CoinDesk markets reporter Lyllah Ledesma is leaving the news organization after four years for a new opportunity. She is currently based in Europe. Ledesma previously interned for Dow Jones. She holds a master’s degree from New York University in Business and Economics and an undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of East Anglia ..read more

Allie Garfinkle of Fortune, who writes its Term Sheet newsletter, was interviewed by SBS Communications about her job. Here is an excerpt: A number of the tech industry’s top journalists have previously been Term Sheet writers. How are you making the newsletter your own? What changes can we expect? My joke about this: I was ..read more

STAT News executive editor Rick Berke posted the following: Dear Readers, Please bear with me as I brag about two of STAT’s most accomplished (and humble) reporters: Casey Ross and Bob Herman. This week they won the Batten Medal, one of the most prestigious awards in American journalism, for their series revealing an explicit strategy by the ..read more

Al Mannarino, senior podcast producer at Adweek, has left the news organization. He has been in that role since November 2021. Before that, he spent a year as the producer of the “The Business of Marketing Podcast” at Adweek. Mannarino also worked as a photographer for NBCUniversal and senior content manager for Social Media Week ..read more

Neal Koch has been hired by the Orange County Business Journal as its editor in chief. He previously was a consulting editor and executive editor of the Pacific Coast Business Times from October 2022 to June 2023. Before that, he was deputy editor and contributing editor at the Los Angeles Business Journal. Koch has also been ..read more

Minneapolis Star-Tribune economics reporter Kavita Kumar has been named the paper’s community engagement director. In her new role, Kumar will lead the effort to solicit and feature commentary pieces and content from Minnesotans across the geographic, demographic and political spectrum. Kumar also will serve as a voice for the community in the Star Tribune’s opinion journalism. She ..read more

Sarah Scire of Nieman Lab writes about CalMatters recent acquisition of tech news site The Markup. Scire writes, “One specific catalyst was seeing Markup stories resonate locally — especially in California, home to many of the tech companies that The Markup covers. (Syed hailed editor-in-chief Sisi Wei‘s ‘visionary leadership’ in finding partners for The Markup’s stories ..read more

Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy and tech news site CNET are creating a new retail media model, reports Kathryn Lundstrom of Adweek. Lundstrom reports, “The electronics retailer and the publisher are combining their ad inventory, allowing advertisers to buy across Best Buy Ads’ retail media network and alongside CNET’s tech-review-focused editorial content and measure whether ads seen ..read more

James Nelson, business editor at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, was installed as the new president of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing during its annual conference board meeting on April 20 at the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University’s downtown Chicago campus. Nelson succeeds Desiree Hanford, a Northwestern ..read more

The Wall Street Journal received its first Peabody Award nomination for its video documentary, “Shadow Men: Inside Wagner, Russia’s Secret War Company.” The 40-minute documentary goes deep inside the lethal global expansion of the Russian private military company Wagner—tracing the group’s evolution from a small, guns-for-hire operation into a sprawling network of businesses that has been active on ..read more