Media Moves
FORBES.COM
Investigative journalist Gary Weiss has started writing the Muckraker column for Forbes.com. The column, which debuted Oct. 17, covers international business and Wall Street. Weiss was a senior writer for BusinessWeek from 1986 to July 2004. He has also worked for Barron’s, The Hartford (Conn.) Courant and news services in Washington. He is the author of Wall Street Versus America and Born to Steal, which uncovered Wall Street’s connection to the Mafia.
FORTUNE
Katie Benner, 212-522-2026, recently announced that she left TheStreet.com to become a personal finance reporter at Fortune magazine. She has also written for CNNMoney.com and spent four years in Beijing writing for the South China Morning Post, Beijing Review, The Economist Group and Xinhau Financial Network. Fortune focuses on management and competition in companies, high-profile business executives, technology and Wall Street.
INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY
Brian Womack, 619-448-6325, recently joined Investor’s Business Daily in Los Angeles as its New America Reporter focusing on up-and-coming businesses. Womack was previously a business reporter and technology columnist for the Orange County Business Journal. Investor’s Business Daily is a national daily business newspaper aimed at senior executives, professionals and entrepreneurs, as well as individual and professional investors. The newspaper provides new management and investment ideas and stock data such as industry group rankings, relative strength, earnings per share ranking, volume percentage change and accumulation distribution.
WALL STREET JOUNRAL RADIO
Ray Hoffman will be the new afternoon drive business news anchor for Wall Street Journal Radio beginning Nov. 1. He previously served as the host of the BusinessWeek Business Report radio show. No replacement has been named. He also worked as an assignment editor for BusinessWeek magazine. Wall Street Journal Radio provides hourly business and financial news reports transmitted live via satellite 24 hours daily from the newspaper’s newsroom.
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