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Business Insider’s Barr to start tech newsletter

April 30, 2025

Posted by Chris Roush

Business Insider global technology editor Alistair Barr is starting a weekly tech newsletter.

Barr has been with Business Insider since 2021. He joined Bloomberg News in February 2016 and has been the Big Tech team leader, managing a team of reporters covering the largest U.S. technology companies, including Apple, Amazon and Google.

He also wrote about Google at the Wall Street Journal.

Barr was also a tech reporter for USA Today, and before that covered e-commerce at Reuters. Originally from Great Britain, he began his reporting on the finance side, working for Kiplinger’s, Bloomberg in London and then Marketwatch for several years before joining Reuters.

He won the Gerald Loeb Award in 2007 for his coverage of short selling and was a finalist in 2013 for scoops on the Facebook IPO.

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