Entertainment biz site The Wrap is adding a subscription product
The Wrap, journalist Sharon Waxman’s nine-year-old entertainment business news site, is building a subscription product by buying a subscription site, reports Peter Kafka of Recode. Kafka writes, “The Wrap has acquired VideoInk, a niche pub covering the ins and outs of digital media, and the digital video business in particular. VideoInk, which currently sells subscriptions for $30 per month, […]
Q&A: How Callaway has turned around TheStreet.com
David Callaway is the chief executive officer of TheStreet.com, a financial news company launched in the 1990s. He joined TheStreet in 2016 after the company had experienced years of losses and increased competition for readers of news about the stock market and investing. In the past two years, Callaway has overhauled its operations, laying off […]
FitSmallBusiness.com seeks a tech editor
Marc Waring Ventures, the company behind the small business resource website FitSmallBusiness.com, is seeking a full-time Tech Editor to join our editorial team. Recently named to the Inc. 500 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies, FitSmallBusiness.com is read by over 1.5 Million small business owners and managers each month. We are a profitable, NYC-based startup with […]
Business Insider’s Carlson explains its growth strategy: Great stories from inside companies
When Business Insider global editor in chief Nicholas Carlson joined what was then a fledgling site called Silicon Alley Insider in October 2008, he saw how AOL employees would come to the website to look for news about the company. The reason: It had broken news about layoffs at the company before executives could notify the workers. […]
Journal of Commerce to Freight Waves: Stop linking to us
The executive editor of the Journal of Commerce has told Freight Waves, a website that tracks the freight industry, to stop linking to its content in its stories. John Paul Hampstead of Freight Waves writes, “One of our staff writers covered a story we’ve written about for months—the trucker strike that crippled Brazil and its aftermath—and […]
Afrotech to cover black innovators and entrepreneurs
John Ketchum has been hired as managing editor of Afrotech.com, which will now cover black innovators and entrepreneurs. Ketchum writes, “My career in media over the past several years has been diverse, to say the least. I’ve worked in public and commercial media. I’ve worked in daily news and investigative shops. I’ve worked for legacy companies […]
Business Insider moving some content to Insider, adding staff positions
Nicholas Carlson, global editor in chief and chief content officer at Business Insider, sent out the following to the staff on Wednesday: Hello! Congratulations on the stunning work so far this summer. We had a record 4 billion video views in July. We’re on a record pace for visitors to our websites this month. But […]
Investopedia is laying off a third of its staff
Personal finance site Investopedia.com plans to lay off one third of its staff, reports Graham Rapier of Markets Insider. Rapier reports, “In a New York State WARN notice dated July 31, the company said the firing of 36 of the financial encyclopedia’s 96 employees was due to economic reasons and that the employees were not unionized. “IAC’s stock price […]
How CoinDesk has become profitable
Kia Kokalitcheva of Axios writes about CoinDesk and how it has generated $20 million in revenue in the first seven months of the year and become profitable with an editorial staff of 25. Kokalitcheva writes, “CoinDesk was born in May 2013 as the brainchild of entrepreneur and investor Shakil Khan, who had been interested in bitcoin […]
American Inno seeks a reporter in Colorado
Colorado Inno is a new digital media and events company focused on local startups, technology and innovation. We are set to launch in late September, 2018. (Colorado Inno will be part of the American Inno network, which currently has presence in 10 markets – Boston, Chicago, DC, Austin, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Richmond, Wisconsin and Rhode Island). We are looking for […]
