The Daily Hires Tom Lowry As Business Editor

The Daily made a big hire Friday, scooping up Variety’s Tom Lowry as the tablet publication’s new business editor.

Daily editor-in-chief Jesse Angelo announced the hire Friday in a memo to staff obtained by The Huffington Post.

Folks,

I'm happy to announce that Tom Lowry is joining The Daily as our Business Editor. Tom comes to us from Variety, where he was a senior editor, and BusinessWeek before that. He is an excellent journalist and a great guy and we're thrilled to have him aboard. Please give him a warm welcome when he starts July 1.

Jesse

There’s been much discussion in the media world about the half-dozen or so departures at the publication since News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch first showed it off to reporters this past February. The Huffington Post recently reported that art director Gabriel Dance was the latest to leave. So the Lowry hire is good news for the four-month-old start-up.

The Daily, which hopes to build a national audience, has always had its sights set beyond the Manhattan media fishbowl. Earlier this week, the publication announced it was “expanding” and seeking journalists from around the country, not just those located in New York City.

Comments

[syllable]

12:11 AM on 06/20/2011

If the Monopoly game were redesigned to be relevant today, would Media Megalomania and Murdoch, MMM, be a goal or take you to jail after you again pass GO?

[littlepuffycloud]

07:30 PM on 06/19/2011

I still blame the Aussies...

[syllable]

02:22 AM on 06/25/2011

The Daily The Faily The Faily The Stalely The Stalely

[Josephus]

12:07 PM on 06/19/2011

Thanks for this article. I did not know The Daily was a Murdoch rag, although the tone of some of the articles made me suspicious. I've now deleted it from my iPad.

[jobscabin]

08:42 AM on 06/19/2011

The motto of the NEWS CORP is: "we make the news". If you are a large corporation that wants to spin a story in your favor, call Rupert. For a price, he will deliver millions of viewers that agree with your point of view even if doing so is against their best interests. What an amazing business model.

[josephXY]

06:56 PM on 06/18/2011

And then there is the digital revolution in general, taking its toll on the old media,
Murdoch's empire included. That's the fun of that: http://tinyurl.com/6hf8277

[bluguy8]

06:42 PM on 06/18/2011

Does anyone really pay for this ?

[Minnehaha]

05:18 PM on 06/18/2011

How old is Rupert Murdock? His kids are just waiting to take over !!!

[blood1]

11:40 AM on 06/18/2011

1. There is a pie fight going on about real news v. made up stuff
2. Is there a difference between how individual TV media companies sanction their employees when they go over the top?
3. Should there be a standard applied to reporters, etc, when they goes over the top?
4. What constitutes lying. Is that different from distorting the facts?

You can fight among yourself, but if you won't/can't agree on a "how to judge" and "what constitutes a lie v. distortion of facts, then this is nothing more than a Pie fight.

[josephbua]

11:24 AM on 06/18/2011

I have not yet read anything produced by this staff that would compel me to subscribe.

[floridaray]

10:35 AM on 06/18/2011

Would NEVER put it on my iPad as long as Murdoch has anything to do with it

[valeskas]

08:55 AM on 06/18/2011

The new guy, must be another hater. I do not watch Fox news whatsoever, so this is not a concern for me.

[TFlint]

11:10 PM on 06/17/2011

Hire all you want, Rupert. Crap remains crap.

[Allen Michie]

06:28 PM on 06/17/2011

I've read the Daily for two weeks until my free trial ran out. I liked it, and I didn't see any obvious biases outside of the editorial page (which did skew right). But I just cannot bring myself to voluntarily give money to Rupert Murdoch, so I won't subscribe. I probably would subscribe, though, if it were owned by almost anyone else.

[John Mainstream]

06:12 PM on 06/17/2011

There would be no free press in the United States without C-SPAN and FoxNews. Our TV network news operations have become parrots for the Obama administration.

[Americanium]

06:27 PM on 06/17/2011

Ironic that you are a Clinton Democrat considering Republicans said the same thing when he was President.. Dam Ly Her!!

[jbegun33]

12:31 AM on 06/18/2011

Hilarious, is all I can muster

[TJ Logan]

04:57 PM on 06/17/2011

How could any honorable and true journalist work for Murdoch and News Corp (Fox News).

Answer - they cannot.

[ssmithlg]

09:36 AM on 06/18/2011

How could any left wing hack in disguise as a "journalist" work for Murdock?

Answer - they cannot.

[floridaray]

10:47 AM on 06/18/2011

No left wing hack would work for Faux News.....they would rather work for the The NATIONAL ENQUIRER .