Why Axel Springer is interested in Business Insider
Ken Doctor writes for Capital New York about the strategy behind Business Insider in the wake of news that Axel Springer is interested in acquiring it. Doctor writes, “While the Wall Street Journal (even as it expands and regroups its international products) and the Financial Times (perhaps newly refueled with parent Nikkei funding) aim for […]
WSJ hires McNish from Globe and Mail
Jacquie McNish, a senior writer at the Toronto Globe and Mail, has been hired by the Wall Street Journal. McNish will be a Toronto-based correspondent. She will cover some of the country’s biggest companies and help The Journal expand the reach and ambition of its coverage of Canada. McNish has worked in Canada and the […]
Business Book of the Year shortlist named
The Financial Times and McKinsey & Co. published Tuesday the shortlist for the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. The list includes a book by New York Times business reporter Nathaniel Popper and Toronto Globe and Mail business reporters Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff. Now in its 11th year, the award recognizes the title […]
WSJ’s “Washington Wire” turns 75
Tim Hanrahan of The Wall Street Journal writes about its “Washington Wire” column/blog, which first appeared in the paper in 1940 and is still running after 75 years. Hanrahan writes, “The weekly column ran for decades on Friday on the front page. A 1954 wire features Democrats’ attacks on President Dwight Eisenhower’s business policies, and demands for […]
Murray Energy sues Bloomberg over information leak
Murray Energy Corp. is suing Bloomberg LP over a claim that a Bloomberg Business report published in August was part of a “conspiracy to breach [a] confidentiality agreement” and publicized trade secret information about the coal miner, reports Taylor Kuykendall of SNL Financial. Kuykendall writes, “The article is related to a report in which Bloomberg […]
McGraw Fellowship taking winter applications
Winter applications are now open for the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism, an initiative launched in early 2014 at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. The McGraw Fellowships provide accomplished journalists with the resources and editorial support to do the deep reporting needed to produce distinguished stories on critical issues related to U.S. business and the global economy. The upcoming deadline to apply is Nov. 15, 2015. Each fellow […]
Reuters seeks editor to oversee muni bond coverage
Reuters is seeking a seasoned and enterprising journalist to help lead our team of reporters covering the finances of U.S. state and local governments and the $3.7 trillion municipal bond market which raises cash for everything from road construction to plugging holes in underfunded public worker pension plans. In the past half decade, the “muni” […]
Business Insider close to being sold for $560 million
German publishing giant Axel Springer is closing in on a deal to buy Business Insider, in a deal that would value the Web publisher at around $560 million, reports Peter Kafka of Re/code. Kafka writes, “Business Insider hasn’t disclosed its revenues recently. In 2013, it did around $20 million. In January, when Blodget announced his […]
Stone named head of Bloomberg’s global technology coverage
Bloomberg editor in chief John Micklethwait sent out the following announcement to the editorial and research staff on Tuesday morning: To All in Editorial and Research As I have said many times, our coverage should focus on six subjects: business, finance, markets, power, economics, and technology. Last month, we put our government and economics coverage […]
Business Insider seeks transportation editor
Business Insider is looking for an editor to run our coverage of the transportation industry. The transportation editor will be responsible following events in the auto and airline industries and reporting on them in real time across multiple social media platforms and on our website. He or she will manage a small team of reporters covering everything […]
