Business Insider using Google Chrome to attract more readers
Business Insider launched its first Google Chrome extension Wednesday, designed to give desktop internet users a chance to get a snapshot of what’s just been published on the site, reports Max Willens of Digiday. Willens writes, “Here’s how it works: After readers install the extension on their computer’s browsers, every new tab they open won’t just have Google’s […]
How Bloomberg Technology continues to roll out new features
Aki Ito, Bloomberg Technology’s digital editor, talks about the new Technology site, highlighting some of the newer features like the Bloomberg Startups Barometer. Here is an excerpt: Q: Since the Bloomberg Technology launch, you’ve rolled out a newsletter, a podcast, a video series on robots, live video shows, and new data tools. So, the launch […]
Bankrate.com seeks associate editor
Bankrate.com is looking for a sharp, innovative editor. Working with our team of senior editors, the associate editor will help manage the in-house reporting team for one of the most authoritative publications in the personal finance industry. Ideal candidates will have experience editing content for consumers and innovating award-winning projects. Social media experience is necessary, […]
Bankrate.com seeks optimization editor
Bankrate.com, one of the most authoritative publications in the personal finance industry, is looking for a sharp, innovative editor to ensure our content is packaged and promoted so it can succeed on all distribution channels, including on-site, social media and search engines. Ideal candidates will have experience programming web content, editing content for consumers and […]
Crain’s Detroit to put more content behind paywall in 2017
Crain’s Detroit Business plans to put more of its content behind its paywall in 2017, writes publisher Mary Kramer. Kramer writes, “Print advertising accounts for well over 50 percent of our revenue at Crain’s — the revenue that helps to support our terrific newsroom. But we also post about 100 stories a week on our website, crainsdetroit.com, […]
Money seeks senior digital editor
Money, the leading personal finance brand in print and online, is looking for an experienced digital editor to assign and edit dynamic service content for Money.com. This editor will help coach a small team of staff reporters and writers, in addition to freelancers, and be expected to generate story ideas and brainstorm new initiatives that […]
WSJ believes flexible paywall will bring in more subscribers
The Wall Street Journal is betting that its flexible paywall will bring in more paying subscribers, reports Shan Wang of the Nieman Lab. Wang writes, “More than 50 percent of the Journal’s subscription sales now come from individual articles like the 4 a.m. story, a ‘considerably higher percentage’ than before the Journal changed up its paywall strategy, […]
Poets & Quants and the growth of biz school coverage
John Byrne, the editor in chief of business school news site Poets & Quants, has the distinction of creating the first business school ranking back in 1988 for Businessweek. Business school rankings have since become a cottage industry for business news media, with lists being pumped out on a regular basis by Forbes, U.S. News, […]
Nerdwallet seeks mortgage markets reporter
Nerdwallet is looking for a writer to write about how financial markets affect U.S. housing. You’ll cover the impact of macroeconomic events on bond and other financial markets and explain how those impacts affect mortgage rates, home prices and other homeownership issues. Your brief will be wide: Federal Reserve rate moves, EU referenda, economic indicators, […]
Explaining the strategy behind Barron’s Next
Alex Eule is a senior editor at Barron’s and the person in charge of Barron’s Next, the financial newspapers website that focused on millennial investors. Eule has been at Barron’s for more than a decade as a staff writer and a senior editor. He also worked as an interactive news assistant at The Wall Street Journal. […]
