Glenn Ruffenach, who wrote the “Ask Encore” retirement column for the Wall Street Journal, has retired.

In his last column, Ruffenach writes, “This is my final column for the Journal. At age 70, I’m hanging up my laptop, as it were, to start a new job: caring full time for my wife. I certainly never imagined this (and neither did my wife). But as privileges go, I can’t think of one I’d rather have.

“The change is bittersweet. I love journalism; I love the written word. I also have loved, for 40 years, working with my colleagues at the Journal, the most talented, supportive and honorable friends imaginable. (As an aside, my byline appears at the top of these columns. What you don’t see are the names of the Journal’s editors and their unsung efforts to shape and polish my articles and all the articles in these

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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Washington Post Opinion Editor David Shipley named new leaders in the opinion section, promoting and introducing key roles helping to drive the evolution of one of the industry’s most innovative opinions departments.

The opinion section will now have four deputy opinion editors with new or expanded responsibilities.

Karen Tumulty, deputy opinion editor and columnist, will continue to steer the Editorial Board. Before joining Opinions, Tumulty was a national political correspondent and earned the 2014 Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting.

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Duenwald and David Von Drehle will lead the editors and columnists. Duenwald joined The Post Opinions section in October as a senior editor from Bloomberg, where she oversaw the section’s U.S.-based columnists and editors. Before joining Bloomberg in 2011, she was the Deputy Op-Ed page editor at The New York Times.

 

 

 

 

 

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Bloomberg Media has tapped British mathematics professor and author Hannah Fry to front a new series for its Quicktake streaming service and bolster its slate of original shows, reports Alex Ritman of The Hollywood Reporter.

Ritman reports, “Fry, a regular on U.K. radio and TV, will host The Future With Hannah Fry, which will launch on Feb. 22 and explore science, technology and people on the ‘cusp of the most transformative breakthroughs of our age,’ according to producers. The show is set to bring subjects into sharper focus through interviews and explainers, as well as field visits with scientific experts and technology leaders in facilities around the world, exploring breakthroughs across themes such artificial intelligence, crypto, climate, chemistry and ethics.

“‘I’m genuinely obsessed with helping people better understand science and maths’ daily impact on our everyday lives, and we’re working with Bloomberg to bring that to an

Reuters has tapped Joanna Plucinska to serve as a European airlines and travel correspondent, based in London.

Plucinska will cover airlines, the travel market, tourism, aviation, sustainability and travel trends. She will also work with a team of reporters who cover aerospace, the commercialization of space and the broader transport team.

Previously, she served as a political and general news correspondent. She was a technology reporter at Politico, where she wrote and reported for its Morning Tech newsletter, and she worked freelance. She was a reporter/video producer at Time Magazine.

She interned at Columbia Journalism Review and Ottawa Life Magazine.

Plucinska has a bachelor’s degree from Queen’s University and a master’s degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

You can congratulate Plucinska on Twitter.

Craig Harris, an investigative business reporter for USA Today, has taken the company’s buyout offer and will depart on Dec. 1.

He’s been a journalist for 31 years, and he’s worked at seven daily newspapers. In 2012 and 2014, Harris was one of the lead writers when The Arizona Republic was a finalist in breaking news coverage for the Pulitzer Prize.

In 2011 and 2012, Harris won the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting presented by Syracuse University and first place in the Barlett and Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism for work on Arizona’s pension systems. In 2015, he was part of a team that won the Scripps Howard investigative award and the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) award for coverage of the Veterans Affairs scandal.

In 2017 and 2019, Harris won George Polk Awards for his reporting on state employees being wrongly fired and

Washington Post climate & environment editor Zachary Goldfarb and climate & environment deputy editor Juliet Eilperin sent out the following on Monday:

We’re pleased to announce Michael Coren is joining The Post as the writer of “Climate Coach,” a new column and newsletter that will help readers navigate the choices they face when seeking to live a more climate- and environmentally friendly life.

Michael comes to The Post from Quartz, where he was a deputy editor leading a team covering climate, technology and economics. As a reporter, his work has focused on the end of the road for traditional automakers, an emerging price on carbon, the simple math behind Elon Musk’s companies and why it’s profitable to waste solar energy. His recent Pulitzer Center-backed investigation sparked congressional hearings on how lead in aviation fuel is poisoning a new generation of Americans and allowed readers to visualize air traffic

Washington Post climate & environment editor Zachary A. Goldfarb and deputy climate and environment editor Juliet Eilperin sent out the following:

We are pleased to announce that Ana Campoy is joining the Climate & Environment department as an assignment editor. She will oversee our Climate Solutions vertical and other climate reporters who focus on innovative storytelling and broadening our audience.

Ana comes to us from Quartz, where she has led a team of international reporters covering the inner workings of the global economy. As deputy economics and finance editor, she steered coverage on an array of topics, including globalization, inflation and cryptocurrencies.

Ana started her journalism career at her hometown newspaper in Monterrey, Mexico, before covering the oil industry and national news for the Wall Street Journal. Her reporting portfolio ranged from deeply reported pieces on issues such as climate change to complex data projects to quirky features

Applications are now open to mid-career journalists for the Knight-Bagehot fellowship in economics and business journalism at Columbia University.

It offers journalists the opportunity to enhance their understanding and knowledge of business, economics, finance and technology, as well as gain a strong understanding of the business of journalism itself.

The fellowship is open to full-time editorial employees of newspapers, magazines, wire services, digital media, television and radio news organizations, as well as to freelance journalists, from anywhere in the world.

Applicants must have at least four years of business/economics/finance journalism experience and have received a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) from an accredited university.

The Knight-Bagehot fellowship is an academic program in which the fellows are enrolled in classes and receive grades for their work.

The fellowship runs during Columbia’s academic year from mid-August through May and accepts up to 10 fellows each year.

Each fellow receives free tuition, health insurance

American Banker reporter Claire Williams reviews “The Future of Business Journalism: Why it Matters for Wall Street and Main Street,” written by her former professor Chris Roush.

Williams writes, “Where did that leave people like me, at 20 years old at the University of North Carolina, walking into Roush’s business reporting class for the first time? I took business reporting and economics reporting classes with Roush, now dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University, when he ran the business journalism program at UNC.

“Sure, reporting is fun, and it might be valuable, but it’s not worth much to me if I can’t make a career out of it. Screw it, maybe I should listen to my parents and go to law school. Or worse, into public relations.

“But what sets Roush’s new book (and his classes) apart is his insistence that good journalism and