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Cision's Media Updates - Business & Financial
Cision Media Updates have moved! Media updates from Cision can now be found at the new and enhanced Cision Navigator, http://navigator.cision.com. Green business staff writer exits Los Angeles Times New art director joins Crain's Detroit Business Jeff Johnston has joined Crain's Detroit Business as its new art director after Nancy Clark left her position as graphics editor. The magazine provides information on business, finance and industry in the Detroit metro area. For more information, call 313-446-6000. New to Cision! Experts: Economy is a blog from the National Journal covering economic news and policy. The blog features the opinions and commentary of leading economic thinkers and advisers and is edited by John Maggs, 202-739-8416, who is also a staff correspondent for the National Journal. To learn more, visit http://economy.nationaljournal.com. FOX Business Network launches online-only show Lindgren sheds a positive light on the economic downturn Hugo Lindgren has joined Daily Intel as a blogger. He pens The Downturnaround, a regular feature that covers encouraging economic news and developments. Lindgren is also the editorial director of New York magazine. For more information, call 212-508-0700. CalgaryInc magazine ends publication in March CalgaryInc, a magazine that provided innovative methods of enhancing businesses and work experiences, will end publication in March. The magazine targeted business owners and employees throughout the province of Calgary. For more information, call 403-240-9055. Economic belt tightens at Bloomberg, many staffers out Staff writer signs off at BusinessWeek Matt Vella has left his post as staff writer BusinessWeek's Web site, as well as blogger for Games, Inc. He covered innovation and design for the publication, and had been with the company since January 2006. For additional information, call 212-512-2511. Globe and Mail adds business reporter Nathan Vanderklippe, 403-209-4776, has joined The Globe and Mail in Toronto as a business reporter. He was previously a reporter for the National Post in Toronto. For additional information, call 416-585-5000. Business Insider offers readers 3 sites in 1 Wisconsin magazine switches up newsroom The newsroom at In Business: Madison magazine has had staff changes, including an addition and departure. Joe Vanden Plas rejoined the staff as the features editor, a position he held from 2000 to 2005. He previously was the editor of Wisconsin Technology News. Jody Glynn Patrick was named to the editorial director spot in addition to her current role as publisher. Leaving the publication is editor Heather Skyler. She previously served as the features editor and before that as a staff writer for the magazine. For more information, contact 608-204-9655. Texas business journal closes doors The Rio Grande Valley Business Journal recently shuttered its doors and is no longer serving the McAllen, Texas, area. The bi-weekly publication covered the local business environment and served as a hub for business news in two growing metropolitan areas. New York Times adds to sports business coverage Sallaberry joins Fund Action Fund Action has tapped Libby Sallaberry, 212-224-3624, to be a reporter. She previously worked as a reporter at Credit Investment News, a position she had held since September 2008. To learn more call 212-224-3300. Bloomberg On the Money leaves the airwaves Bloomberg On the Money is now off the air. The show featured Bloomberg reporters and anchors featuring the trends and themes that emerge in the trading day. The lineup of guests included analysts, fund managers and corporate executives. To learn more call 212-318-2000. InvestmentNews loses reporter Andrew Coen recently left his post as a reporter for InvestmentNews for a freelance career. He also previously wrote for Institutional Investor and the Nassau Herald. He now covers asset management, commercial real estate, politics, sports and investment trends as a freelancer. To learn more about InvestmentNews call 212-210-0100. Blog Spotlight! The Ticker is a blog from U.S. News & World Report covering stocks and Wall Street. Posts discuss trends in the major stock market indices: the S&P 500; Dow Jones; Nasdaq and others. To learn more visit www.usnews.com/blogs/the-ticker/index.html. Bloomberg News adds Friedman as investing editor New to Cision! Product Management Meets Pop Culture is a blog that covers product lifecycle management and aims to help product management professionals learn how to manage and promote a product by understanding pop culture and entertainment. The blog is written by Chris Cummings. To learn more, visit http://christophercummings.com/blog. Meyer promoted to managing editor of SmartMoney Business desk at Arizona Daily Star shifts There will be several changes to the business desk starting Feb. 16 at the Arizona Daily Star. Former business editor, Tim Steller, 520-573-4663, will serve as a senior business reporter covering enterprise. Norma Coile, 520-573-4102, formerly Sunday editor, will take over the role of business editor. Ric Volante, 520-573-4129, will join the business desk, where he will work as a business reporter primarily focusing on Raytheon missile systems. He most recently served as a senior investigative reporter and a computer-assisted reporting coordinator. Also, in March, Gabriela Rico, 520-573-4232, will take on the role of team leader for breaking news in the Metro section. She currently serves as a business reporter covering cross-border trade and mining. To learn more, please call 520-573-4220. Su relocates to London for Dow Jones Sherry Su recently relocated to the London bureau of Dow Jones Newswires. She serves as a reporter covering the oil markets, particularly North Sea crude oil and products. She was previously based in Singapore focusing on Asian oil product markets. For more information, please call 201-938-5400. Former Porfolio editors launch recession blog Former Conde Nast Portfolio assistant managing editor, Laura Rich, and former lifestyle editor, Sara Clemence, got together after losing their jobs and started a new blog following the everyday effects of the recession. Recessionwire serves as a user's guide for the current economic downturn and features news, advice, tips and cultural insight. Lynn Parramore also serves as a co-editor. For more details, please visit www.recessionwire.com. Business editor exits Orange County Register Veteran business editor and writer passes away at 84 The Navigator regrets to inform its readers that long time business editor Daniel Seligman has passed away. Seligman was a contributing editor for Forbes magazine since 2001. He previously spent 47 years at Fortune magazine in various editorial and reporting capacities, and is perhaps most known as editor of the popular Keeping Up column. Crain's New York welcomes new Web editor Brian Tracey, 212-210-0798, has joined Crain's New York Business as Web editor. He most recently served as a senior editor for MSNBC.MSN.com. Before that, he was a news editor for The Wall Street Journal Online and American Banker. For more information, call 212-210-0100. 4 magazines merge into Sign & Digital Graphics American Banker advances editor Marc Hochstein, 212-803-8887, was recently promoted to assistant managing editor of American Banker. He previously served as mortgages editor, a position he had held since 2002, and before that, he was the senior editor of the now-defunct Grid. He also worked at American Banker covering mortgage from 1998 to 2000. For further information, contact 212-803-8200. New spot for digital signage industry Members of the digital signage industry now have a hub to keep up-to-date on industry news. DigitalSignage.com recently launched as an Internet magazine geared exclusively to industry professionals. It offers readers original editorial content and business resources, and allows them to voice their opinions on the site's content. For further details, contact 425-829-1106. Executive editor out at Money King adds to coverage for Wall Street Journal Neil King, 202-862-9206, will now cover domestic policy for The Wall Street Journal in addition to his energy coverage. The extent of his new coverage is yet to be determined, but for now, he is focusing on OPEC, the economic stimulus, trade policy and related issues. He is based in the Washington bureau. For more information call 202-862-9200. Schneider exits Bloomberg Television Mike Schneider has left Bloomberg Television and is no longer the host of Night Talk, Evening Edition and Venture. Night Talk and Evening Edition are now off the air but Venture will continue with a new, yet unnamed host. Venture features interviews with entrepreneurs and focuses on small business issues. For more information call 212-318-2000. Former Portfolio editor lands at Silicon Alley Insider Dan Colarusso, who recently left his post as the managing editor of Portfolio.com, has landed at Silicon Alley Insider as the managing editor. Before that he worked as the metro editor and business editor for the New York Post. He has previously written for Barron's, Institutional Investor, Investment Dealers' Digest and The New York Times. To learn more call 212-488-0522. Moody joins Wall Street Journal Guerrero named assistant business editor Isaac Guerrero, 815-987-1371, was recently appointed to the position of assistant business editor for the Rockford Register Star in Illinois. He joined the paper in 1998 and previously served as an assistant metro editor and a county news reporter for the publication. He also formerly worked as a general assignment reporter at Press Publications in Elmhurst, Ill. To learn more, call 815-987-1200. Pfeifer gets new beat at Los Angeles Times New editor at North American WINDPOWER The winds are changing at North American WINDPOWER, as editor Jennifer Delony departed the magazine. Mark DelFranco has taken over the position. The magazine is published for professionals in the wind energy business and covers business and financial news as well as technological innovations. For further details, call 203-262-4670. New to Cision! @bmorrissey is a blog covering advertising. Blogger Brian Morrissey discusses trends in the advertising industry, including branding and Internet marketing. Morrissey is also the digital editor for Adweek and also writes the blog AdFreak. To learn more, visit http://bmorrissey.typepad.com. Publishers Weekly sees staff cuts WSJ's Johnson moves to Beijing Ian Johnson, correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, has returned to the paper's Beijing bureau. He most recently served as bureau chief in Berlin since 2001. Before that he was the acting bureau chief and deputy bureau chief in Beijing. For more information, call 212-416-2000. Show, Emmy Award-winning producer cut from Comcast Network Plain Dealer promotes editor The Plain Dealer in Cleveland has promoted acting business editor Randy Roguski, 216-999-4886, to the business editor role. He previously was the deputy business editor at the publication and also served as the health and medicine editor, as well as the science editor. For further details, contact 216-999-5000. California Energy Markets hires editor California Energy Markets is welcoming Mavis Scanlon as the associate editor. She previously was a reporter for the East Bay Business Times, which is now a part of the San Francisco Business Times. Contact 415-963-4439 for more information. Business reporter moves to New York desk of Associated Press Reuters gets new London correspondent The London bureau of Reuters recently tapped Tom Freke as a restructuring correspondent, covering companies experiencing financial difficulty due to credit conditions. He previously worked as the editor of Loan Radar. To reach the New York offices of Reuters call 646-223-4000. Holloway leaves Outlook Outlook recently lost editor in chief James Holloway and a replacement has not yet been named. The magazine is written for investors looking for information and advice for managing their portfolios, taking advantage of investment strategies, choosing mutual funds, picking stocks and much more. For more information call 212-438-2000. Business reporter departs News & Record Lanita Withers is no longer a business reporter and retail columnist for the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C. Her column, Savvy Shopper, is now being penned by online news editor Michael Fuchs, 336-373-3465. He also blogs on Bargain Blog. To learn more call 336-373-7000. Huffstutter switches focus at LA Times Two new blogs from Crain's Detroit Business Crain Communications, Inc. has launched two new blogs. Small Biz, Big City focuses on the challenges of small business in Detroit and southeastern Michigan and is written by Nancy Kaffer, 313-446-0412, who is also a reporter with Crain's Detroit Business. For Immediate Release covers news in Detroit and focuses on various industries within the city. The blog is written by Bill Shea, 313-446-1626, also a reporter with the magazine. To learn more, visit www.crainsdetroit.com or call 313-446-6000.
Posted on: 2/19/2009
Posted on: 2/18/2009
Environmental business staff writer Abigail Goldman has left her position at the Los Angeles Times. Goldman previously covered retail and Wal-Mart, and joined the paper in 1993. Also exiting the paper was staff writer Ted Rohrlich, who covered federal and local courts and other legal affairs. He previously covered investigative news and had worked for the paper since 1982. For further details, call 213-237-5000.
Posted on: 2/18/2009
Posted on: 2/18/2009
Posted on: 2/17/2009
FOX Business Network has launched its first Internet-only show, FoxBusiness.com LIVE, which reports on breaking financial news. Hosts Jenna Lee and Connell McShane conduct interviews with business leaders, politicians and experts. Viewers can also interact and ask questions in real time. For more information, call 212-301-3000.
Posted on: 2/17/2009
Posted on: 2/17/2009
Posted on: 2/16/2009
Many business reporters, anchors, producers and editors at Bloomberg have said goodbye to the network, due to recent economic cutbacks. Gone from Bloomberg Television are Leslie Gersing, segment producer; producers Peter Speciale and Carmen Roberts; and Rhonda Schaffler, anchor. For Bloomberg Radio Network, news editor and producer Roslyn Barreaux is out, as well as Patrick O'Neill, executive producer; Lisa Kaplan, segment producer; Jessica Moore, producer; Bill Small, news editor; reporters Ray McNally and Daniel Thomas; Mitch Lebe, anchor; Erickson Blakney, reporter and anchor; and Bloomberg on the Weekend host Nancy Blazquez. For more information, call 212-318-2000.
Posted on: 2/16/2009
Posted on: 2/16/2009
Posted on: 2/13/2009
Business junkies now have a go-to site that aggregates information from three sources. The Business Insider recently launched under Silicon Alley Media, Inc., ownership. It shares news from the Silicon Alley Insider, Clusterstock and The Business Sheet, including financial, entertainment, green technology and digital industry coverage. Dan Colarusso, who most recently served as the managing editor of Portfolio.com, was brought on board as the managing editor of the site. Call 646-747-0245 for more details.
Posted on: 2/13/2009
Posted on: 2/13/2009
Posted on: 2/12/2009
Ken Belson, 212-556-7237, has jumped to the sports desk at The New York Times as a reporter covering the business of sports. He had previously covered energy and utilities for the newspaper since June 2008. His coverage now focuses on players, teams and leagues from a broad business perspective. He also covers the companies that try to capitalize on the sports industry. To learn more call 212-556-1234.
Posted on: 2/12/2009
Posted on: 2/12/2009
Posted on: 2/12/2009
Posted on: 2/12/2009
Posted on: 2/11/2009
Josh Friedman will join Bloomberg News on Feb. 23 as an investing editor. Friedman was previously the deputy markets editor at the Los Angeles Times, and also worked as a news editor and assignment editor. He joined the paper in 1990. Prior to this, he worked at several regional newspapers in California, serving as a copy editor at The Orange County Register and features editor at the Daily Republic in Fairfield, Calif. For more information, call 212-617-2300.
Posted on: 2/11/2009
Posted on: 2/10/2009
Tedra Meyer, 212-373-9342, was recently promoted to managing editor of SmartMoney. She most recently served as the deputy managing editor, a position she held since joining the staff in June 2008. No replacement will be named for the position of deputy managing editor. Meyer previously worked as the features editor for Adweek and as an associate editor for TWICE - This Week in Consumer Electronics. For more details, please call 212-830-9200.
Posted on: 2/10/2009
Posted on: 2/10/2009
Posted on: 2/10/2009
Posted on: 2/9/2009
Diana McCabe has left her position as business assignment editor at The Orange County Register, where she oversaw real estate, small business and the economy. She had been with the publication since 1989. Julie Gallego, 714-796-7929, is now the business and finance team leader and the main business contact at the paper. For additional information, call 877-469-7344.
Posted on: 2/9/2009
Posted on: 2/9/2009
Posted on: 2/6/2009
National Business Media, Inc. has rolled Sign Business, Digital Graphics, WRAPS and SignTech into the newly titled Sign & Digital Graphics. The publication now covers the creation and installation of signage and graphics and is intended for sign and digital graphics professionals. The content covers commercial signage, wide-format printing, electric signs and letters, architectural signage, electronic displays, vehicle wraps and graphics, new technology, fabrication and more. To learn more, contact 303-469-0424.
Posted on: 2/6/2009
Posted on: 2/6/2009
Posted on: 2/5/2009
Ellen Stark recently left her post as an executive editor for Money, where a replacement will not be named. Diane Harris, 212-522-1511, remains the executive editor for the magazine. Time, Inc., Money's owner, recently announced company-wide staff cuts. Money offers sophisticated coverage in all aspects of personal finance for individuals, business executives and personal investors. It also provides solid strategies for intelligent investing and effective saving, as well as advice relating to retirement, taxes, money management, healthcare plans, maximum value spending, electronic commerce investments and educational features. For more information call 212-522-1212.
Posted on: 2/5/2009
Posted on: 2/5/2009
Posted on: 2/5/2009
Posted on: 2/4/2009
The Wall Street Journal recently welcomed Emma Moody, 212-416-3045, to the staff. She serves as the markets editor for the Money & Investing section. She oversees coverage of stock, bond, currency and other markets. She also coordinates market coverage with Dow Jones Newswires and the markets pages of the online edition of the paper. Moody formerly served as an editor at Bloomberg News and covered corporate finance, credit markets and subprime mortgages. She also served as a technology and telecommunications editor for Bloomberg News after joining in January 1996. For more details, call 212-416-2000.
Posted on: 2/4/2009
Posted on: 2/3/2009
Staff writer Stuart Pfeifer, 213-237-7674, has moved to the business desk at the Los Angeles Times. He previously covered law enforcement and focused on the sheriff department for the Orange County edition of the paper. He also covered local and county government. The Los Angeles Times is a daily paper and covers region, national and international news, as well as produces several regional editions of the paper. For more information, call 213-237-5000.
Posted on: 2/3/2009
Posted on: 2/3/2009
Posted on: 2/2/2009
Due to company-wide restructuring, staff reductions have been announced at Publishers Weekly magazine. Gone from the publication are editor in chief Sara Nelson, who leaves after four years in the position, and Daisy Maryles, who most recently served as executive editor. Brian Kenney, 646-746-6756, has been promoted to the role of editorial director for the Reed Business Information publishing group, which includes School Library Journal, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly. For additional information, call 646-746-6758.
Posted on: 2/2/2009
Posted on: 1/30/2009
Restructuring at the recently renamed The Comcast Network (formerly CN8) led to the end of Money Matters Today. The regional show offered a fast-paced look at financial markets, stocks and industry trends. The show's business director, executive producer and host, Mary Caraccioli, is an Emmy Award-winning television journalist who launched Lou Dobbs Financial Report. Caraccioli is no longer with The Comcast Network. For further information, contact 856-638-4000.
Posted on: 1/30/2009
Posted on: 1/30/2009
Posted on: 1/29/2009
Chris Kahn, 212-621-1680, recently jumped to the New York desk of the Associated Press as a reporter covering oil prices, gas consumption and renewable energy focusing on solar energy. He most recently worked in the Phoenix bureau as a business reporter. He also previously worked out of Roanoke, Va., as a correspondent for the news service. To learn more call 212-621-1500.
Posted on: 1/29/2009
Posted on: 1/29/2009
Posted on: 1/29/2009
Posted on: 1/28/2009
P.J. Huffstutter has left her position as Midwest bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times and is now a national reporter for the paper. She focuses on the impact of the economy on people across the country. The Chicago bureau where she was based has now shut down. Prior to becoming bureau chief, she covered broadband issues, Hollywood and technology. For more information, call 213-237-5000.
Posted on: 1/28/2009