CNNMoney posts third consecutive record month

CNNMoney.com saw record numbers in visitors, engagement and video in August. In August, CNNMoney hit the highest totals on record for both unique multi-platform visitors and minutes spent. It had 25 million multiplatform unique visitors, making it the No. 5 business and financial news website, according to the comScore Multi-Platform Report, August 2015. Its visitors […]
Politico’s Byers joining CNNMoney

Politico media reporter Dylan Byers has been hired by CNNMoney to cover the media industry. CNN’s Brian Stelter writes, “He’ll start on September 14, just in time for CNN’s Republican presidential primary debate on September 16. “Byers is a scoop machine. When I’ve been offline for more than a few hours, the way I see […]
CNNMoney posts record July

CNNMoney.com saw record numbers in visitors, engagement and video in July. In July, CNNMoney hit the highest totals on record for both unique multi-platform visitors and minutes spent. It had 23.7 million multiplatform unique visitors, moving ahead of Wall Street Journal Online and CNBC.com, according to the comScore Multi-Platform Report, June – July 2015. Its […]
Gogoi becomes CNNMoney’s markets and economy editor

CNNMoney.com executive editor Lex Haris sent out the following announcement on Thursday: Want more smart takes on the biggest money issues of the day? We have good news: Heather Long will now devote more time to reporting, writing and analysis. Heather has already – amazingly – found time to write in between all her other […]
CNNMoney hires multiplatform editor

CNNMoney.com executive editor Lex Haris sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: We are pleased to announce we have an overnight multi-platform editor: Rob McLean is joining us on August 24. Rob will be an important asset on two key fronts. First, there’s breaking news, catching it as it happens after-hours and setting us up […]
CNNMoney sees 38 percent increase in visitors since split

CNNMoney.com has seen a 38 percent rise in unique visitors since the website split from Time Inc. and became just a Time Warner property. The website reported 21.5 million multiplatform unique visitors in June, up from the 15.6 million visitors it had in June 2014, the last month it contained content from Fortune and Money […]
CNNMoney hires breaking news reporter

CNNMoney executive editor Lex Haris sent out the following staff hire on Thursday: CNNMoney has a new breaking news reporter: Ahiza Garacia joins on Monday, June 29. Ahiza comes to us from Talking Points Memo, where she writes…A LOT… on media and politics. She also knows sports, and got her Master’s from the Syracuse Newhouse School […]
CNNMoney seeks section editor

The Section Editor will lead a team of reporters and writers to produce stories of high relevance to the CNNMoney audience. The editor will also be responsible for conceiving of packages with high sponsorship appeal, and then coordinating with the business side, and executing on the concepts. The editor will also work close with colleagues […]
Livestreaming the jobs report

In a new effort, the homepage of CNNMoney.com featured Friday morning a livestream program called Jobs Day in America starting at 8:30 a.m., when the monthly unemployment data were released. The program will feature financial reporters Paul La Monica, Alison Kosik, Jose Pagliery and special guest Christine Romans. They broke down the report, deciphered what it means […]
CNNMoney relaunches media section

Brian Stelter of CNN writes about the relaunch of CNNMoney.com’s media coverage page and the strategy behind their coverage of that industry. Stelter writes, “When it comes to media coverage, we have a couple key advantages. One, we have a mandate to go and report, not just aggregate or opine. Two, we can report with […]