Masha Gessen’s “The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy,” about the Tsarnaev brothers, accused of orchestrating the bombing at the Boston Marathon finish line in 2013, will be published by Riverhead in April. Read more
Charles Onyango-Obbo launched a Pan-African news site last May. The site, called Mail & Guardian Africa, seeks to bring a “deeper understanding to Africa’s possibilities and difficulties today … give voice to perspectives that both Afro-optimists and Afro-pessimists don’t want … Read more
Dimitri Mitropoulos took over the helm of the Greek daily newspaper Ta Nea in May 2014. As executive editor, Mitropoulos manages 120 journalists. He was previously a political commentator with the newspaper. Read more
Joe O’Connor is the new president and general manager of WFAE, a Charlotte, North Carolina NPR news station. O’Connor previously spent eight years as general manager at Rhode Island Public Radio. Read more
Susie Banikarim has been named vice president of content strategy and audience engagement at Vocativ, a media start-up that seeks to tell original stories using the untapped troves of the Deep Web. Banikarim will be in … Read more
Laura Wides-Muñoz joined Fusion in January as director of news practices. She had spent the previous eight years working as a reporter in the Miami bureau of the Associated Press. She is responsible for ensuring that Fusion’s journalism meets its standards. Read more
Dan Vergano has moved to BuzzFeed News, where he is a science reporter based in the media company’s Washington, D.C. bureau. He is covering science politics and policy. Vergano previously worked at National Geographic. Read more
Kalpana Jain is senior education editor at The Conversation US, a nonprofit website that launched last fall to offer news and views from the academic and research community. She works with academics on articles related to research, policy, … Read more
Holly Williams, along with the CBS Evening News team, received the Jack R. Howard Award and $10,000 from the Scripps Howard Foundation for “Holy War,” early coverage of the emergence of ISIS in Syria and Northern Iraq. The … Read more