Insider’s Lopez joins others suspended by Twitter owner Musk

Linette Lopez

Insider columnist Linette Lopez, who has spent years aggressively covering Elon Musk’s businesses, including documenting alleged safety lapses at Tesla, has been suspended by Musk’s Twitter, reports Noah Kirsch of The Daily Beast.

Kirsch reports, “Lopez told The Daily Beast she received no explanation for her suspension, nor information about how long the ban will last. She said she hadn’t tweeted details about the location of Musk’s private jet—his stated rationale for other suspensions—but instead had been cataloging what she considered his hypocrisy over doxxing and targeting private citizens.

“I was just trying to highlight the fact that he talks about bullying and doxxing and all this stuff…And he’s a pro at it,’ she said. ‘He harassed me back in 2018, he talked shit about me in the court of law, he sued my source. Like, I’ve been through the ringer with this guy. Nothing he does

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Dawn Wotapka’s Media Movers: Kiplinger Retirement Report’s David Crook

David Crook’s savvy approach to financial journalism has a new home, as he works innovations into Kiplinger’s Retirement Report.

David Crook is one cool guy. His journalism resume is supplemented by diverse interests that make for great conversation, including map freak, dog walker and canoeist. (And yes, that’s a two-volume Oxford English Dictionary right behind him in the photo.) Investigations involving soggy nursing home mac and cheese? He’s down for that, too. (Read on.)

He downplays what he’s accomplished as a journalist; he helped launch The Wall Street Journal’s popular Weekend Journal and Sunday Journal back when daily newspapers reigned supreme.

Those are laurels any of us would be proud to rest on. But not David. While some veteran journos struggle to reinvent themselves in a post-print world, David deftly pivoted. Faster than you can say “deadline,” he co-founded DCReport.org, wrote for real-estate site StreetEasy and recently took the

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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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Insider promotes two to executive editor

Team!

I am excited to announce two big promotions in the newsroom that will help us both grow Insider’s massive reach and retain our most loyal audience.

Olivia Oran is now our Executive Editor of Off-Platform Audience, overseeing social, partnerships, and content strategy. Insider’s massive reach spans platforms including Facebook, Google, Apple, MSN, and Yahoo. Olivia will now manage a global team of editors and producers who are responsible for packaging, pitching, and distributing our stories to these audiences. She will also work closely with our business teams to develop external partnerships and execute growth strategies.

Olivia was previously our head of content strategy, and before that led our subscriptions strategy in the newsroom. Olivia also oversaw a large team of reporters and editors covering finance, real estate, investing, markets, healthcare, legal and energy. Before Insider, Olivia was at Reuters where she covered Wall Street.

Lisa Ryan is

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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.

Rebecca White

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