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, […]
Firm working for Florida energy company controlled news site
Operatives working for Florida Power & Light gained control over a Tallahassee-based news website, making editorial decisions about its content – and allowing executives at the utility to influence coverage, report Annie Martin and Mario Alejandro Ariza of the Orlando Sentinel. Martin and Ariza report, “The site, which is published by Brian Burgess – who was previously the […]
San Antonio Biz Journal seeks a digital editor
The San Antonio Business Journal, a thriving and growing news organization in the country’s seventh-largest city, is looking for a full-time Digital Editor. The position is the gatekeeper for all digital content, working directly with a seasoned team of reporters to curate, edit and publish content on multiple platforms. The Digital Editor also reports and writes […]
Insider, Forbes and Reuters are top biz news sites in UK
Insider, Forbes and Reuters top the list of the UK’s most popular websites for business news, according to Press Gazette reporter Aisha Majid. Majid reports, “According to data compiled by Ipsos iris, The Insider Inc brand which includes the website businessinsider.com and general news side insider.com reached 4.6 million people over 15 in the UK […]
