Owram named lead for Bloomberg equities industries Americas team

Kristine Owram is the new team leader for equities industries Americas team at Bloomberg overseeing stock market coverage. Owram has been with Bloomberg for more than three years, joining as Canadian stock market reporter and then serving as cannabis reporter before being promoted to her current post of team leader. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Owram […]

How business journalists joined the NYSE floor 25 years ago

Bob Zito, a former executive vice president of the New York Stock Exchange, writes for ROI-NJ about how business journalists got on the NYSE floor 25 years ago today after a conversation with CNBC’s Jack Reilly. Zito writes, “The next step was contacting the business networks. “The two significant ones in 1995 were CNBC and CNNfn. At the time, […]

Bartiromo to celebrate 25th anniversary of reporting from NYSE floor

Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo will celebrate the 25th anniversary of her being the first journalist to report from the New York Stock Exchange floor on Tuesday. Sara Nathan of the New York Post reports, “The Fox Business vet was the first to go to Wall Street to report on TV when she was only 27 in 1995. […]

Bloomberg seeks a commodities reporter in Brazil

Bloomberg News is looking for an experienced and energetic reporter to cover crucial suppliers of raw materials — including Vale, the world’s biggest iron ore supplier, and Petrobras, Brazil’s state-run oil giant. You will shape coverage across Bloomberg’s terminal, print, radio and television platforms and collaborate with journalists across Brazil, elsewhere in Latin America and […]

Bloomberg reporter Ward moving to cover currencies and bonds

Jill Ward, a reporter for Bloomberg News covering the British economy, is moving to the markets team to cover bonds and currencies. Her new beat starts next week. Ward has been on the economics beat since April 2015 based in London, focusing on the Bank of England, trade, the U.K. and the Western European economies. […]

Forbes hires Haverstock for money & markets team

Forbes has hired Eliza Haverstock to be an assistant editor on its money and markets team. She started this week. Haverstock was a financial writer covering venture capital, startups, and private equity for PitchBook in Seattle. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia where she majored in history and economics. Previously, Haverstock worked as a […]

CNBC’s Quayle lauded for contributions to business journalism

Veteran CNBC producer Matthew Quayle, co-creator of “Squawk Box” and “Squawk on the Street,” spoke with Dean Rotbart of 2020 Business News Visionary Awards about his career. “Thanks in large part to Matt Quayle, ‘Squawk Box’ reigns today as the longest-running business show on cable television, and ‘Squawk on the Street’ has bragging rights as the […]

Indictment alleges writer paid to promote a bitcoin

A federal indictment alleges that a disgraced lobbyist paid a writer to promote a bitcoin in publications such as Investor’s Business Daily, reports Will Sommer of The Daily Beast. Sommer reports, “Much of the SEC complaint focuses on articles that appeared to have been written by Peter J. Ferrara, a senior fellow at the conservative Heartland Institute. […]

Financial Times names Platt U.S. markets editor

Eric Platt, U.S. mergers and acquisitions correspondent at the Financial Times, has taken over as U.S. markets editor at the organization. Platt will be working with U.S. capital markets reporter Joe Rennison, markets reporter covering U.S. rates, FX and Latam Colby Smith and U.S. capital markets correspondent Richard Henderson. He was also U.S. capital markets […]

How business reporters got to the NYSE trading floor

Bob Zito of  Zito Partners recalls when he was executive vice president of the New York Stock Exchange and convinced it to allow reporters on the trading floor. Zito writes, “Since 1987, the NYSE had let credentialed television crews come into the Exchange and tape pieces (or do some live shots) from what was called the […]