Business Insider editor in chief Nicholas Carlson plans to leave this summer, reports Maxwell Tani of Semafor.
Tani reports, “Carlson has been the global editor-in-chief of the digital news outlet since 2017.
“But there have been moments of doubt between the current parent company and Carlson’s leadership. Semafor reported last week that Mathias Döpfner, CEO of BI parent Axel Springer, considered firing Carlson during the backlash to the publication’s article about billionaire businessman Bill Ackman’s wife’s academic writing, which BI reported contained instances of plagiarism. Carlson did not respond to a request for comment.”
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