Business Insider EIC Carlson is stepping down

Nicholas Carlson

Business Insider’s global editor-in-chief Nicholas Carlson is stepping down as the company begins a search for his replacement, reports Maxwell Tani of Semafor.

Tani reports, “In a meeting with the publication’s leadership Tuesday morning, Nicholas Carlson announced that he would leave his position as the top editor of the business-focused digital news outlet, and become an editor-at-large focused on longer-term projects.

“In an internal memo first obtained by Semafor, Carlson thanked staff and leadership of Business Insider’s parent company Axel Springer.

“But he also clarified that the move was not motivated by recent criticism of the publication, an allusion to Business Insider’s recent reporting on academic writings by Neri Oxman, which prompted lengthy online screeds and legal threats from her husband, billionaire businessman Bill Ackman.

“‘Every year I’ve been in this job we’ve published journalism that, though fair, has left very powerful people mad at us,’ he wrote. ‘That’s a fact of journalism, and that’s never going away.'”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.