Reuters seeks Fed correspondent
Reuters is seeking a journalist who is a proven news breaker and deeply sourced professional to cover the U.S. Federal Reserve from Washington. We need someone with a hefty record in delivering ahead-of-the-curve initiative reporting and agenda-setting stories, who is comfortable handling breaking news, and whose prose stands out for its clarity. The Fed is […]
More Libor charges as case expands
British authorities filed charges against three more people in the ever-widening Libor manipulation case. Manipulating the benchmark rate has been a global scandal involving several firms since July 2012. David Enrich and Margot Patrick wrote in the Wall Street Journal about the expanding nature of the probe: British prosecutors filed criminal charges against three former […]
NYTimes international biz editor to join new venture
David Leonhardt, the Pulitzer Prize-winning economics reporter for the New York Times leading a new venture for the paper, sent out the following staff announcements for that operation: Late last year, Jill announced that we would be creating a new politics-and-policy website with a focus on data, and I want to update everyone on our progress. Our […]
Bloomberg Businessweek’s six-cover story
This week’s edition of Bloomberg Businessweek rolled out with six different covers each featuring a low-paid worker in a story about raising the minimum wage. Peter Coy wrote the story: Raising the minimum wage is certain to be a wedge issue for Democrats in the midterm elections because it’s the rare redistributive measure that enjoys broad […]
No debt ceiling fight!
In one of the sanest moves in recent Congressional history, the U.S. House passed a bill to raise the nation’s borrowing limit without any stipulations attached. It’s big news considering the recent history of Congress holding the limit and investors hostage as it debates whether to pay bills its already incurred. The Washington Post had […]
The need for better local economic news
David Lieberman, the executive editor for Deadline.com, writes about the need for local media to improve their business and economics coverage. His essay won the American Institute for Economic Research’s Women’s Economic Roundtable (WERT) Business Journalism Prize. The prize awards $2,000 to the best essay on an economic or financial topic written by a current […]
The debt ceiling – again
Just when it seemed like the economy was on an up swing and recovery underway, the debt ceiling is rearing its ugly head– again. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew warned Congress on Monday that the borrowing limit needed to be increased so the government could continue to function. Damien Paletta had this story in the Wall […]
Obama focuses on the economy
In his State of the Union address Tuesday, President Barack Obama took the time to call for increasing the minimum wage, reducing the income gap and stimulating economic recovery. While the speech covered many topics, including health care and the war in Afghanistan, it’s telling that more than five years after the financial crisis, the […]
Econ reporter Rampell leaving NY Times for WaPo
New York Times business editor Dean Murphy sent out the following staff announcement on Tuesday afternoon: We are sorry to announce that Catherine Rampell is leaving The Times to become an op-ed columnist at the Washington Post. Catherine has been a member of our economics team since 2008, when she joined us from The Chronicle […]
WSJ names King global economics editor
Wall Street Journal managing editor Gerard Baker sent out the following staff promotion on Tuesday: I’m delighted to announce that Neil King has been named our new Global Economics Editor and a deputy Washington bureau chief, an important first step in a significant expansion of our already peerless economics coverage. Economics is front and center […]
