Tag: business

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

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.

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

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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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