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| Rashida Jones |
MSNBC names Rashida Jones president, effective Feb. 1. Jones, who will be the first Black woman to lead a major cable news network, joined MSNBC as an executive producer in 2013, and is currently senior vice president, overseeing daytime news coverage for the network. She will succeed Phil Griffin, who has been MSNBC president since 2008. “Rashida knows and understands MSNBC, in part because it’s where she started when she first joined NBCU seven years ago,” he said in a memo to employees “She knows that it is the people who work here that make it great, and she understands its culture. She also appreciates the impact and potential of the brand.”
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| Monica Richardson |
The Miami Herald appoints Monica Richardson as executive editor, making her the first Black executive editor in the paper’s 117-year history. Richardson, who comes on board at the Herald on Jan. 1, is currently senior managing editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Before coming to the AJC in 2007, she worked at the Charlottesville Observer, Florida Times-Union and Lexington Herald-Leader. In her new position, Richardson will also oversee el Nuevo Herald and the Bradenton Herald, and serve as McClatchy’s Florida regional editor (McClatchy is the Herald’s owner.) “She has a strong record of leadership in local journalism at one of the great metro newsrooms in the country. Now, she brings her commitment to accountability journalism and a track record of successful digital innovation that serves local audiences,” said McClatchy senior vice president of news Kristin Roberts.
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The Hartford Courant is the latest Tribune Publishing newspaper to leave its physical office space behind. On Dec. 27, the paper is vacating the building it has occupied since the mid-1940s. Employees that include the Courant’s advertising staff and reporters have worked from home since March, so the offices have mostly been empty. Other Tribune papers that have closed their newsrooms include the New York Daily News, the Orlando Sentinel, Capital Gazette in Annapolis, MD, and the Morning Call in Allentown, PA.
Fox News Media issued a pretty sparse release to announce the departure of one of its stars. “Effective today, Maria Bartiromo is no longer with FOX News Media,” it reads.
Brunswick Group partner John Simons has joined CNN as senior director of business & media. He held top jobs at Time and the Wall Street Journal.
WNET, the nation’s largest public media company, names Edward O’Keefe its next president and CEO, effective September 21. O’Keefe succeeds Neal Shapiro, who becomes president emeritus and will retire at the end of the year... The Stealth Bot Prohibition Act, which would empower news publishers and other content providers to defend themselves by mandating transparency for all bots crawling their sites, in introduced in the House by Rep. Laurel Lee (R-FL) and Rep. Valerie Foushee (D-NC)... Google gets socked by European Union regulators with a $1 billion fine for using the platform’s dominance as a search engine to illegally undercut competition.
Boston Globe Media acquires InstaTrac, a company that provides subscription-based services aimed at making government information easier to find, track, and understand... AARP names former New Republic CEO and publisher Michael Caruso as its SVP and chief content officer, unifying the organization's portfolio of media, live events and digital platforms... The Fund for American Studies, an educational nonprofit, awards its inaugural Journalism Excellence Fellowships.
Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. has replaced CEO and former California Congressman Devin Nunes with Kevin McGurn, a seasoned media sales executive.
