Vanessa Mobley starts next week as op-ed editor for the New York Times… Michelle Legro is Wired’s new deputy editor for features… Kara Swisher‘s latest annual F2F confab is called “Pivot MIA”because it’s being held in Miami, Feb. 14-16. The $5,500 event isn’t sold out yet; tickets are now 20 percent off. Organizers will be conducting daily Covid tests… “Time for one of my periodic rants,” wrote Barron’s associate editor Eric Savitz on Jan. 29. Eric’s tough-love advice for PR — on LinkedIn — has drawn 362 likes and 84 comments so far… Quartz seeks a business editor to help readers “understand trends and see around corners“… Digiday launched a new vertical called WorkLife… Elisabeth Buchwald left Marketwatch to cover personal finance for USA Today… TechCrunch senior reporter Mary Ann Azevedo has launched a fintech column to be published on Sundays… Brendan Bordelon is the new author of Politico’s Morning Tech newsletter… Margi Murphy now covers cybersecurity for Bloomberg… Joe Mennleft Reuters for The Washington Post.