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The New York Times appoints new reporter on Business to cover health care
We’re pleased to announce that Christopher Rowland, a masterful veteran of business-related health care coverage, is joining The Times. In his new post, Chris will be responsible for a vast canvas of the health care industry, which makes up about one-fifth of the nation’s economy.
The New York Times names new business correspondent in London
Posted Monday, August 24, 2026 10:49 am We are very happy to announce a new hire in London for the Business desk’s international team. James Paton, an experienced business journalist in London, will be our business correspondent covering a range of industrial companies with a particular focus on autos, aviation, defense and chemicals.
New role for Sui-Lee Wee at The New York Times
Posted Tuesday, July 7, 2026 10:21 am We are very happy to announce that Sui-Lee Wee is our new Asia business correspondent, covering corporate and economic stories across the region, with a focus on China. Sui joins Business from International, where she was the Southeast Asia bureau chief overseeing coverage of 11 countries. A versatile reporter and writer, she moves seamlessly from one major story to the next.
Jenny Gross and Lisa Friedman join Business at The New York Times
We are very happy to announce two hires in London for the Business desk’s newly relaunched international team. These represent a crucial next step in our plans for more ambitious and fulsome international coverage of business and economics. Jenny Gross is our new business and economics correspondent in Europe covering a range of consumer companies. She will also continue her sharp focus on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
The New York Times names new international editor on Business desk - Editor and Publisher
I’m pleased to announce a new role for Rich Barbieri in Business. In a few months, Rich will move to London to become international Business editor, overseeing our coverage in Europe and Asia. In his new role, he will help reimagine and direct our coverage of companies, markets and economics in Europe. Our new Asia editor, who I expect to announce shortly, will report to him. Rich has been our editor in Seoul since 2023.
The New York Times: Kim Bhasin joins Business as retail correspondent - Editor and Publisher
We are thrilled to announce that Kim Bhasin is joining Business as a retail correspondent. Kim joins us from Bloomberg, where he spent the last decade reporting for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek magazine in New York. He covered luxury brands, sportswear companies and the business deals of celebrities and athletes. Last year, he wrote features about a historic crisis at Nike and the takeover of the trading card industry by the Fanatics billionaire Michael Rubin.
Kalley Huang returns to The New York Times - Editor and Publisher
We’re delighted to welcome Kalley Huang back to The New York Times. She started this week as a tech reporter in San Francisco covering Apple. Kalley joins from The Information, where she most recently wrote about Meta, artificial intelligence and social media. She often landed scoops and inside details, so much so that Mike Isaac once said her stories made him sweat.
The New York Times: Alex Campbell joins Business as investigations editor - Editor and Publisher
I am thrilled to announce that Alex Campbell is joining Business as our new investigations editor. Alex joins us from Bloomberg News in London, where he has for the last several years led a team of investigative reporters based in Europe. In September, a story he edited about the emails between Jeffrey Epstein and the British ambassador to Washington led to the ambassador’s firing.
The New York Times: Staff news from Business - Editor and Publisher
Earlier this year, Ben was elevated to chief economics correspondent. He’ll continue to cover the U.S. economy and economic policy. As we all know, Ben is our all-star collaborator and economics whisperer. Since joining The Times in 2017, he’s helped lead our coverage of unprecedented economic events including the pandemic. Ben is also an adjunct faculty member at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, where he teaches economics reporting.
Kimberly S. Johnson joins The New York Times - Editor and Publisher
We are delighted to announce that Kimberly S. Johnson will join Business as consumer and industries editor. Kimberly will oversee a group of reporters covering manufacturing, agriculture, retail, food and logistics, all important topics as our readers and businesses confront a new era of economic uncertainty, smaller government and possible trade wars. Kimberly was most recently deputy chief news editor at The Wall Street Journal, driving coverage across business, finance and politics.
New role for Deborah Solomon at The New York Times - Editor and Publisher
We’re thrilled to announce that Deborah Solomon is now our economics editor, with expanded responsibilities overseeing reporters in New York as well as Washington, D.C., where she already is in charge of economic policy coverage. Deborah will preside over a newly formed group of reporters, some of whom are assigned to the Washington bureau and others to Business.
The New York Times names new finance editor on Business - Editor and Publisher
We’d like to officially welcome Michael Corkery back to Business after his successful, two-year stint in National. Michael has rejoined as our finance editor and is already making an impressive transition from reporting to editing. In his first weeks on the job he has handled an avalanche of breaking news and newsy enterprise. There were the law firm stories after Paul Weiss settled with President Trump. Then there was the market swoon and Wall Street fallout. And more.
Rebecca Davis O’Brien joins Business at The New York Times - Editor and Publisher
We’re delighted to announce that Rebecca Davis O’Brien, fresh from 22 scoop-filled months on Politics, has joined the economics team on the Business desk to cover the national labor scene. Rebecca’s time on the campaign was spent largely, and memorably for readers, covering the role of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — as a Democratic presidential aspirant turned independent candidate turned Trump ally, with a recurring subtheme of his curious encounters with wildlife.
Tony Romm joins The New York Times - Editor and Publisher
We are thrilled to announce that Tony Romm will be joining The Times as our new economic policy correspondent. This is a familiar role for Tony, who covered economic policy at The Washington Post, where he broke numerous stories during both the Biden and first Trump administration. He also put together The Post’s Covid Money Trail series, which included tons of scoops on federal spending.
Jess Testa moves to media team at The New York Times - Editor and Publisher
We’re delighted that Jess Testa has joined the media team from Styles to help the Business desk cover the country’s increasingly fractured media landscape. The presidential campaign showed how people have changed the way they consume news and how varied the American media diet has become in just a few years. What people watch, listen to and read is often produced by companies outside the traditional media industry. Jess’s job is to cover the characters and companies that inhabit this new world.
Colby Smith joins The New York Times - Editor and Publisher
We are thrilled to announce that Colby Smith of The Financial Times is joining The Times as our new Federal Reserve correspondent. Colby joins the economics team after nearly seven years at The F.T., where she most recently led the paper’s coverage of the Fed and the world’s largest economy as U.S. economics editor. In that role, she also wrote about the Treasury department, International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
The New York Times: Aaron Krolik joins Business desk - Editor and Publisher
Few people come home from their day jobs, pore over terabytes of leaked data in a language they don’t speak and help win a Pulitzer Prize for it. That’s Aaron Krolik. Over the last six years, as he has developed tools and formats for the Interactive News Technology department, Aaron has on the side worked on many high-touch, award-winning stories with Business and other desks, doing data reporting, scraping websites and reverse engineering apps.
The New York Times announces new role for Emma Goldberg - Editor and Publisher
For the last two years, while many companies have returned to work in person, readers have turned to Emma Goldberg again and again to understand the future of work. Emma stepped into a critical role reporting on the workplace when “return to office” was dominating conversations around the world, and workers and managers were navigating the new work landscape as Covid waves came and went. Through it all, Emma owned her beat in her first reporting role at The Times.
The New York Times names new correspondent in Washington - Editor and Publisher
We’ve very excited to announce that Andrew Duehren of The Wall Street Journal has joined The Times as our new tax policy correspondent in the Washington bureau. Andy arrives to join our D.C. economics team after six years at The Journal, where he began as an intern in the Washington bureau before joining the congressional team covering fiscal policy.
Vera Titunik returns to Business desk at The New York Times - Editor and Publisher
I’m thrilled to announce that Vera Titunik is joining the Business department. Really, I should be saying rejoining. For the last three years, Vera has been deputy editor at Headway here at The Times, where she edited enterprise stories delving into national and community challenges and solutions. During a previous 13-year stint at The Times, Vera was an editor at the Magazine and Sunday Business editor.
Rebecca Elliott joins Business at The New York Times - Editor and Publisher
We’re excited to announce that Rebecca Elliott of The Wall Street Journal will be joining the Business desk as an energy reporter based in New York. Rebecca has covered Tesla for more than three years. Previously, she spent almost three years as a Houston-based energy reporter for The Journal, covering the shale boom and its impact on the industry and the economy.
The New York Times names new European business editor - Editor and Publisher
I’m thrilled to announce that Gregory Schmidt has become our new European business editor. Greg is ideally suited to this job. During his time in the Business department in New York, Greg distinguished himself as an editor and writer who can truly do anything and everything. He can edit news and feature stories, write news and feature stories, and help run a live blog. And he does it with grace, good humor and the necessary degree of urgency.
The New York Times names new deputy media editor - Editor and Publisher
We’re delighted to announce that Erin Mershon, a passionate and talented editor, is joining The Times as a deputy media editor. Erin comes from Stat, where she has delivered a string of agenda-setting and award-winning coverage from her perch as Washington bureau chief and associate managing editor, showing a knack for turning complicated topics into compelling stories.
The New York Times announces new role for Mohammed Hadi - Editor and Publisher
I’m excited to announce: Mohammed Hadi has become my principal deputy in the Business department. Mo has been doing the job for a while now, and so I don’t have to tell you that he is supremely suited to the gig. In this role, Mo will help me oversee the daily business report, plan coverage and coordinate with the masthead and the News desk. And Mo will continue to help develop careers. On a daily basis, Mo improves our journalism and the well-being of the Business department.
The New York Times: Kirsten Grind joins Business - Editor and Publisher
We’re delighted to welcome Kirsten Grind to The New York Times. She starts later this month as a tech investigations reporter in San Francisco. Kirsten joins from The Wall Street Journal, where she was an enterprise reporter. In her 12 years at The Journal, Kirsten routinely exposed suspect behavior, wrongdoing and raised questions about some of the most powerful players in tech and finance.
Meaghan Tobin joins Business at The New York Times - Editor and Publisher
We are very pleased to announce that Meaghan Tobin will be joining the Business desk as the Asia technology correspondent. Meaghan comes to us from The Washington Post, where she wrote about China’s growing influence from Taipei. Before that, she was a reporter at the nonprofit tech media start-up Rest of World and at The South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, where she covered news in Asia and the Pacific.
The New York Times: Laura Stevens joins Business - Editor and Publisher
We’re delighted to announce that Laura Stevens is joining The Times as a deputy technology editor. Laura joins us from The Washington Post, where she was most recently technology industry editor, helping to guide coverage of some of the biggest tech companies, including Amazon, Apple and Google. She also ran coverage of major tech news events like Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, and the social media companies’ responses to the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol.
The New York Times names new Sunday Business editor - Editor and Publisher
I’m thrilled to announce that Noreen Malone has joined Business as Sunday Business editor. Noreen comes to us from Style, where she was enterprise editor. Before joining The Times, she hosted Slate’s “Slow Burn” podcast. Noreen was features editor and then editorial director at New York magazine, where she edited stories on Harvey Weinstein and sexual harassment that won a National Magazine Award.
The New York Times: Introducing the Business Sports Pod - Editor and Publisher
We’re happy to announce that five talented colleagues who’ve done a range of impressive work on the Sports desk are joining Business. They will ambitiously examine the power, economics, institutions and personalities that drive the big-money world of sports, among other topics. Ken Belson, Joe Drape, Kevin Draper, Tania Ganguli and Jenny Vrentas recently started with us, working with Connor Ennis. We’re also pleased to have welcomed Santul Nerkar, the fellow in Sports, to our desk.
Rob Copeland joins Business at The New York Times
Ellen Pollock, Mohammed Hadi and Anupreeta Das | The New York Times We are thrilled to announce that Rob Copeland has joined Business as a reporter on the finance team, to cover banking. Rob comes to us from The Wall Street Journal, where for nine years he wrote about finance, Silicon Valley, and most recently Elon Musk.
Variant B.1.1.7 of COVID-19 associated with a significantly higher mortality rate, research shows
The highly infectious variant of COVID-19 discovered in Kent, which swept across the UK last year before spreading worldwide, is between 30 and 100 per cent more deadly than previous strains, new analysis has shown. A pivotal study, by epidemiologists from the Universities of Exeter and Bristol, has shown that the SARS-CoV-2 variant, B.1.1.7, is associated with a significantly higher mortality rate amongst adults diagnosed in the community compared to previously circulating strains.
When business as usual was turned upside down
By Alana Celii, Crista Chapman, Brent Lewis, Renee Melides, Brent Murray and Ellen Joan Pollock The New York Times | Dec 31, 2020 at 1:04 PM The condition of the global economy and workforce is easily measured in data: 82 million people around the world caught the coronavirus; 20 million in the United States were receiving unemployment benefits as of the end of November. But business is about more than data and the movement of capital and the pursuit of profit.
Why Mountain Dew Is Now Grist for Fertile Teen Gossip
In the past two weeks, the same rumor cropped up at a high school in Westfield, Ind., and about 600 miles away at a discussion group for teenage boys in Fairfax, Va. It goes like this: Drinking Mountain Dew can lower a guy's sperm count. Mountain Dew is the nation's fastest-growing major soft drink, according to Beverage Digest, an industry publication. But the rumor is also on the move: It has boomeranged across the country from Oregon to Washington, D.C., and from Texas to Montana.
Rethinking tuberculosis control by targeting previously treated individuals
Tuberculosis is now the leading cause of death due an infectious disease.1x1WHO. Global Tuberculosis Report 2017. World Health Organization, Geneva; 2017Google ScholarSee all References Urgent action with new approaches is needed to achieve WHO's elimination targets of an 80% reduction in tuberculosis cases and a 90% reduction in deaths by 2030.1x1WHO. Global Tuberculosis Report 2017.
Cypress CEO Blasts Sister Who Asked for Diverse Board
It isn't every day that the CEO of a major high-tech company calls a nun's views "immoral." And it seems just as unlikely that his slap would result in an outpouring of support from executives and investors nationwide -- for him. But that's exactly what happened when Cypress Semiconductor Corp. Chief Executive Officer T.J. Rodgers took a Catholic nun to task for suggesting he put qualified women and minorities on his...
Obama Has Aged, Just Not As Much As Our Cover Predicted
When President Obama won a second term in 2012, Bloomberg Businessweek put him on the cover—the way we imagined he might look after four years of battling Congress, watching over the economy, and everything else we couldn’t begin to predict at the...
Welcome to the Year Ahead
Caution is the takeaway from Bloomberg Businessweek’s fourth Year Ahead issue. Each fall we try to prepare readers for what lies around the corner—with the caveat, of course, that even deeply researched forecasts aren’t always right.
One Sept. 11 Lesson: A Little Bit of War Goes a Long Way
There’ve been nine anniversaries of 9/11, each with a variable mixture of grief and pride. The grief needs no explanation; it’s for the 3,000 lives lost and the shattering of innocence.
The ‘Anti-Business’ President Who's Been Good for Business
A little after 2:30 p.m. on Monday, June 13, we sat down with President Obama in the Oval Office, which is exactly the range of yellow, taupe, and beige we all know from television but smaller than expected. It’s an old building, after all.
Bloomberg, The Boy Wonder And The Name On The Building
On Thursday, Josh Tyrangiel announced his resignation from Bloomberg News, where he was editor of the Bloomberg Businessweek magazine and oversaw strategic thinking for the rest of its news operations as chief content officer. His departure shows the degree to which Bloomberg LP founder and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has put his mark on the company since his surprise return as CEO late last year.
The 2015 Jealousy List
Donât we live in an enlightened age of buying stuff, where hyper-informed consumers and corporate responsibility ensure you neednât ever feel bad about a cheap shirt?
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