Media Moves

July 21, 2023

Nikki Ogunnaike is the new editor in chief of Marie Claire; she starts August 8. Ogunnaike will lead the editorial strategy for print, digital, experiential and social for the publication. She joins the Marie Claire team after nearly three years as senior digital director at Harper's Bazaar, where she covered culture and style. Before that, she held director and editor positions at the likes of GQ, Elle, Glamour and InStyle. 

New York magazine has named Sara Holdren theatre critic. She will write for both the print publication and Vulture. Holdren previously served as New York’s theater critic from 2017 to 2019, during which period she received the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. She is the co-founder of the theater project Tiltyard, and in 2019–2020, she served as the artistic director of Shakespeare Academy @ Stratford.

Forbes has named Jabari Young as senior editor, ForbesBLK. Young was previously a senior writer at Forbes covering business and before that covered sports business at CNBC. He has also previously worked at The Athletic as an NBA/Spurs beat reporter and has covered the Spurs for The San Antonio Express-News before that.  

POLITICO has added two senior reporters in Sacramento, California:

• Melanie Mason has joined the team as senior political reporter covering politics, power and influence in Los Angeles. She was previously a state and national politics reporter at the Los Angeles Times, and before that spent nearly six years covering the state capital in Sacramento.
• Jeremy B. White has taken on a new role as a senior reporter covering the intersection of politics and policy in the California legislature, including the influence of organized labor and ballot initiatives. He has has co-authored POLITICO's California Playbook for the past five years, and before that worked at The Independent as West Coast correspondent.

ProPublica has announced the promotions of two staff to assistant managing editors:

• Sarah Blustain has been upped to assistant managing editor after spending the past two years directing the Local Reporting Network. She joined ProPublica from Type Investigations, where for seven years she spearheaded longform investigative projects as deputy editor and executive editor.
• Talia Buford has also been promoted to assistant managing editor. She was previously ProPublica's first-ever talent development director and before that served as a reporter, covering the lax enforcement of environmental policies from Flint, Michigan, to Alaska to Salem County, New Jersey. 

Sarah Schweppe has joined VOX as deputy style and standards editor. Previously, Schweppe served as a senior copy editor for BuzzFeed News and is also an adjunct instructor at New York University. Prior to BuzzFeed, she spent two years as an assistant editor at The Cheat Sheet.

Mirror US, which is set to launch in July, has named Joshua Taylor as deputy editor. He has been with the Daily Mirror for more than six years, holding various roles, including online news reporter, assistant news editor, deputy news editor, associate news editor and assistant editor, digital.

Jason Wells is the new managing editor of daily news at the LAist. He was previously the executive editor of news at BuzzFeed, where he has worked for more than eight years. Before that, Wells spent 18 years at the Los Angeles Times in various positions.

Michael Brady has been promoted to senior editor at Automotive Dive. He will report on how electric and autonomous vehicles, software, new business models, and policy and regulation are changing the automotive industry. Brady was previously a senior editor at Smart Cities Dive and has been on staff since 2022. Prior to that, he spent nearly three years at Modern Healthcare. 

Susanna Vogel has joined Industry Dive as a reporter covering healthcare with a focus on staffing and labor. She joins the outlet from Morning Brew, where she was an HR reporter for nearly two years. Prior to that, Vogel was an associate consultant at DCI Consulting Group, Inc.

Silicon Valley Business Journal has tapped Andrew Mendez as a reporter covering startup, venture capital, and small business. He spent the past year as a reporting fellow at TechCrunch and before that interned at KUNR Today radio.  

CoinDesk reporter Eliza Gkritsi now covers the crypto and artificial beat as senior reporter. She joined the outlet in 2021 and has since covered data mining. Prior to that, Gkritsi was a reporter at TechNode and a journalism intern for WikiTribune.

The Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal has reassigned reporter Caitlin Anderson to cover commercial real estate. Since joining the outlet in 2022, she has covered technology, startups, residential real estate and health care. Prior to that, Anderson spent two years as community editor for the Edina Sun Current.

Jackie Snow has joined The Messenger as an artificial intelligence and tech reporter. She has previously served as an associate editor, artificial intelligence at MIT Technology Review and worked as an associate video producer at Fast Company. As a longtime freelance writer, Snow has been published in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, and others.

The Information has tapped Stephanie Palazzolo as a reporter helming a newsletter on artificial intelligence,  how AI is changing industries, boosting some companies and maiming others, and upsetting the power balance in the technology sector. Palazzolo joins The Information from Insider, where she pioneered its coverage of a new crop of AI startups. She is also a former tech banker at Morgan Stanley.

Austin Metz has  joined The Holland Sentinel as a reporter on the business and development beat. He started at The Sentinel as a freelancer in 2016 before working at the paper full-time for nearly two years, then returning as a freelancer in 2022.

NPR has promoted Kelley L. Dickens to deputy executive producer of "Morning Edition" She joined NPR in 2020 as a supervising producer and before that worked as an assistant news director and news director at WBND-LD ( ABC) in South Bend, Indiana.

Adam Sabes has been named digital reporter at FOX News. He joined the network in 2021 as a writer and before that worked as an assistant editor at Campus Reform. Prior to that, Sabes spent less than a year as a war room analyst for America Rising Corporation.

CNN in Washington, D.C., has tapped Piper Hudspeth Blackburn as a breaking news reporter. She was previously with Law360 and before that worked at the Associated Press out of Louisville, Kentucky.

PJ Randhawa has joined WMAQ-TV (NBC) in Chicago as a consumer investigative reporter. She most recently worked at KING 5 in Seattle, where she was a race and equity reporter.  Randhawa has also previously served as lead investigative reporter at KSDK-TV (NBC) in St. Louis, Missouri.

Shelbey Roberts has joined  WCSC-TV (CBS) in Charleston, South Carolina,  as a morning co-anchor. She will anchor alongside co-anchor Katie Kamin on the morning newscast. Roberts joins the station from WMBD in Peoria, Illinois, and has also worked at WTGS in Savannah, Georgia.

Colorado Public Radio has promoted Alexandra Scoville to audience editor, upped from digital news producer. She has been at the station since 2018 and before that worked for the Denver Post for almost a year.

Ashlyn Webb has joined WFTV-TV (ABC) in Orlando, Florida, as an investigative reporter. She was previously the weekend evening anchor WMAZ-TV (CBS) in Macon, Georgia, and had been at the station since 2019 when she joined as an intern.   

July 14, 2023

The Messenger has recently added two journalists to its team: 

• Joining as a reporter covering breaking business news is William Gavin. Most recently, Gavin was a part-time assignment editor for WTNH-TV (ABC) in New Haven, Connecticut. He holds a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in journalism from Quinnipiac University where he also worked at Ability Media and The Quinnipiac Chronicle.
• Claire Cameron is now a breaking news editor for the science and technology desk at The Messenger. She arrives from Inverse, where she was most recently a managing editor but also worked as a senior science editor when she joined in 2019.

Ethan Fuller will soon take over the position of sports producer at The Boston Globe where he has been a sports correspondent since October 2019. Fuller was previously a writer and social media manager at BasketballMews.com for almost three years. During his time at Boston University, he was also a co-sports director responsible for the coverage of Boston University’s basketball teams.

Aiyana N. Ishmael is now an associate editor at Teen Vogue after spending the last two years as an editorial assistant at the magazine. Her articles have also been published in The Wall Street Journal, Grazia USA, Journey Magazine, Fase Magazine, Beauty Within Magazine, and many more.

POLITICO has appointed Mohar Chatterjee as a reporter and will be covering AI and technology. She has been at the magazine since June 2022 as fellow and was previously a senior research and data fellow for the Brown Institute for Media Innovation.

On July 10, Sudiksha Kochi started a new role at USA Today as a Congress, campaigns and democracy reporter after spending the last years as a fact-check reporter. Kochi initially joined the newspaper in May 2021 as a Universal Now intern. Prior to joining USA Today, she was a news editor at Fourth Estate.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal has hired Erin Edgemon as a business editor. She arrives from the Phoenix Business Journal where she spent almost three years as a managing editor. Edgemon work also appeared in Austin Business Journal, AL.com, The Murfreesboro Post, Shelbyville Times-Gazette and many others. 

The Sacramento Bee has appointed Michael McGough to be their new assistant local news editor. McGough has been with the newspaper since he joined as an intern in December 2015 and had been a freelance reporter for the last seven years and a half. Before joining The Sacramento Bee, he was a sports editor at The State Hornet.

After six years at The Washington Post as a business reporter, Hamza Shaban has been hired at Yahoo Finance to be a reporter. Prior to joining the Post in 2017, Shaban spent over two years at BuzzFeed as a technology policy reporter.

The Wall Street Journal has announced the addition of Leo Lord-Jones as a senior supervising producer based in Singapore. Lord-Jones previously spent eight years at Sky News and was most recently an Asia Producer based in Beijing China. His other work experience includes NBC News, Financial Times, Press Association and Vice News. 

J.D. Duggan has joined the Minneapolis/ST. Paul Business Journal as a staff reporter covering manufacturing, technology, startups and health care. Duggan has spent his whole career so far covering everything in Minnesota and was most recently an economic development reporter at Finance & Commerce.

Bloomberg News has announced that Pat Regnier is the new editor of Markets Magazine. He originally joined Bloomberg Businessweek in 2016 as the editor of the finance section. Before joining Bloomberg News, Regnier had spent 14 years at Money Magazine; six as a senior editor and editor-at-large and eight as a features editor.

Derek Brower has been named U.S. political news editor at the Financial Times based in New York. Brower has been with the Times since February 2020 and was, up until taking that new role, a U.S. energy editor and the editor of the Energy Source newsletter.

CNN has promoted two correspondents in two of its bureaus: 

• Eva McKend has been promoted to correspondent covering national politics for CNN and will remain based in Washington. McKend has been with CNN since September 2021 as a national politics correspondent and previously worked as a congressional correspondent at Spectrum.
• CNN’s Los Angeles bureau announced they have promoted David Culver to senior national correspondent after he spent the last four years as an international correspondent. Before joining CNN, he was an anchor and reporter for six years and a half at NBC Universal.

Jenna Fink is now a sports anchor and reporter at KVOA-TV (NBC) in Tucson, Arizona. She arrives from KHSL-TV (CBS) and its sister station KNVN-TV (NBC) both in Chico, California, where she spent the last two years as a sports director. 

Fox-affiliated stations KSAZ-TV and KUTP-TV both in Phoenix, Arizona, have promoted Steve Levi to the position of vice president and news director. Levi has been with the stations since 1994 and has held many roles, most recently as an assistant news director.

Joe Cowan has been promoted to news director with the CBS affiliate WHIO-TV in Dayton, Ohio. Cowan arrives from WSB-TV (ABC) in Atlanta, where he was a managing editor. He will take over is new role soon as his start date is set for mid-July.

WERO-FM (Bob 93.3) in New Bern, North Carolina, has named Ryan Stevens as their new assistant program director and midday host. Stevens returns to the station for which he previously hosted the night show while also hosting during the afternoon for the now-defunct WXQR-FM (Rock 105). 

June 30, 2023

Sarah Ball has been named editor in chief of WSJ. Magazine, retaining oversight of Style News. She has been at the magazine since 2018, when she joined as digital director. Prior to that, Ball had a career in magazines that included stints as executive digital editor and editorial director at GQ, deputy digital editor at Vanity Fair, and culture reporter and editor at Newsweek. In the past year, she led the launch of WSJ. Magazine's Style News desk.

Newsweek has promoted Batya Ungar-Sargon to editor of the Opinion team. She was previously a deputy editor at Newsweek and has also written for The New York Times, the Washington Post, and Foreign Policy. Ungar-Sargon is also the author of “Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy."

Christopher Kirkpatrick has joined the Fresno Bee as senior editor. Most recently, Kirkpatrick was deputy director of Content Development at Consumer Reports, where he led the team responsible for the outlet’s enterprise and investigative journalism. He has previously served as senior news director at the Detroit Free Press, and the Sunday editor at The Charlotte Observer.

ProPublica has welcomed Jennifer Smith Richards to its Midwest newsroom as investigative reporter, effective June 14. Smith Richards is a ProPublica Distinguished Fellow since 2021, and joins the ProPublica newsroom from the Chicago Tribune, where she has been a reporter since 2004. Prior to that, she was an education reporter for the Savannah Morning News, The Observer-Dispatch, and The Herald-Dispatch.

South Carolina’s largest newspaper The Post and Courier has promoted an editor in chief and added an executive editor: 

• Autumn Phillips has been promoted to the newly created position of editor in chief and will take on her new role officially on August 1. Philips spent the last two years as an executive editor with the newspaper which she joined in 2018 as a managing editor.
• Also starting on August 1st is Jeff Taylor who will take over Autumn Philips’ role as an executive editor. The award-winning newsman was most recently the vice president and executive editor for news and investigations at USA Today.

Sharif Durhams has been named managing editor of news at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He is a veteran journalist who was most recently a deputy managing editor at the Washington Post whose responsibilities include multiple breaking news desks, including the general assignment team, Morning Mix and newsrooms in Seoul and London. Prior to his time at the Post, Durhams was a leader on the global digital programming team at CNN.

Fashionista has hired Brooke Frischer as a full-time writer. She joined the site as an editorial intern in June 2022 and eventually became a contributor. Before that, she was a freelance fashion editor at FLASH Magazine Official.

The New York Times has added two new editorial assistants to its Opinion team:  

• After spending the last year and a half as a photo director at Vox magazine, Madi Winfield has joined The New York Times as an editorial assistant of Opinion’s audience team. Winfield already worked in audience, research and digital production with The Dallas Morning News, Politico Europe and Dow Jones just to name a few.
• Isaac Scher also joined Opinion at The Times as an editorial assistant. He most recently was a contributing writer at Jewish Currents from March 2022 until June 2023. Scher also previously was an editorial and research assistant for New York Times columnist Zeynep Tufekci.

The Wall Street Journal has announced two leadership staff moves:

• Charles Forelle has been named deputy editor in chief. For the past five years, he has served as the finance editor. Since joining the Journal in 2002 as an intern, Forelle has been a reporter in Boston, Brussels and London and has served as Europe markets editor and Europe finance editor.
• Phil Izzo is joining the Managing Editor’s Office as associate managing editor. He was previously the head of Audience Engagement, where he expanded the Journals' capabilities on newsroom data and SEO. Izzo joined the paper in 1999 as a news assistant for the overseas copy desk.

CNBC has tapped Morgan Chittum as investing reporter. She joined the network from Insider, where she has covered crypto since early 2022. Prior to that, Chittum spent a year at Blockworks as a reporter covering crypto markets. 

The Wall Street Journal also announced several staff updates across the organization:

• Joshua Kirby is now an economics reporter in Barcelona. Previously, he covered the luxury beat for Dow Jones Newswires.
• Julie Steinberg now covers global metals and mining, based in London. Previously she covered large European investors and their bets.
• Visual editor Peter Santilli’s portfolio has expanded to include both Markets and Business News.

Rosa O’Hara has joined 9fin as a reporter covering private credit. She was the co-founding editor of Noema Magazine and before that served as an editor of Global Opinions at The Washington Post. O'Hara has also worked at HuffPost as an editor of the World vertical.

Forbes has added Chris Dobstaff as an associate editor for its newsletter. Dobstaff arrives from McClatchy where he spent almost ten years in various roles with many of its publications. He started his career as an editorial director at ACRN in September 2010.

Bloomberg News has added two reporters to its newsrooms: 

• Maia Spoto will join Bloomberg Law next month as a reporter mostly covering courts in Los Angeles. They recently were graduated Northwestern University with a bachelor’s degree and majored in journalism and global health studies. Spoto was most recently an audience engagement producer at The Texas Tribune.
• Bloomberg Government recently welcomed Jalen Brown as a reporter who mainly focuses on Congress, finance and policy. Brown arrives from CNN where he interned as a digital writer for the past nine months. 

Jennifer Smith has been promoted to news director at WLEX-TV (NBC) in Lexington, Kentucky. Smith has been with the station since October 1999 when she joined as a Producer and was most recently an assistant news director. Between April 2013 and August 2019, she also served as an executive producer at WLEX-TV.

WBNG-TV (CBS) in Johnson City, New York, has hired a news director and Tanya Cleary Motsay joined the team. She spent the last six years and a half as a news producer at WNEP-TV (ABC) in Scranton, Pennsylvania, a role she also held for three years at WBRE-TV (NBC) in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

After spending the last nine months as an assistant news director at WTIC-TV (Fox) in Hartford, Connecticut, Dana Rosengard has been appointed to be the news director of the station. Before joining WTIC-TV, Rosengard was a managing editor for both WLBZ-TV in Bangor and WCSH-TV in Portland both NBC affiliates in Maine. 

ABC News has announced leadership staff updates at three of its bureaus:

• Bonnie Mclean has been named director, Los Angeles bureau chief. She was most recently the deputy bureau chief at the bureau and has been at ABC News for nearly 25 years.
• Dimitrije Stejic has been named director, London bureau chief. He has been an integral part of the international news team for more than 30 years, first working in the field covering the war in Bosnia when he joined ABC News in 1992
• Andrea Owen is now executive director, deputy Washington, D.C., bureau chief.  A 30-year veteran of ABC News, she has been a consistent contributor on both the editorial side and operational side of the business.

KION-TV (CBS, Fox, Telemundo) in Monterey, California, has hired Austin Castro as a reporter.  Most recently, Castro was a contracted host and producer at ABS-CBN Corporation. Prior to that, he was a reporter at Sinclair Broadcast Group in Eureka, California.

Micah Wilson has joined KCEN-TV (NBC) in Waco/Temple/Killeen, Texas, as a morning anchor of "Texas Today" with Jasmin Caldwell. She joined the team in Central Texas from TEGNA sister-station KFSM-TV in Fort Smith, Arkansas, where he was an anchor/reporter.

June 16, 2023

Lilli Petersen has joined HuffPost as news editor on the National & Politics desk. She joins the outlet from the now-defunct BuzzFeed News, where she was a news editor since early 2023. Prior to that, Petersen spent more than five years at Elite Daily in a variety of news positions, including senior news editor.    

People magazine has tapped Kelly Martinez as a TV writer, and covers the world of TV for the print magazine and digital platforms. Previously, Martinez was a freelance writer and has written TV and movie articles for The Daily Beast, WIRED, Primetimer, Wondermind, Alternative Press Magazine, Fandom, and more.

Sarah Fortinsky has joined The Hill as a breaking news reporter. She was previously a desk assistant at CNN and had been on staff since 2020. Prior to that, Fortinsky was a teaching assistant for Albert Hunt at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Los Angeles Times has added two reporters to its newsroom: 

• Carly Olson is now covering the consumer economy as a reporter for the newspaper she previously interned in 2021. Olson spent the last year at The New York Times as a reporting fellow. Her articles also appeared in The Guardian, Architectural Digest, Oprah Daily, and much more.
• The LA Times also added Marisa Gerber as an enterprise reporter and will focus on high-impact narrative journalism to capture the realities and stakes of a changing economy as part of the business team. Gerber will more specifically cover immigration, automation, the housing shortage, the fraying of community ties and the lingering effects of the pandemic and everyone’s perspective on those matters.

Monica Campbell has joined The Washington Post as an editor in Audio and will mostly work with the “Post Reports” team. Campbell has extensive experience in media and work for over 20 years reporting and editing stories for broadcasts and digital platforms. She previously spent over nine years as a senior reporter and editor at Public Radio International.

Telegram & Gazette has hired Tommy Cassell as a sports reporter covering the Worchester Red Sox, the Triple-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox. He will also cover local high school and college sports teams in the area. Cassell was most recently a senior multimedia journalist at The MetroWest Daily News where he spent almost seven years.

Juliet Schulman-Hall has been appointed as an enterprise reporter at MassLive.com in Northampton. She returns to MassLive.com as she worked for two months with the media in 2022 as a general assignment reporter after graduating from Smith College. 

The Messenger has announced the addition of two reporters and has named a head of sports:

• James LaPorta has joined the recently launched media as a national security reporter and will also cover military affairs. He was most recently a contributing writer with Rolling Stones and his articles also appeared in The Associated Press, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, The Washington Post and many more.
• The Messenger also added Matthew Holt as a politics reporter to its team. Holt arrives from the National Journal where he was a staff correspondent for Hotline for the past four years. After graduating, he interned at NBC News and moved on to be a news associate at CNN.
• Dan Kaufman has been named the head of sports with the news outlet. Kaufman spent the last five years at The Athletic as an editorial director. Before joining The Athletic, he also spent almost nine years and a half at ESPN as a deputy editor and senior deputy editor.

The Denver Post has added Sarah Kelly to its newsroom as a deputy sports editor. Prior to joining the newspaper, Kelly was a copy editor at Sports Illustrated. She also covered sports at The Washington Post and SB Nation over the last few years.

Molly Geary has joined the sports business news site Sportico as a staff editor. Geary was previously a college sports editor at Sports Illustrated where she spent almost nine years and handled college sports editor, associate producer and news writer duties.

Business North Carolina has named Chris Roush executive editor for digital. He spent the past four years as the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University, and is also the founder of Talk Biz News, a site for news about the world of business journalism. Roush also previously spent 17 years at the School of Media and Journalism at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.  

Joel Stinnett has been recruited by the Louisville Business First as senior reporter. He joins the paper from sister publication Nashville Business Journal, where he has been a senior reporter since 2022. Prior to that Stinnett was a healthcare and tech reporter at the Business Journal.

Inc. magazine has hired Sam Blum as a senior writer covering entrepreneurs. He spent the past two years at Morning Brew and before that spent a decade as a freelance writer for various national publications such as The Guardian, Vox, The BBC, Rolling Stone, GQ, Medium and other outlets.

Crain’s Chicago Business will soon welcome Leigh Giangreco as a reporter covering politics. She previously was a booking producer at NewsNation Network from July 2020 until June 2021. She’s also been a freelancer since 2014 and her work appeared in The Washington Post, Politico, The Guardian and Bloomberg CityLab.

Veteran technology journalist Dan Ackerman has been appointed as the new editor in chief at Gizmodo. He previously spent almost three years at the consumer technology publication CNET as an editorial director. Ackerman also was a senior managing editor between 2008 and 2020 at CBS in New York and started his career in 1995 as a radio host and producer. 

Forbes has appointed Danielle Chemtob as a staff writer and she will handle the Forbes Daily newsletter. She arrives from Axios in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she was an investigative reporter for two years. Her articles also appeared in The Charlotte Observer, HuffPost, The Wall Street Journal and many more.

Angela Yang has joined NBC News as a reporter on the culture and trends team. Young has been a reporting intern at the network since September 2022, and before that held reporting internships at The Wall Street Journal and Boston Globe Media.

NPR has announced that Scott Detrow has been named the weekend host of "All Things Considered," NPR's flagship evening news magazine, and the new co-host of the daily news podcast "Consider This." His first day on the air will be June 24. Detrow has served as White House correspondent for NPR since 2020 and co-hosts "The NPR Politics Podcast." He joined NPR in 2015, reported on the 2016 presidential election, then worked for two years as a congressional correspondent before shifting his focus back to the campaign trail, covering the Democratic side of the 2020 presidential campaign.

Rebecca Kaplan is the new producer and off-air reporter on the Capitol Hill team at NBC News. She spent the past seven years at CBS News, most recently as a campaign producer. Before that, she was an associate producer for "CBS Evening News."

ABC News has announced the addition of three new reporters to its 2024 Presidential Election coverage team: 

• Fritz Farrow has joined as a campaign producer and reporter. Farrow arrives from CBS where he was most recently a broadcast associate with CBS’ evening news. He initially joined CBS in August 2020 as an intern on “60 Minutes”.
• Currently an associate producer with the broadcaster, Kelsey Walsh has been tapped to cover the next Presidential Election. Walsh initially joined ABC News in January 2018 as a production assistant and moved on to be a political news associate in July 2019.
• Hannah Demissie is now a campaign reporter after spending the last three years with ABC News in various roles. Before joining ABC in 2020, Demissie interned as part of the political Unit at CBS News.

Julee McArdle has been promoted to the position of program director at KCEZ-FM (Results Radio Group) in Chico, California. McArdle originally joined the station in 2011 as a midday host and advance mixer. In 2021, she became an assistant program director for KCEZ-FM and another Results Radio Group in Chico, KBQC-FM.

KTVT-TV (CBS) and the independent KTXA-TV both in Fort Worth, Texas, have appointed Meagan Harris as their news director. Harris will also oversee the CBS Texas streaming channel and CBSTexas.com as vice president of news. She arrives with extensive experience and has been a news director with two NBC stations over the last eight years and a half and also has over ten years of experience in various producing roles.

Sara Cardona has joined WTVJ-TV (NBC) in Miami as a sports anchor and reporter. Cardona previously spent nearly two years at WTVQ-TV (ABC) in Lexington, Kentucky, as a sports anchor. She has pretty much covered sports her whole career since she started in October 2016 as a sideline reporter at Middle Tennessee State University.

June 2, 2023

10 Magazine USA is set to launch in September 2023. It will be published twice a year and will focus on fashion, contemporary art and beauty.  The following editorial staff has been announced:

• Dora Fung as editor in chief. She was previously the interim fashion director at The Cut/New York magazine. Before that, Fung was market director at Yahoo Style and market and beauty director at CR Fashion Book.
• Bifen Xu as managing editor. She was most recently the publishing audience development manager at McKinsey & Company and before that worked for Yahoo for seven years and launched the Yahoo Style vertical in 2014.
• Celia Ellenberg as beauty director at large. She joins the staff after nearly eight years at Vogue, where most recently she led the beauty and wellness category in the Americas. Prior to that, Ellenberg was a senior beauty editor at Style.com.
• Maura Egan is now travel editor at large. Most recently, she served as editor in chief of PRIOR and before that worked as executive editor at Departures magazine, deputy editor at The New York Times, and lifestyle director at HuffPost.
• Diana Tsui is now digital editor. She has been a creative consultant since 2021 and before that worked as editorial director at MedMen and senior market editor at The Cut.

Jason P. Dinh is the new climate editor at Atmos. He will report, commission, and edit stories about climate, culture, creatures and environmental justice. Dinh spent the past several months as associate editor of Eos at the American Geophysical Union, and before that spent several years as a National Science Foundation graduate fellow at Duke University.  

The New York Times has added a deputy editor and a correspondent to its National Desk team: 

• Joining as a deputy editor for the National Desk of The Times is Henri Cauvin. He is now editing coverage of crime, legal issues, immigration and the Mid-Atlantic. Cauvin has most recently been a senior editor at ProPublica.
• Michael Corkery will also cover crime and public safety as a correspondent for the National Desk. Corkery has been with The New York Times since 2014 as a reporter and spent over eight years and a half at The Wall Street Journal before joining The Times.

The Athletic has announced a new leadership team and structure to help deliver the news to sports fans: 

• Lisa Wilson is now responsible for culture, opinion and talent development as an editorial director and will aim to attract the best journalists in the business but also make sure everyone has an opportunity-filled career.
• Moving into the new position of editorial director is Paul Fichtenbaum. Fichtenbaum will oversee investigative, enterprise and standards and help to uncover and expose abuse, misconduct and discrimination in the sports world. He has been with The Athletic since 2017 when he joined as a chief content officer.
• Leon H. Carter has added editor at large duties but will also continue to work with the talent and development team. Carter will also develop and managed the first internship program that will launch in 2024. His work experience also includes ESPN, New York Daily News, Newsday Media Group and Louisville Courier Journal. 

Skift has welcomed Lex Haris as managing editor. He joins the travel industry site from CBSNews.com, where he was vice president of editorial for four years but left the position in early 2022.  Before that, Haris was the executive editor of Money and Investigations at CNN and prior to that worked as senior editor at Money Magazine and Institutional Investor.

Cheyenne Ligon has joined Pensions & Investments as a business of money management reporter, with a focus on BlackRock, the world’s largest asset investment manager. Most recently, Ligon was a U.S. regulatory reporter at CoinDesk and had worked for the outlet since 2021.

CNN Business has recruited Luciana Lopez as managing editor. She joins the network from USA Today, where she was deputy managing editor of politics and elections since early 2022. Before that she was a project editor at USA Today and a segment producer at MSNBC.  

Bloomberg News has added two news reporters based in California: 

• Now part of the power weather climate and natural disasters team, Michelle Ma is covering clean technology as a reporter for the news service and will be based in Los Angeles in mid-June. Ma was previously a climate technology reporter at Protocol.
• Eliyahu Kamisher is now covering all things California as a reporter at Bloomberg News. He was a transportation reporter from November 2021 until he joined Bloomberg News at The Mercury News and East Bay Times. 

Marina Perelman has been promoted to vice president of news at KNBC-TV (NBC) Los Angeles. She has been the assistant news director for KNBC since 2019 and has also served as managing editor and executive producer for the station’s 11 p.m. newscast. Perelman started with NBCUniversal Local in 2005 as the producer of the 11 p.m. newscast at KNTV in San Jose.

KVEA-TV (Telemundo) in Los Angeles has tapped Miguel “Mike” Gaytán as vice president of news. Previously, he was the vice president of news for Telemundo 20 (KUAN) in San Diego. Before that, Gaytán worked at Telemundo Arizona for five years and held newsroom leadership roles including VP of news and news director.

KPRC-TV (NBC) in Houston, Texas, has promoted a manager and added two anchors: 

• After 18 years with the station as a news producer, Erica Young has been promoted to the position of manager of news special projects and producer development. Prior to joining KPRC-TV in 2005, Young spent four years and a half at KPLC-TV (CBS) in Lake Charles, Louisiana, as a News producer and executive producer.
• Candace Burns has officially been named the 4 p.m. newscast co-anchor. She joined the station in March 2023 after spending the last eight years and a half as an evening anchor at WTVR-TV (CBS) in Richmond, Virginia.
• Justina Latimer joined as a traffic anchor on May 1st from WSMV-TV (NBC) in Nashville, Tennessee. Latimer was a reporter at WSMV-TV from March 2021 until she joined KPRC-TV and previously was a traffic anchor at WDVM-TV (Nexstar) from 2016 until 2018.