RD Recap: New Hires at Popular Science; Changes at WSJ

The New York Times’ never-ending string of new appointments keeps on truckin’ with Dorothea Herrey jumping on board as senior vice president of NYT Live. She joins from Dow Jones, where she had been heading up the conference business at The Wall Street Journal… David Lauter will oversee coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign at the Los Angeles Times, a move that makes a lot of sense given his current position as Washington bureau chief… Pete Donohue, who covered New York transportation for the New York Daily News until April, hitches his car to the Transport Workers Union train.