Al Mannarino, senior podcast producer at Adweek, has left the news organization. He has been in that role since November 2021. Before that, he spent a year as the producer of the “The Business of Marketing Podcast” at Adweek. Mannarino also worked as a photographer for NBCUniversal and senior content manager for Social Media Week ..read more

Neal Koch has been hired by the Orange County Business Journal as its editor in chief. He previously was a consulting editor and executive editor of the Pacific Coast Business Times from October 2022 to June 2023. Before that, he was deputy editor and contributing editor at the Los Angeles Business Journal. Koch has also been ..read more

Minneapolis Star-Tribune economics reporter Kavita Kumar has been named the paper’s community engagement director. In her new role, Kumar will lead the effort to solicit and feature commentary pieces and content from Minnesotans across the geographic, demographic and political spectrum. Kumar also will serve as a voice for the community in the Star Tribune’s opinion journalism. She ..read more

Sarah Scire of Nieman Lab writes about CalMatters recent acquisition of tech news site The Markup. Scire writes, “One specific catalyst was seeing Markup stories resonate locally — especially in California, home to many of the tech companies that The Markup covers. (Syed hailed editor-in-chief Sisi Wei‘s ‘visionary leadership’ in finding partners for The Markup’s stories ..read more

Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy and tech news site CNET are creating a new retail media model, reports Kathryn Lundstrom of Adweek. Lundstrom reports, “The electronics retailer and the publisher are combining their ad inventory, allowing advertisers to buy across Best Buy Ads’ retail media network and alongside CNET’s tech-review-focused editorial content and measure whether ads seen ..read more

James Nelson, business editor at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, was installed as the new president of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing during its annual conference board meeting on April 20 at the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University’s downtown Chicago campus. Nelson succeeds Desiree Hanford, a Northwestern ..read more

The Wall Street Journal received its first Peabody Award nomination for its video documentary, “Shadow Men: Inside Wagner, Russia’s Secret War Company.” The 40-minute documentary goes deep inside the lethal global expansion of the Russian private military company Wagner—tracing the group’s evolution from a small, guns-for-hire operation into a sprawling network of businesses that has been active on ..read more

The National Association of Hispanic Journalists is seeking to start a business journalism task force. Jeff Kauflin of Forbes and Joel Marino of Business Insider are leading the effort. A town hall will be held on May 1 at 5:30 p.m. at The Wall Street Journal offices in midtown Manhattan. To register, go here. Space ..read more

A project between Type Investigations and Quartz, as well as a Bloomberg Businessweek article about Dollar General working conditions have won 2024 Hillman Prizes. The award for reporting on racial and economic justice went to Aurora Almendral for “Merchants of Care,”  a project of Type Investigations and Quartz. The COVID-19 pandemic created an unprecedented staffing crisis ..read more

Investment Week has promoted Christian Angeloni to special projects editor. He will locus on investigations, long-form stories and multimedia content. Angeloni previously was a senior reporter for Investment Week. He also worked at Bonhill Group for four years as a reporter. He holds a bachelor’s degree from University of Westminster and a master’s degree from ..read more