Rose named chief editor at Dow Jones Newswires in Americas
Josée Rose has been hired by The Wall Street Journal as chief executive Dow Jones Newswires, Americas in New York. Se will start on March 18 and report to Chip Cummins. Most recently Rose was an executive editor at Business Insider, which she joined in 2021. Previously, Rose spent almost 20 years of experience at […]
Business Insider promotes de Graaf to deputy executive editor
Mia de Graaf has been promoted to a deputy executive editor at Business Insider. In this role, she continues to oversee health and health care coverage across the newsroom. She is now also in charge of features for the Life department, directing long-form stories on lifestyle and culture topics, including food, relationships, wellness, celebrities, internet […]
Ackman hires law firm to battle Business Insider
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman escalated his offensive against Business Insider in relation to stories alleging his wife committed plagiarism, deploying a law firm to increase pressure on the news outlet to correct or retract them, reports Bob Van Voris and Amanda Gordon of Bloomberg News. Van Voris and Gordon report, “‘We are providing you this demand to explain why […]
Business Insider CEO wants readers coming to site twice a week
Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng sent out the following to the staff on Thursday: Team, During our last all hands call, we unveiled our new “North Star” metric — 2+ Days on Site per week. Historically, our guiding metric has been “visits.” We used this metric to tell us what our audience loves and wants more […]
TechCrunch hires Bort as VC/startups editor
TechCrunch has hired Julie Bort has an editor on its startups and venture capital team. Bort has been an editor at large for Business Insider’s technology team. She had been at the news organization for 12 years and had previously been chief technology correspondent and a senior editor for its venture capital and startups coverage. Bort previously […]
Morris named Singapore deputy bureau chief for Business Insider
Business Insider senior correspondent Meghan Morris has been named Singapore deputy bureau chief for the news organization. She will move next month. Morris has primarily been writing investigative stories about the tech industry. She has also served as a senior reporter on the tech features desk and the finance desk. She has also covered tech […]
Tarpley, senior editor at Business Insider, departs
Laura Grace Tarpley, a senior editor at Business Insider for personal finance coverage, has left the news organization for another opportunity. She oversaw coverage about mortgage rates, refinance rates, lenders, bank accounts, and borrowing and savings tips for Personal Finance Insider. She was a writer and editor for Business Insider’s “The Road to Home” series, […]
Bridge Michigan hires Allen as deputy editor
Leslie J. Allen has been hired by Bridge Michigan as a deputy editor. Allen has spent decades in business journalism, including more than 15 years at Automotive News, where she led the mobility team, which covers emerging automotive technology, including electrified and autonomous transportation, and was editor-in-chief of its Shift magazine. She was part of […]
Rest of World, HBR, Business Insider among magazine award finalists
The American Society of Magazine Editors announced Thursday the finalists for the 59th annual National Magazine Awards. The business publications that are finalists are: Rest of World for general excellence in the literature, science and politics category. In the design category, Harvard Business Review for July–August print issue; “Create Stories That Change Your Company’s Culture,” […]
NY Times hires Business Insider’s Schwartz
Business Insider staffer Mattathias Schwartz will be joining The New York Times as legal correspondent, covering the federal judiciary. Schwartz has been a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, where he has written more than a dozen feature stories since 2006, including sit-down profiles of John Brennan, Mike Pompeo and Bill Barr. At Business Insider, he […]
