Edwards hired as editorial director for DLNews
Jim Edwards, who was the founding editor of Business Insider UK, has been hired as editorial director for DLNews, a new cryptocurrency news service. He most recently has been editor in chief of news at Insider before leaving earlier this year. He had been at the company for more than 10 years. Edwards joined Business Insider in […]
Endpoints founder Carroll: We will remain independent
John Carroll, the founder and editor of biopharmaceutical news site Endpoints, writes about its future with the hiring of former Bloomberg News journalist Drew Armstrong as its executive editor. Carroll writes, “This hasn’t been a quick hire, and while I often wished it had gone faster, I appreciate now more than ever the chance I had to […]
BusinessDen.com seeks a reporter
BusinessDen.com, an online business news site covering Denver, seeks an experienced reporter to join our growing newsroom. This position would cover a variety of beats, from residential real estate to tech startups to new restaurant and retail leases in the hottest parts of town. We’re a subscription-only publication and have thousands of paid subscribers because we […]
Ingram’s Kansas City seeks an editor to launch a digital portfolio
Ingram’s, a nationally recognized business magazine based in Kansas City with an executive readership of nearly 105,000, Can You Build Something Great? Are you passionate about rolling up your sleeves and creating a digital portfolio from a locally owned media brand that has been covering Kansas and Missouri news for almost 50 years ? Are […]
How Fast Company reacted to being hacked
Brendan Vaughan, the editor in chief of Fast Company, writes about how the magazine responded to being hacked. Vaughan writes, “We care deeply about fulfilling that mission. We also take seriously our commitments to advertisers, who seek to reach the audience we’ve built. To be sidelined for more than a week was a difficult experience […]
Fast Company shuts website after hack
Fast Company shut its website on Tuesday after it was hacked, reports Richard Lawler of The Verge. Lawler writes, “An article posted to Fast Company’s website before it disappeared included a message from ‘postpixel,’ describing at length how they were able to execute the attack and deriding attempts to secure the outlet’s publishing tools. The message claims they […]
BusinessDen.com seeks a commercial real estate reporter
BusinessDen.com, an online business news site covering Denver, seeks an experienced, energetic reporter to cover commercial real estate, our publication’s most important beat. You will scour public records and, critically, develop sources by building a network of developers, brokers and others in the industry. This position offers the chance to cover major deals in a major league […]
NerdWallet generates traffic (but not profits) by focusing its content
Jessica Tee Orika of Foundation writes about how personal finance site NerdWallet generates $84 million in traffic to its site every month — though her enthusiasm fails to account for the company’s poor financial performance on Wall Street. Orika writes, “NerdWallet clustered their content pieces around nine topics relevant to the searcher’s intent. Yeah, you heard […]
Crypto news site The Block rolls out token-based paywall
Cryptocurrency news site The Block is moving parts of its consumer paywall exclusively to a crypto token model, reports Sara Fischer of Axios. Fischer reports, “It becomes the first newsroom to launch a tokenized paywall within a new industry framework called the Access Protocol, which allows consumers to buy multiple media or creator subscriptions via a uniform […]
More than 100 million monthly visits to Dow Jones sites
News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson made the following comments during the company earnings conference call about its Dow Jones business: Advertising at Dow Jones remained strong in the fourth quarter and was a significant contributor to the segment throughout the year. Total advertising at Dow Jones achieved year-over-year growth of 20% for the full year, […]
