Finally! I have been keeping this under my hat! In addition to preparing for a wedding in November, my dear chum David Gelles has just been promoted from San Francisco-based Tech Reporter for the FT to U.S. Media, Marketing Correspondent. Here’s the official announcement from the Editor & Publisher newsroom:
‘FT’ Promotes Web Developer David Gelles to U.S. Media, Marketing Correspondent
The Financial Times Wednesday named David Gelles as its U.S. media and marketing correspondent, replacing Kenneth Li, who earlier this week announced he was returning to Reuters as its editor-in-charge of technology, media and telecoms.
Gelles has been the FT’s San Francisco-based technology correspondent and web content developer, covering social media, e-commerce and e-books.
In his new assignment, the newspaper said, Gelles will cover “long-established content and distribution companies, disruptive digital media innovators and the wider marketing industry.”
Gelles “brings a fresh perspective to the beat having covered the digital media revolution from the West Coast,” FT Media Editor Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson said.
Before joining the FT, Gelles served as the small business reporter for the Miami Herald and contributed to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and Forbes.
This will bring him to the New York offices of that hallowed British business newspaper, The Financial Times, as early as January, 2011.
I am already planning to spend a couple-few months in NYC in the Spring of 2011 because as everyone knows, David’s life is a movable feast.
