Globe and Mail shuffles enterprise beats

Because the Report on Enterprise staff continues its work to develop our viewers and solidify our protection in areas confirmed to develop subscriptions and strengthen retention, we’re excited to announce 4 workers strikes.

Ethan Lou joins as remark editor, liable for cultivating and creating a slate of numerous and insightful contributors to boost our protection. He’ll work with enterprise and political leaders who’ve one thing to say, and sharp writers with probing and at instances provocative insights on enterprise and the financial system. A columnist for our Report on Enterprise and Opinion sections, Ethan has written longform work for Maclean’s and Toronto Life. He has labored at Reuters and the Toronto Star. Ethan is the writer of two books and has been nominated for Kobo’s rising author prize. He has served as a visiting journalist on the College of British Columbia and is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan College. He begins Monday, Oct. 3, reporting to Dennis Choquette.

Salmaan Farooqui joins our Investor staff as a private finance reporter alongside Erica Alini. Sal joined The Globe as our weekend reporter final December after years as a contract contributor, and his byline has already appeared steadily as a part of our private finance protection. As a freelancer, he wrote on all the things from navigating pupil loans to selecting journey insurance coverage to essentially the most cost-friendly outside actions (spoiler: It’s disc golf). His work has additionally appeared in The Guardian, Canadian Press, Toronto Star and BBC World Information. He’ll transition from his weekend function over the approaching weeks. He’ll report back to James Cowan.

James Bradshaw is taking over a brand new problem as our institutional investing reporter, masking Canada’s largest traders together with pension plans and personal fairness corporations similar to Brookfield Asset Administration. James has been Canada’s high banking reporter for almost six years, most lately main protection on essential points such because the financial-sector fallout from COVID-19, tensions between Ottawa and Bay Road, and the freezing of financial institution accounts beneath the Emergencies Act. He has constructed relationships with CEOs and senior bankers that helped him body the strategic challenges going through banks, break information about government modifications and regulatory points, and reveal behind-the-scenes dynamics among the many banks and their leaders. James joined The Globe in 2007, masking beats for the nationwide desk in addition to the humanities part earlier than becoming a member of ROB. From 2014 to 2017 he lined media in a interval of upheaval and consolidation (together with the earlier revolt at Bell Media). James has gained a SABEW Finest in Enterprise Award and the Edward Goff Penny Prize for younger journalists; he has additionally been nominated for a Nationwide Newspaper Award. In his new function, he’ll proceed to report back to Janet McFarland. We shall be actively searching for a substitute for James on the banking beat.

David Milstead is rising his concentrate on areas exterior of institutional investing, the place he has distinctive expertise to leverage throughout the newsroom. David will proceed to be our lead professional on company governance issues – together with managing our annual Board Video games challenge – and can commit a part of his time to government compensation points. He’ll proceed to deliver his experience on accounting and knowledge evaluation to his column, which has turn out to be a must-read for a lot of traders on the lookout for difficult views on corporations’ selections. David will proceed to deliver that watchdog mindset to each day tales and to a lot of our greatest initiatives to assist create strong, fact-driven journalism that spurs reform. David will proceed to be a key contact for others in our newsroom who’re searching for assist with compensation, accounting and investing points, making him a newsroom-wide useful resource for different journalists. This 12 months, he gained a Nationwide Newspaper Award and was a finalist for one more, in each circumstances contributing monetary experience to the tales entered. Whereas David joined the Globe as a full-time reporter in 2018, his breadth of experience has been honed over almost three many years as a enterprise journalist, together with 9 years as common freelance contributor to the Globe from 2009 till 2018. Previous to that, he labored as finance editor at Denver’s Rocky Mountain Information, the place he gained a complete of 9 particular person and joint awards from SABEW, and as a reporter at The Wall Road Journal. He’ll proceed reporting to Janet McFarland.