Bankrate.com seeks editors
Bankrate.com is looking for some top-notch editors with great writing, editing and people skills who want to develop the most awesome content team in personal finance. These are important lead editor positions — innovating with and managing an in-house reporting team for one of the most authoritative publications in the personal finance industry. Success includes […]
CNN working on West Coast tech news site
CNN is set to launch a new technology-focused vertical about the changing media landscape on the West Coast that will be called Pacific, writes Maxwell Tani of Business Insider. Tani writes, “The new franchise will be led by Senior Media Reporter Dylan Byers, and will focus on the powerful West Coast-based companies that have changed media, technology, and politics. […]
Cannabis industry news site wants to raise at least $1.5 million
Jeremy Berke of Business Insider writes about The Green Market Report, a new website covering financial news around the cannabis industry. Berke writes, “She added that they plan to raise between $1.5 and $2.5 million in the next six months as the site gains traction. The site’s revenue will be generated through advertising, and a […]
NY Times revamping tech site Wirecutter
The New York Times is combining the tech site Wirecutter — which it acquired a year ago — with its sister publication, the Sweethome, under the Wirecutter name, redesigning the website and planning for the Wirecutter and Times’s journalists to work together more often. Gerry Smith of Bloomberg News writes, “The Wirecutter’s success would be […]
New Jersey biz news site ROI-NJ launches
Tom Bergeron, the editor of ROI-NJ, a new site covering New Jersey business news, writes about what types of stories the publication will produce. Bergeron writes, “Our name stands for Return On Information. Our aim is to be known as the go-to source for business information that impacts, inspires and influences the state’s amazingly diverse […]
Biz journalist launches website covering cannabis industry
Longtime business journalist Debra Borchardt has started a website called The Green Market Report covering the cannabis industry. The site will publish news briefs on business, banking, cultivation and extraction issues, as well as cannabis company stock prices and wholesale cannabis prices. Borchardt has previously written for TheStreet.com, Women’s Wear Daily and Forbes, where she […]
MT Newswires seeks markets reporters and editors
A leading real time global markets financial news publisher is seeking energetic and experienced stock/equities news journalists and editors with experience covering the US and/or Canadian stock markets. This is a telecommute position for EXPERIENCED EDITORS & JOURNALISTS who have covered the financial markets in the US or Canada. There are currently several openings for this telecommute (part […]
Variety seeks deputy online editor
Variety is looking for a proven online editor who thrives in an extremely fast-paced setting. This exciting role is responsible for managing, editing and writing digital content for Variety’s award-winning website, as well as playing a key operational role. Duties: Oversee and develop daily/weekly content for Variety.com Work with other Web professionals, such as Web […]
Quartz now has 22 million monthly unique visitors
Business news site Quartz, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary, has grown to 22 million monthly unique visitors, writes editor in chief Kevin Delaney. Delaney writes, “When we launched Quartz, on Sept. 24, 2012, the world was just emerging from a financial crisis that made clear traditional ways of doing business would no longer stand. We […]
Business Insider’s Blodget: More engagement than growth
Business Insider co-founder and editor in chief Henry Blodget spoke at at Digiday podcast on the shifting goals of the business news websites. Aditi Sangal of Digiday writes, “On this week’s Digiday Podcast, CEO and co-founder of Business Insider Henry Blodget said the publisher, which has over 10 million followers across social media platforms, is not trying to grow […]
