Wall Street Journal reporter Rod James has left the publication to become senior editor for private equity coverage at PitchBook. He has been covering private equity, limited partners and fundraising ...

Longtime business journalist Kathleen Howley, who was covering insurance for Bankrate.com, was among the layoffs this week at the personal finance site. Before Bankrate, she was a senior reporter at ...

Chester Dawson has been named Bloomberg News senior editor for global business coverage for the Asia Pacific region. Dawson has been senior editor for autos, airlines and space coverage since March ...

Sarah Scire of Nieman Lab interviewed Tristan Werkmeister, who joined Reuters as the newsroom’s first social video reporter in January. Here is an excerpt: SARAH SCIRE: How “first” is this position?

Bron Maher of A Media Operator writes about the launch of a print magazine by TheStreet.com. Maher writes, “The first edition of TheStreet’s magazine, centered on investing legend Warren Buffett, is ...

Ryan Faughnder, senior editor for Hollywood industry coverage at the Los Angeles Times, is leaving the paper for another job in journalism. He also wrote the weekly entertainment business newsletter ...

The Wall Street Journal has started a video series called “Ask a Millionaire.” It’s hosted by Gunjan Banerji. “I’ll be sitting down with millionaires and billionaires from all walks of life for roving ...

Fast Company has hired Rebecca Heilweil as a senior writer. She will start later this week. Heilweil will be reporting on the technology industry broadly, including artificial intelligence, technology ...

Jason Zweig of The Wall Street Journal writes about the paper’s former personal finance columnist, Jonathan Clements, who died last Sunday at the age of 62. Zweig writes, “When Jonathan started ...

dMost metropolitan daily newspapers expanded their print sections to include a business news section in the 1980s, following in the footsteps of the New York Times, which created the first standalone ...

Deborah Solomon of The New York Times sent out the following: Patrick McGroarty is joining the Business desk as a new economics editor. Patrick joins us from The Wall Street Journal, where he spent 16 ...

Tech journalist Alex Heath is leaving The Verge and launching a podcast for Vox Media with brand strategist Ellis Hamburger. Called “Access,” the weekly show will focus on the tech industry’s inside ...