Rosen, Pompliano launching Opening Bell Daily
Business journalist Phil Rosen and investor Anthony Pompliano are teaming up to launch Opening Bell Daily, an independent news and research outlet that aims to demystify markets, investing, and Wall Street — at no cost to readers. Rosen, a former senior reporter with Business Insider, will be the outlet’s lead editor. “I quit a job […]
Why Industry Dive’s focus is successful
Nicole Laporte of Fast Company examines the success of Industry Dive, which has dozens of industry-focused newsletters. Laporte writes, “Industry Dive’s business is built on taking the road less traveled, in this case creating curated, information-rich newsletters—or Dives—for industries that to the casual observer may seem boring. Think trucking, waste, or manufacturing. By targeting these underserved sectors, […]
FT CEO Ridding talks about business strategy
Sarah Scire of Nieman Lab interviewed Financial Times Group CEO John Ridding about its strategy and past growth. Here is an excerpt: SARAH SCIRE: You wanted to set the scene for us? And talk about the ownership model? JOHN RIDDING: I’m literally just off the plane back from Tokyo where we agreed on our plans and priorities for […]
The Verge’s Patel on keeping its audience happy
The Verge editor in chief Nilay Patel was interviewed on his “Decoder” podcast by Complexly co-founder and YouTuber Hank Green about the site. Here is an excerpt: That goes back to the conversation we were having before about audience and how do you imagine those people. Who are they in your head, and how do you feel […]
Business Insider CEO wants readers coming to site twice a week
Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng sent out the following to the staff on Thursday: Team, During our last all hands call, we unveiled our new “North Star” metric — 2+ Days on Site per week. Historically, our guiding metric has been “visits.” We used this metric to tell us what our audience loves and wants more […]
Washington Post taps Connelly as senior editor for AI strategy and innovation
Phoebe Connelly is taking on a new role as senior editor for AI strategy and innovation at the Washington Post. Connelly has spent two and a half years leading the Next Generation Initiative – a cross-functional team that helped the company reorient to serve the needs of younger audiences. The Next Gen team saw the […]
The success of MT Newswires — covering daily biz news
Joseph Di Stefano of The Philadelphia Inquirer looks at MT Newswires, a lesser-known competitor to Dow Jones Newswires and Bloomberg News. Di Stefano writes, “Ted Merz, who as head of Bloomberg LP’s product group inked a deal with McFeely to carry MT Newswires on Bloomberg’s global network of securities-trading terminals, is a fan. ‘It is […]
New business publication launches in Colorado
A new business journal — Jeffco Legends — plans to spotlight the business goings-on of Jefferson County, Colorado using data. Jeffco Legends will focus on telling stories with data — building and maintaining a database of local businesses, executives and real estate transactions and publishing data in list, chart and map formats. Boots-on-the-ground original reporting […]
Why tech site 404 Media began requiring email address from readers
Hanaa Tameez of Nieman Lab writes about 404 Media, the new tech news site founded by four former members of Motherboard. Tameez writes, “Until January, most stories from 404 Media were available to read for free. But after the four cofounders discovered — through their own reporting — that their stories were being scraped, paraphrased by AI text […]
Dow Jones CEO Latour bullish on subscriptions
Sarah Fischer of Axios interviewed Dow Jones & Co. CEO Almar Latour, who expressed continued optimism about growing subscriptions at its publications, which include The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com, Barron’s and Investor’s Business Daily. Fischer writes, “While most of WSJ’s subscription growth occurred during 2020 — a critical election year and the onset of the pandemic — […]
