| Kevin Frey 
To keep up with today's media landscape, public relations professionals need to know not only who is going where, but also how to communicate more effectively with those journalists, bloggers and influencers making moves. This week's Influencer Insights include five of the most significant newsroom changes selected by PR Newswire's Audience Research team, plus an interview with Toronto Star investigative reporter Robert Cribb. Want even more media moves? Check out the latest issue of the PR Newswire Media Moves newsletter or follow @PRNMedia for daily updates. 1. Politico Magazine: Stephen Heuser (@sfheuser) takes over the role of interim editor at Politico Magazine (@PoliticoMag) from Garrett Graff who is moving on. Heuser formerly worked at The Boston Globe as an ideas editor and deputy health and science editor before joining Politico in 2014 to be "The Agenda" editor, covering the intersection of policy and politics. Heuser will continue in his role as The Agenda editor while serving as the publication’s interim editor. 2. Bloomberg News – San Francisco Bureau: Former Wall Street Journal scribe Lizette Chapman (@lizette_chapman) and ex-Forbes Reporter Ellen Huet (@ellenhuet) are the new venture capital reporters at Bloomberg News (@business). For the past five years, Chapman reported on technology and venture capitals stories for WSJ's VentureWire. She also has served as a technology writer at San Francisco Business Times. Huet joins the team after working as a tech writer at Forbes. In their new positions, they will be covering the crossover of start-ups and venture capital. 
3. Business First: Current Cincinnati Business Courier Managing Editor Lisa Benson (@lisacincibiz) is climbing on board at the end of November as editor of the Louisville, Kentucky's Business First publication (@BFLouisville). Lisa has been at the Business Courier in Cincinnati for the past five years helping to build a larger digital following and also re-designing and re-shaping the weekly biz mag. 4. InvestmentNews: Walden Siew (@waldensiew) takes on the news editor role at @newsfromIN. Walden had recently been working for the past few years at Thomson-Reuters covering wealth, investement and banking and before that had worked at Bloomberg covering bonds and trading. InvestmentNews is a weekly publication and online source that provides news and information for the financial services industry. 5. New York Daily News: Executive Editor Jim Rich (@jimrichNYDN) has been promoted to editor-in-chief at @NYDailyNews. Jim is taking over for Colin Myler, who has announced that he is moving on and returning to England for more family time. Jim's experiences at the Daily News also include work as a sports editor and managing editor, as well as a night sports editor role at the New York Post. Influencer Intel of the Week: In this edition of Beyond the Wire's Meet the Press, our Canadian cousins at CNW speak with Robert Cribb, an award-winning investigative reporter at the Toronto Star. He discusses how investigative reporters decide what to cover, the differences between working on camera and print reporting, and his go-to work tools. Targeting journalists and influencers who cover your specific niche will help you connect with audiences more likely to be interested in your news. Learn how to reach the right media with our guide Driving Audience Awareness by Targeting Your Press Release. Kevin Frey is a senior audience researcher for the Mid-Atlantic region. Each week, PR Newswire's Audience Research team makes thousands of updates to the media database underpinning our Agility workflow platform. Request a demo to learn more about Agility's media targeting, monitoring and distribution options. | 
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