Red Ventures isn’t selling ZDNet anytime soon. If anything, the 30-year-old franchise is growing. Look for enhanced coverage of health, education and personal finance in coming weeks. Expect the 2022 ZDNet to focus not necessarily on tech, but on work and everything to do with it — right down to the credit card reviews… Danny Crichton left TechCrunch+ to oversee content at Lux Capital… Former WSJ reporter Jared Council has joined Forbes, “reporting and editing stories at the intersection of business and race”… Lizeth Beltran is WSJ’s new health and science editor…
The newest senior technology reporter at BuzzFeed News is Emily Baker-White, most recently a senior policy manager at Spotify. According to a recent Spotify want ad, policy managers “define, enforce, and communicate our stance on policy issues (e.g. hate content) across ads, podcasts, music, and all other forms of user-generated content.” This is an interesting background for a reporter to have, perhaps a sign of the times…
Bloomberg grew its online revenue 50 percent this year but still lags WSJ and the FT in paid subscribers… Bloomberg scored big by hiring Protocol’s Joe Williams to fill the gap created when Brad Stone moved Nico Grant to the Google beat. Meanwhile, WSJ still hasn’t hired anyone at CIO Journal. Angus Loten has six bylines on the CIO-J front page this morning, John McCormick five…