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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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.

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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.

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Lisa Ryan is

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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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.