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Business Insider hires Herbst as senior leadership and workplace editor

June 16, 2025

Posted by Chris Roush

Julia Herbst

Business Insider has hired Julia Herbst as senior leadership and workplace editor.

She has been a senior editor overseeing work life coverage at Fast Company since 2019.

Herbst previously worked at Breaker Magazine in New York. She previously was an editorial coordinator and associate editor at Los Angeles Magazine.

While there, she contributed monthly to the “Buzz” and “Do” sections, and the feature package. She also wrote, built, and edited stories on LAmag.com and was  responsible for the magazine’s yearly LA Woman package, which highlights 10 outstanding female leaders in Los Angeles.

Herbst is a graduate of Oberlin College, where she was editor in chief of the Oberlin Review.

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