Bloomberg Opinion hires Miranda as retail columnist
Tim O’Brien, senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion, sent out the following on Wednesday: Greetings Folks — Bob Burgess and I are pleased to tell you that Leticia Miranda will be joining Opinion as a retail columnist based in New York. Leticia has been a business and retail reporter at NBC News in New York […]
Bloomberg Opinion seeks a tech columnist
Bloomberg Opinion is looking for a talented writer ready to cover the technology industry with insight, flair and authority. We are seeking an independent and quick-thinking columnist who will play a leading role shaping our global audience’s understanding of the biggest trends, most important companies and most influential leaders in U.S. tech. Coverage would include […]
Meth starts Opinioned, an op-ed firm
Jake Meth has founded Opinioned, an op-ed writing and strategy firm for people with big ideas. He spent five years editing Fortune magazine’s commentary section, and after that worked with executives to write and publish opinion pieces with The Expert Press. Over this time, he realized he could use his skills to help leaders publish […]
Bennet becomes first American to write Economist’s Lexington column
James Bennet, senior editor at The Economist, is the new Lexington columnist. The weekly column, dedicated to U.S. politics, takes its name from Lexington, Massachusetts, the site of the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. Prior to joining The Economist in 2021 as an editor, Bennet was editorial page editor of The New York Times […]
Bloomberg Opinion’s Shipley hired by Washington Post as editorial page editor
David Shipley, the senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion, was named editor of The Washington Post’s editorial page on Thursday. Paul Farhi and Elahe Izadi of The Post write, “Deputy editorial page editors Ruth Marcus and Karen Tumulty have run the department on an interim basis for several months. “A Post spokeswoman said Shipley was unavailable for an […]
Bloomberg Opinion seeks a retail columnist
Bloomberg Opinion is looking for a seasoned journalist with a wide understanding of the consumer world and retail business. We want a columnist to cover the fast-changing consumer economy and shifting consumer experience, as well as the retail business world, primarily in the US. An ideal candidate will be familiar with American retail businesses, large […]
Larsen named global editor of Reuters Breakingviews
Reuters announced Sunday the appointment of Peter Thal Larsen as global editor of Breakingviews, the international commentary arm of Reuters News. Larsen joined Breakingviews in 2009. He led coverage of financial services from London before moving to Hong Kong as Asia Editor in 2012. There he built up the local team and launched the Asian […]
Reidy to become Bloomberg Opinion columnist
Gearoid Reidy is becoming a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. Reidy has been a Bloomberg News senior editor covering Japan equities. He previously led the breaking news team in North Asia and was the Tokyo deputy bureau chief. Reidy was also the project manager for automated journalism from July 2017 to February 2020 in Tokyo for Bloomberg. […]
Why stock market stories aren’t important to most Americans
Quinnipiac University School of Communications dean Chris Roush writes on MarketWatch.com about the overimportance of stock market stories in business media. Roush writes, “Stock market coverage is the classic story that shows the current problem with business journalism. It’s content for only those with the financial means to invest and to spend on business news content. “Slightly […]
FT columnist Dizard departs after 21 years
Financial Times columnist John Dizard has left the news organization after 21 years. He wrote a weekly column for the Financial Times called Street Talk which covers global macro investing, the political economy of currencies, energy, commodities, emerging market debt, the international and domestic credit markets, the automation of securities exchanges, and Iraqi economics and finance. Dizard […]
