Top Journalists in Other Retailing
Áine Cain Business Insider
Senior retail reporter known for deep coverage of America’s largest retailers and how labor, crime, and store-level operations shape performance. Specialties: Big-box retail (Walmart, Target, Costco, Home Depot, Lowe’s), retail labor and workplace, store operations, loss prevention.
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Dan Berthiaume Chain Store Age
Senior Editor for Technology at Chain Store Age, covering how tech and omnichannel strategies impact day-to-day retail execution. Specialties: Retail technology, omnichannel, store systems, payments, e-commerce enablement.
Erin Cabrey Retail Brew
Senior reporter at Retail Brew focused on consumer brands and categories driving retail demand, with frequent executive interviews across mass and specialty retail. Specialties: Beauty and personal care, food & beverage and grocery, CPG trends, creator/retail crossovers.
Cathaleen Chen The Business of Fashion
Retail Editor at The Business of Fashion, leading coverage of retail and direct‑to‑consumer models and the evolving fashion-commerce landscape. Specialties: DTC brands, fashion and specialty retail, retail strategy and turnaround, e-commerce.
Anne D’Innocenzio Associated Press
Associated Press national retail writer with authoritative, accessible coverage of retail earnings, strategy shifts and consumer headwinds. Specialties: Department stores, discount and off-price, holiday sales, consumer spending and tariffs’ impact on prices.
Gabrielle Fonrouge CNBC
Retail reporter at CNBC known for enterprise and investigative work on specialty and next‑gen retailers, plus on-air analysis of quarterly results. Specialties: Specialty retail, DTC and digitally native brands, earnings, investigations.
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Daphne Howland Retail Dive
Senior reporter at Retail Dive delivering deeply reported analyses on department stores, bankruptcies and the broader structural shifts in U.S. retail. Specialties: Department stores and malls, bankruptcies and restructurings, labor and safety, Amazon and marketplace dynamics.
Dani James Retail Dive
Retail Dive reporter covering earnings and category performance across mass, specialty and apparel, with clear explainers for industry readers. Specialties: Retail earnings, category trends, leadership changes, apparel/footwear.
Jordyn Holman The New York Times
New York Times business reporter (and Corner Office columnist) whose beat regularly intersects with retail strategy and the shopper economy. Specialties: Retailers’ corporate strategy and leadership, workplace and diversity, consumer behavior.
Suzanne Kapner The Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal reporter covering the retail and fashion industries, from C‑suite shakeups to brand turnarounds and sourcing shifts. Specialties: Department stores and fashion retail, supply chains and sourcing, luxury and apparel trends.
Mary Meisenzahl Business Insider
Insider retail reporter spotlighting retail and restaurant operations and worker experiences, often through first‑person store visits. Specialties: Quick‑service and fast‑casual restaurant retail, labor and scheduling, store-level operations and merchandising.
Nathaniel Meyersohn CNN Business
CNN Business consumer reporter covering major U.S. retailers and how macro forces (inflation, tariffs) filter down to shoppers. Specialties: Big‑box and discount (Walmart, Target, Costco, Dollar General), consumer trends, grocery and CPG.
Andrew Adam Newman Retail Brew
Senior reporter at Retail Brew producing agenda‑setting features on store innovation, brand collaborations and shifting shopper behavior. Specialties: Big-box and specialty retail, store formats, partnerships and pop‑ups, trend features.
Sarah Nassauer The Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal retail reporter widely read for scoops and analysis on America’s largest merchants and their operations playbooks. Specialties: Walmart, Target, Costco and club/DIY retail; store operations; logistics and labor.
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Courtney Reagan CNBC
CNBC’s senior retail reporter, a go‑to for live earnings coverage and executive interviews across big‑box, department and specialty retail. Specialties: On‑air coverage of earnings and comps, mass merchants and home improvement, tariff impacts on pricing/margins.
Cara Salpini Retail Dive
Senior editor at Retail Dive and award‑winning journalist covering strategy and performance across apparel, footwear and beauty retailers. Specialties: Athletic and apparel retail, DTC pivots, executive moves, performance footwear/beauty crossovers.
Spencer Soper Bloomberg News
Bloomberg’s long‑time e‑commerce reporter, frequently breaking news and trends on Amazon and marketplace dynamics that ripple across retail. Specialties: Amazon and e‑commerce ecosystems, third‑party marketplaces, logistics and last‑mile, retail media.
Ben Tobin Business Insider
Insider big‑box reporter focused on operations, workers and strategy at America’s largest chains. Specialties: Big‑box retailers (Walmart, Lowe’s), labor issues, corporate strategy and store experience.
Alexander Vuocolo Retail Brew
Retail Brew senior reporter covering store strategy and the evolving relationship between national chains and local communities. Specialties: Big‑box and DTC, store formats and experiential retail, local retail ecosystems.
Marianne Wilson Chain Store Age
Editor‑in‑chief at Chain Store Age overseeing coverage of leadership changes, store strategy and industry-wide trends impacting retailers. Specialties: Retail leadership, store development and design, cross‑category industry trends.
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