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.

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

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.

Malsky

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.