NBC News Business, Tech & Media Unit Adds, Promotes

Madeleine Haeringer, SVP of editorial, NBC News, announced Friday morning that Nicole Childers will serve as the new executive editor for NBC News’ Business, Tech & Media Unit, beginning July 26, based in the Los Angeles bureau, and that Christine Haughney Dare-Bryan has been promoted to managing editor of the unit.

In her memo announcing the news, Haeringer said: “Nicole comes to NBC News from Marketplace, where she served as executive producer of the Marketplace Morning Report, reaching more than 8.5 million listeners on public radio stations around the country. She also conceived of and launched a daily international business broadcast with the BBC. Nicole began her career at ABC News as an intern for Diane Sawyer and rose up the ranks, including landing a producing gig in ABC’s business unit, before joining World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. Nicole then moved to NPR where she was executive producer of news and notes before accepting a position as the chief content officer at LA Public Media where she led an audience research project that examined media habits of people of color.”

She continued: “I am also pleased to announce that our own Christine Haughney Dare-Bryan has been promoted to managing editor. You already know that she joined the Biz Tech unit as senior editor nine months ago and since then has edited a range of enterprise pieces from the team’s reporting on Amazon’s ongoing unionization efforts to Bill Gates’ farmland holdings to trailer park evictions. Prior to joining NBC, she reported for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times before creating the Emmy-nominated Netflix docuseries Rotten, which also earned her a James Beard award.”