Malsky joins Weather Data team at NY Times

Bea Malsky

The New York Times has tapped Bea Malsky to serve as a graphics/multimedia editor on the Weather Data team. In her new role, Malsky will “help gather, maintain and build systems for handling real-time and historic meteorological data for coverage of day-to-day weather and extreme weather events,” a Times release said.

“She will also help pursue enterprise stories to illuminate weather trends, dissect extreme-weather events and explain weather concepts to readers.”

Malsky joined the Times in 2020 to work with Interactive News on the pandemic data. She was part of the team that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

She also built tools and data pipelines for campaign finance data analysis, live election results and wildfire tracking. She served as a backend software engineer at New York Times Games.

Prior to the Times, she worked as a lead developer at civic tech consultancy at DataMade.

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Bloomberg names Harrison its Latin America executive editor

Caroline Gage, Bloomberg senior executive editor of the Americas, sent the following announcement:

I’m thrilled to announce that Crayton Harrison will become Executive Editor for LatAm, based out of Mexico City.

Crayton brings a wealth of experience to his new role, including stints in four different bureaus since Bloomberg hired him in 2007 from the Dallas Morning News. After reporting on telecom from Texas, he moved to Mexico City in 2009 and covered Carlos Slim for four years. He then became a team leader, running Health from New York and Media & Telecom from Los Angeles.

Since 2018, Crayton has run our global business coverage in the Americas as managing editor. From that perch, he oversaw our Covid coverage in the region, launched a handful of digital verticals and drove reporting on everything from car shortages to the antics of Elon Musk. He holds degrees in Spanish and journalism

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SF Examiner hires Pimentel as senior tech reporter

Benjamin Pimentel

The San Francisco Examiner has hired Ben Pimentel as a senior technology reporter.

He will start Dec. 19.

Pimentel has spent the last two years at Protocol, the tech news site started by Politico that is shutting.

“I will be covering pretty much everything I reported on for Protocol — crypto, fintech, blockchain — and the broader tech industry,” he wrote on LinkedIn.

Pimentel previously covered enterprise technology and Silicon Valley, focusing on major players in corporate IT and trends shaping the industry, including cloud computing, AI, blockchain, and software-as-a-service for Business Insider.

He previously was head of content and communications at BlueVine in San Francisco.

Pimentel has also worked at NerdWallet as a writer covering small business and as a tech reporter for MarketWatch.com. He also covered tech for the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Why Murdoch might change the top WSJ editor

Matt Murray

Steven Perlberg of Insider examined a potential change at the top of The Wall Street Journal, where speculation is that editor in chief Matt Murray might be replaced with Sunday Times editor Emma Tucker.

Perlberg writes, “The Journal has also spent the last few years retooling its digital strategy, which irked reporters who have been asked to write about trending topics more frequently, as Insider reported. Like many news leaders, Murray faced staff pressure on diversity and inclusion issues in the wake of the racial reckoning across corporate America following the murder of George Floyd.

“But Murdoch has little patience for newsroom revolts, and Murray has had the difficult task of maintaining support of both journalists at the paper and News Corp management. One Journal staffer said that Murray had the backing of the newsroom. Another said Murray was largely ‘inoffensive,’ but that he seemed to prefer

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ACBJ’s Skoog to retire at end of the year

Joanne Skoog

Joanne Skoog, who has worked at ACBJ for more than 35 years, will be retiring at the end of the year.

Skoog joined ACBJ in 1987, starting as the real estate reporter at the year-old Charlotte Business Journal. She moved up the ranks to news editor, then managing editor and was named editor in 1991. She held that post for 10 years.

During her tenure, the Charlotte Business Journal was a SABEW Best in Business General Excellence winner and was awarded numerous N.C. Press Association awards.

She joined the corporate staff in 2001 as an editorial consultant, working on market support, training and development. She was named director, editorial operations in 2016, adding roles as the content team’s liaison for legal matters with Advance legal and digital publishing with the product team.

Before joining ACBJ, Skoog worked at newspapers in upstate New York and central California.

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Washington Post hires Rempfer as GA weekend editor

Kyle comes to GA from Military Times, where he was a reporter and editor for five years. He began there as a general assignment reporter and before long was covering the Army, leading accountability reporting efforts and spearheading investigative projects. He won the Military Reporters & Editors Association’s domestic coverage award for his work in 2021.

Before Military Times, Kyle spent nearly five years training for and serving in the Air Force’s Special Tactics ground force. He was attached to an Army Green Beret team in Afghanistan and worked out of a strike cell in Iraq. Kyle has a master’s degree in national security policy from Georgetown and a bachelor’s from the University of Maryland, speaks some Russian and is a master scuba diver.

Kyle lives in Arlington, where he enjoys walking his husky, practicing jiu jitsu, cooking and watching horror movies with his wife. He also likes to read

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Stanley, former Milwaukee paper biz editor, is retiring

George Stanley

George Stanley, who was business editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel and then business editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is retiring from the paper, where he had been editor in chief.

Corinne Hess of the Journal Sentinel writes, “During his announcement to staff, Stanley, 65, said he made his decision after the Journal Sentinel’s parent company, Gannett, announced last month it would make additional cuts company-wide.

Devi Shastri, health and medicine reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and president of the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild, said Stanley worked to preserve journalism in Milwaukee and Wisconsin throughout his career.

“‘He tried to save jobs and find creative solutions in partnership with us,’ Shastri said. ‘Throughout his career, his focus has been supporting his employees, professionally and personally. His leadership will be missed.’”

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CNBC changes producers for business day programming

Dan Colarusso, senior vice president of CNBC Business News, and Craig Bengtson, vice president of business news programming, sent out the following on Tuesday:

The success of CNBC’s Business Day programming begins and ends with strong, optimistic leadership across our newsroom. In an effort to continue to develop fresh, content ideas in new places and offer growth opportunities to our colleagues, we are excited to announce the following re-assignments and promotions among our producer ranks:

Anne Tironi has been named Senior Executive Producer in charge of “Squawk Box.” A confident and firm leader, Anne has had a significant and positive impact on this iconic program for more than 16 years with much of it coming from her steady hand in the control room. A tremendous collaborator and communicator, Anne is one of the few leaders who is adept at managing both content and people equally well.

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Semafor climate and energy editor Spindle departs over Chevron concerns

Semafor climate and energy editor Bill Spindle has left the news startup due to concerns about Chevron advertising around his content, reports Loree Seitz of The Wrap.

Seitz reports, “‘I’m not saying they or Chevron improperly influenced the climate coverage. I could ‘call it as I saw it,” Spindle posted on Twitter. ‘What concerned me was my belief that it was not appropriate to have Chevron advertising on the same page as stories on climate coverage, particularly as the dominant advertiser.’

“Spindle’s exit comes just six weeks after the launch of the digital media company ‘based on journalistic transparency’ in October under the leadership of former New York Times media reporter Ben Smith and former Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith.

“After sharing his concerns with the publication’s leadership, Spindle notes that Semafor removed the Chevron advertisements from his emailed climate newsletter, but the Chevron ads never left his stories,

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Biz journalist Leung hired as VP of content at ClickUp

Maggie Leung

Maggie Leung — most recently executive editor at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and founding vice president of content at NerdWallet — is joining ClickUp as vice president of content and organic growth in January.

ClickUp is a productivity platform that serves teams. It integrates a variety of workplace tools — including project management, document collaboration, spreadsheets, goals, time-tracking and chat — in one place. Its enterprise users include Google, McDonald’s and Netflix.

The startup has raised $535 million, at a valuation of $4 billion. Investors include Andreessen Horowitz, where Leung has been executive editor of Future.com. The site served startup builders and others in the tech community.

Leung said: “I learned a good deal at a16z, but I really missed startup work. And it was easy for me to get behind ClickUp, because robust tools help teams collaborate more effectively and creatively around the world and across

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