CNBC.com seeks a managing editor
CNBC, the recognized world leader in business news, is seeking an experienced Managing Editor to help steer continuous news coverage at CNBC.com. Reporting directly to the Executive Editor of CNBC Digital, the Managing Editor of CNBC.com will supervise the digital news team — setting daily coverage priorities and planning longer-term enterprise. This key role is […]
How Quartz is looking for revenue opportunities
Lucinda Southern of Digiday looks at how Quartz is expanding its revenue opportunities. Southern writes, “Quartz is a defender of the ad-supported model but will be launching a paid-for product in the next couple of months. Exactly how this will look, whether it’s a regular subscription or one-off products, is still to be determined, but it will […]
How Bloomberg Media is getting homepage traffic
Lucia Moses of Digiday writes about how Bloomberg Media is regaining traffic to its home page. Moses writes, “When it relaunched its technology vertical in October, Bloomberg decided to ditch the infinite scroll at the end of articles and send people to the vertical’s homepage instead. “‘The trend across media is the slow decline of direct […]
Vox seeks economic policy reporter in DC
Vox.com is seeking a reporter to cover how economic policy affects workers, families, and businesses across America. With a new administration in Washington, and at a moment of great social, economic and political division, Vox is expanding its policy team in order to deliver more ambitious and deeply reported stories for its audience — stories […]
Business Insider launches sub-Saharan site
Business Insider announced Friday that it will launch a sub-Saharan version of its site in conjunction with Ringier Africa Digital Publishing. The site will debut on Jan. 23. Business Insider Sub Saharan Africa will be operated by Ringier Africa under its Pulse new media brand. The Pulse brand also publishes Men’s Health across Africa, and Women’s Health in […]
Quartz is working on a subscription product
Quartz is developing a subscription product, reports Peter Kafka or Recode. Kafka writes, “Delaney won’t go into details about what that product is, how much it will cost or when it will launch. But Quartz has given a hint by announcing the purchase of Intelligentsia.ai, a small research firm that specialized in artificial intelligence. “Quartz says founders […]
Business Insider launches Japan site
Roddy Salazar of Business Insider writes about its new site for Japan. Salazar writes, “Readers in Japan will automatically be redirected to the Japanese site. “BI Japan publishes in Japanese and is headquartered in Tokyo. It is published by Mediagene, a digital media company that has already successfully launched local editions of digiday.jp, lifehacker.jp and […]
“Marketplace” recasts itself as a multimedia enterprise
Tyler Falk of Current writes about how the public radio business news show “Marketplace” is remaking itself. Falk writes, “EP Deborah Clark described the strategic plan as a ‘transformation from a suite of radio programs and a digital presence’ into an enterprise that spins off ‘different kinds of brand extensions, whether that’s curriculum or events […]
Quartz’s focus on the global business professional
Jack Marshall of The Wall Street Journal interviewed Quartz publisher Jay Lauf about its strategy. Marshall writes, “As a result, Quartz decided to shun standardized banner ads and to avoid selling its ad space through intermediaries, opting instead to sell custom ad formats and sponsored content directly to marketers and their agencies. “Another benefit of […]
American Banker rolls out redesigned website
American Banker, which dropped its daily print edition a year ago, has rolled out a redesigned website on Thursday. Editor Marc Hochstein said the goal of the redesign was to “deliver a modern, user-friendly online experience.” “The new site is just so much cleaner looking and easier to navigate,” said Hochstein in an interview with […]
