TheStreet investor calls for CEO resignation, board seats
Spear Point Capital Management, which owns 1.8 million shares, or 5.1 percent, of TheStreet.com, sent the following letter to the financial news company’s lead independent director on Wednesday: Board of Directors TheStreet, Inc. 14 Wall Street, 15th Floor New York, New York 10005 Attention: Mark Walsh, Lead Independent Director Re: Strategic Transactions, Replacement of CEO […]
Huffington Post seeks business reporter
The Huffington Post is seeking a Business Reporter who can identify compelling business stories and help deliver them to a wide readership. Responsibilities: Selecting standout blog posts, submitted to the site, for feature treatment Reading the blogosphere widely to identify new voices for the site Recruiting bloggers and giving them a welcoming introduction to the […]
LexisNexis buys regulatory news wire MLex
LexisNexis has bought the regulatory news wire MLex for an undisclosed sum, reports Nicholas Hirst and Ryan Heath of Politico. Hirst and Heath write, “MLex is a subscription-based wire service providing breaking news and intelligence about regulatory developments. “Established in July 2005 by former Bloomberg journalist Robert McLeod, an Australian, and Briton Duncan Lumsden, the […]
Henry Blodget and the golden age of journalism
Jessica Pressler of New York magazine writes about Business Insider co-founder and editor in chief Henry Blodget as it expands with tech news site Tech Insider. Pressler writes, “One imagines that being able to generate love at the click of a button is particularly intoxicating for Blodget, who is still ‘deeply scarred,’ he says, ‘by […]
Mergermarket seeks utilities and mining reporter
Mergermarket and DealReporter are looking to hire an energetic and curious journalist to cover M&A in the energy, utilities and mining sectors. A successful candidate will aggressively cover corporate strategy in the context of M&A and develop sources among CEOs, bankers, lawyers and advisors in order to pen original scoops on deals in the works, […]
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 […]
Tech Insider has an editorial staff of more than 30
Gus Lubin, an executive editor at Business Insider, writes about the launch of Tech Insider and notes that it has an editorial staff of more than 30. Lubin writes, “We’re launching today as a digital publication focused on tech, science, innovation, and culture. We aim to go deep into these areas and tell the stories that […]
Business Insider launching Tech Insider
Lukas Alpert of The Wall Street Journal writes Monday about Tech Insider, the new tech news site from Business Insider, and its upcoming general news site called The Insider. Alpert writes, “The immediate challenge for Tech Insider is that it will be joining a crowded tech media space that has already shown signs of consolidation. […]
Debtwire seeks IPO reporter
Debtwire ABS is seeking an experienced financial markets journalist to cover secondary trading of securitized products and mortgages. Primary coverage markets will include non-agency residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS), whole residential mortgages and mortgage servicing rights (MSRs). Coverage will also include secondary trading of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), CDO liquidations and secondary trading of collateralized […]
CNBC Digital posts record June
CNBC’s digital operation posted its best June with 19.2 million unique visitors, up 55 percent compared to last year at this time, according to the June 2015 comScore Multi-platform Report US. CNBC is the No. 8 business and financial news site in terms of visitors. Yahoo Finance is No. 1 with 54.9 million unique visitors. […]
