Bankadelic podcasts: Vested meets PayPal at Money 20/20

The popular finance podcast Bankadelic just dropped FIVE new podcasts from Money20/20 Las Vegas 2024, with two more coming next week–for a grand total of 16, new conference record. There are many great episodes to check out, including with Har Rai Khalsa 🚀 of Swaystack, Kivanc Onan of Payoneer, Rachel Castro of U.S. Bank and […]
Business Insider founder Blodget is leaving company

Business Insider founder Henry Blodget sent out the following on Friday: Team, Seventeen years ago, in the early days of Business Insider, I learned about the “startup-founder life-cycle.” First you had to create a product people loved. Then you had to build a business to support it. Then you had to hire an amazing team. […]
Longtime biz journalist Ledbetter dies at 60

Longtime business journalist James Ledbetter has died at the age of 60. He most recently was editor of thought leadership at KPMG. He had earlier launched paid newsletter FIN, focused on decentralized finance and fintech. He was also executive editor of The New York Observer. “Jim was a deep thinker and a brilliant writer, awe-inspiring traits […]
Bankadelic podcast: After Hurricanes Milton and Helene, a way banks can literally lend a hand.

On Lou Carlozo’s Bankadelic, Bradley Tompkins, the Chief Information Officer of Vergent LMS, explains how software as a service can help consumers and financial institutions hook up–a more urgent matter than ever for survivors of Hurricanes Helene and Milton. The timing couldn’t be more poignant, as even under the best of circumstances, some outliers who […]
Let’s stop covering everything about Zuckerberg, Altman and Musk

Public relations executive Ed Zitron argues that the business media is doing a disserve to society by covering everything it can about technology executives Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman and Elon Musk. Zitron writes, “The reason that Elon Musk is able to lie and get away with it is that a far-too-large chunk of the press seems dedicated […]
Bloomberg, NY Times and Washington Post win multiple Loeb Awads

eb awBloomberg News, The New York Times and The Washington Post won multiple Loeb Awards on Thursday. The following is a list of the journalists and media outlets that received 2024 Loeb Awards in the 12 competition categories: AUDIO CATEGORY “Spellcaster” – Bloomberg News and WonderyHannah Miller, Annie Massa, Max Chafkin, Chris Seigel, Russell Finch, Rachel B. Doyle, Mark Milian and Jeff Grocott BEAT […]
Business Insider hires Heller as editor in chief

Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng sent out the following on Monday: Team, Some exciting news to share — Jamie Heller is joining Business Insider as our new Editor-in-Chief! Jamie has worked at The Wall Street Journal for more than 20 years and currently leads their global business and tech coverage. She led the corporate team […]
Stelter returning to CNN as chief media analyst

Longtime media industry reporter Brian Stelter is returning to CNN as chief media analyst. He will helm the “Reliable Sources” newsletter, develop digital content and appear on television. Stelter writes, “All the while I remained an avid reader of Reliable Sources, and especially admired Oliver Darcy‘s fearless reportage, as well as his decision to launch Status last […]
Loeb finalists named for 2024

The Gerald Loeb Awards banquet and celebration will be held on Thursday, Oct. 10, at the Rainbow Room in New York City.The winning journalists and outlets in each competition category will be announced during the banquet and not in advance. The following Loeb Awards finalists were selected from 491 entries, representing the work of over 200 journalists […]
Do reporters like pitches by social media?

In an update to the groundbreaking 2015 Talking Biz News article “The pros/cons of pitching biz reporters through social media,” we again asked several reporters their opinion on receiving pitches via social media. Back in ‘15, X was Twitter and TikTok didn’t exist. Instagram had just launched Boomerang, and Facebook had enabled GIFs. Snapchat was […]