Business Insider units consolidating under Turner

Bron Maher of Press Gazette writes about the impact of the Business Insider layoffs within the news organization.

Maher writes, “A memo distributed following editor-in-chief Nicholas Carlson’s address to the newsroom late on Thursday said the unified news, business and life team will be led by former business division head Matt Turner, who has been promoted to Business Insider’s deputy editor-in-chief. The two video teams have also been merged.

“‘These consolidations and our smaller staff size greatly reduced our need for managers, which is why some editor roles have been eliminated today in the US,’ the memo added.

“A spokesperson for Business Insider’s NUJ chapel said six editorial roles in the UK are under consultation. They added that all those roles are occupied by women or people of colour.

“In a statement issued subsequently, the chapel said it was ‘concerned about declining mental well-being of journalists, many of whom no longer feel they can trust leadership has their best interests at heart.”

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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.