VentureBeat hires new reporter
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE VentureBeat founder and editor Matt Marshall sent out the following announcement to the staff on Tuesday: We’re excited to announce that Chikodi Chima has agreed to join VentureBeat as a staff writer, starting Monday. Chikodi is a recent graduate of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and he’s shown a lot […]
Gizmodo editor apologized to Jobs three weeks ago
Brian Lam, the former editor of the tech news site Gizmodo, writes about how he sent an apology to Steve Jobs three weeks ago for requiring Apple to send a letter to the tech site saying that the stolen iPhone it was reporting about was its property. Lam writes, “I’d walked around justifying how things […]
Law360 expands coverage into new areas
Law360.com, a news site that covers business law and high-level litigation, has expanded its coverage into new areas. The new sections include mergers and acquisitions, private equity, real estate and project finance. M&A is an expansion of the corporate finance area, while private equity and real estate will launch in October. The project finance section […]
Tech news site publisher raises $33 million
TechMediaNetwork, a publisher of a 16 science- and gadget-related online news sites, has raised $33 million in a second round as it looks to add its content roster with a series of acquisitions, reports David Kaplan of PaidContent.org. Kaplan writes, “This is a pretty large amount for a niche publishing outfit. Nevertheless, the company’s sites […]
Bloomberg Law becomes exclusive sponsor of SCOTUSblog
Bloomberg Law announced Monday an agreement with the SCOTUSblog where it will become the exclusive sponsor of the blog that covers the Supreme Court. The content available on the SCOTUSblog website will also be made available on Bloomberg Law, and SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein will provide exclusive business analysis for Bloomberg Law. Goldstein writes, “The […]
TechCrunch founder starts new blog
Michael Arrington, the founder of the TechCrunch tech news blog, has started a new blog after his ouster from AOL due to conflict of interest concerns. Arrington writes, “That was never enough to stop the journalism community’s antibodies from hitting TechCrunch hard over all the conflicts of interest that were inherently part of who I […]
Why Business Insider is doing so well
John Carney of CNBC.com writes about why the Business Insider site, where he once worked, has been so successful. Carney writes, “Business Insider is an internally competitive place to work. The editors compete with each other on who can get the best stories and most pageviews. You hear them talking smack to each other in the […]
Business Insider’s business plan for growth
Ryan McCarthy writes for Reuters.com about Business Insider’s strategy in the wake of its announcement Thursday that it had secured $7 million in additional funding. McCarthy writes, “None of this is intended to say Business Insider doesn’t do some very smart web journalism. Joe Weisenthal, in particular, appears to work inhuman hours and is one […]
Business Insider raises $7 million from investors
The Business Insider financial and economic news operation has raised $7 million from a group of investors, writes editor and founder Henry Blodget. Blodget writes, “We’re also thrilled to welcome a new investor, Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), to our team. “IVP led the round. They are one of the premiere venture firms in the country, […]
TechCrunch writer quits after Arrington leaves
Diana Samuels of the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal reports that TechCrunch writer Paul Carr has quit because he doesn’t want to work for new editor Erick Schofield. Samuels writes, “Carr wrote that while TechCrunch’s staffers were “making a stand for the site’s editorial independence” from Huffington Post and AOL content boss Arianna Huffington, Schonfeld […]
