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Jean YoonReuters named Jean Yoon to the newly created position of executive editor, editorial strategy, based in New York. Yoon, who is slated to begin in October, is Reuters regional editor, Asia, as well as global editor, strategic centers, with about 800 journalists under her purview. Prior to her editorial roles, she served as chief financial correspondent in Seoul and UK technology and media correspondent in London. In her new role, she will take on responsibility for the company’s global editorial strategy in partnership with editor in chief Steve Adler.
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Tony Kornheiser & Michael WilbonThe National Press Club is giving Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon, the co-hosts of ESPN’s “Pardon the Interruption,” its Fourth Estate Award. Kornheiser started his career in journalism with Newsday, and has also worked for the New York Times and Washington Post, as well as hosting a radio show on D.C. station WTEM that was syndicated nationally on ESPN Radio. Wilbon began his career at the Washington Post and has been an NBA studio analyst for “KIA NBA Countdown” on ABC and ESPN since 2006. Previous winners of the Fourth Estate Award include Wolf Blitzer, Gwen Ifill and Charlie Rose. The award will be presented at a dinner in DC on Oct. 4.
The Automotive Video Association, a newly created group of automotive video journalists, announced that it will host the first-ever AVA awards this fall. Established to promote the video aspect of covering the auto industry, the AVA says that its membership is open to all professionals who produce content related to the industry. The award program, titled “The Mountain Run,” will take place Sept. 23 at the Resort of the Mountain in Welches, Oregon. Details of the finalists and criteria will be released in the coming weeks.
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.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is being bought by the Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, a nonprofit that is the parent organization of the Baltimore Banner... The British Broadcasting Corporation is axing approximately 2,000 jobs, about 10 percent of its work force... Snap, the company behind Snapchat, is also succumbing to layoff fever, announcing plans to lay off 16 percent of its employees, about 1,000 people.
CBS News Radio will go off the air on May 22, part of the axe-swinging managerial plan put into play by CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss... The Economist, which was first published in 1843, is changing hands. Canadian billionaire Stephen Smith has agreed to acquire a 26.9 percent stake in the publication from Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, her family and family foundation... Nexstar Media Group says it has closed its acquisition of TEGNA, the broadcast, digital media and marketing services company that was formed in 2015, when the Gannett Company split into two publicly traded companies.
