader: This is why unions matter
Fatima Hussein, a reporter at Bloomberg Law and the head of the union that represents Bloomberg Industry staffers, sent out the following on Thursday afternoon: Dear Guild Members, As reported in the New York Times, 90 of our beloved colleagues at Bloomberg News will be laid off. Our hearts, thoughts, and prayers are with them. […]
O’Neil Lecture in Business Journalism features The 19th founders
After breaking ground in nonprofit journalism as top leaders at The Texas Tribune, Emily Ramshaw and Amanda Zamora launched their own national news organization last year, The 19th, which strives to empower women, people of color and the LGBTQ+ community “with the information, community and tools they need to be equal participants in our democracy.” The pair […]
Variety promotes Aswad to deputy music editor
Variety has promoted Jem Aswad to deputy music editor. A story on its website states, “Based in New York, Aswad joined Variety in April 2017 from Billboard. He signed on to relaunch Variety‘s music coverage alongside Shirley Halperin, Executive Editor of Music, to whom he reports. “Aswad’s promotion comes as Variety has expanded the scope and volume of its music editorial […]
Fox Business hires Hu as correspondent
Fox Business Network has signed Spectrum News NY1 investigative reporter Lydia Hu as a New York-based correspondent. She will begin her new role on Feb. 15. Since January 2018, Hu has worked as a general assignment reporter and enterprise storyteller for NY1 in New York. Most recently, she covered the plight of New York City […]
Bloomberg Industry hires Carrizosa as video journalist
Josh Block, executive producer of videos and podcasts at Bloomberg Industry Group, sent out the following announcement on Thursday: Please join me in welcoming a new member of the video and podcast team, Macarena Carrizosa. Macarena is joining the team as a video journalist and will produce videos on topics across all INDG news desks. […]
Two-time Loeb winner Ivry among 90 Bloomberg layoffs
Two-time Gerald Loeb Award winner Bob Ivry is among the approximate 90 staffers who were laid off at Bloomberg on Thursday. Ivry has been at Bloomberg since 2006 as a reporter and editor and has also won a George Polk Award. And he is the author of “The Seven Sins of Wall Street: Big Banks, Their Washington […]
Bloomberg’s Micklethwait on layoffs, reorganization
Bloomberg News editor in chief John Micklethwait sent out the following email to the staff on Thursday: To All Bloomberg Editorial & Research: As a newsroom, we have learnt a lot over the past 12 months. At our best, we have been unbeatable. Look at the way we covered Covid and markets, or at the way […]
Bloomberg News is laying off about 100 editorial staffers
Bloomberg News is laying of approximately 100 editorial staffers, reports Steven Perlberg of Business Insider. Perlberg reports, “Two sources told Insider that they were bracing for about 100 editorial cuts. The layoffs were said to have included editors and were believed to be concentrated in Europe. “A Bloomberg Media spokesperson declined to comment. “The layoffs come amid […]
