NewYorker.com seeks business editor
Condé Nast seeks an editor for a staff position on newyorker.com. Overview/Purpose The function of the editor position is to assign and edit posts for the Currency blog to New Yorker staff writers and freelancers. Primary Responsibilities The online editor will be responsible for assigning, editing, and publishing Currency blog posts. Candidates should have the […]
Mashable hires Flynn as tech reporter
Kerry Flynn, a former tech reporter for the International Business Times, has been hired to cover tech for Mashable. She will start on Monday, July 25. Flynn will report to will business editor Jason Abbruzzese. At the International Business Times, she focused on social media companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat, mobile apps and startups and how they affect […]
Law360 editorial staff votes to unionize
The editorial staff of legal news website Law360 on Tuesday petitioned for union representation with The NewsGuild of New York. An overwhelming majority of the roughly 130 reporters, editors, and news assistants and apprentices at Law360 across the United States signed on to the drive for Guild representation. They called on management to voluntarily recognize […]
Business Insider has hit 100M monthly unique visitors
John Ore, senior vice president of product for Business Insider, gave a talk recently at Mobile Moments NYC 2016 about its distribution strategy. Here is an excerpt: As a digital-native publisher, our storytelling is not constrained by legacy media, like print or broadcast, so we have the freedom to use the most compelling digital narrative devices — video, graphics, […]
Bloomberg Media jumps back to No. 1 in video
Bloomberg Media returned to the No. 1 spot in global business video, according to comScore’s business and finance category in May. In addition, Bloomberg Media recorded an all-time high in global video streams. CNBC.com had been No. 1 the previous month. With 18.4 million unique viewers worldwide, Bloomberg’s video audience grew 31 percent month-over-month. Video […]
Fortune.com promotes three to deputy digital editor, hires five
Fortune.com editor Aaron Task sent out the following announcement on Monday: All: Here’s latest on Fortune.com staff moves: PROMOTIONS: Andrew Nusca, Stephen Gandel and Pam Kruger have each been named Deputy Digital Editor of Fortune.com. Andrew, Stephen and Pam have each played a critical role in Fortune.com’s growth since its launch and have proven to […]
NerdWallet expanding into investigations, hires Heikes
Personal finance site NerdWallet is expanding into investigative journalism. The San Francisco-based site has hired away Los Angeles Times’ investigative and projects editor Drex Heikes to lead that effort. It was his second stint at the Times. In his first 18 years at the newspaper, he worked as executive editor of the Los Angeles Times […]
Quartz set to hit $30 million in revenue this year
Financial news site Quartz is set to hit $30 million in revenue in 2016, up from $18.6 million last year, reports Jeremy Barr of Ad Age. Barr writes, “Quartz is on pace to bring in more than $30 million in revenue this year, having already booked $25 million, the person said. It is selling high-polish display ads […]
Modern Healthcare reporter joins LinkedIn
Beth Kutscher, the former California bureau chief for Modern Healthcare, has been hired by LinkedIn to cover the industry. Kutscher writes, “Before I joined LinkedIn as our first healthcare news editor, I was on a traditional journalism path. Over the past decade, I’ve had the chance to cover some of the biggest upheavals in healthcare, […]
Yahoo Finance has been redesigned
Yahoo Finance, the No. 1 business news site in terms of visitors, unveiled a redesign on Thursday. The new design features bigger headlines, bigger photos and fewer modules. For example, Yahoo Finance has combined the watch list, portfolios and popular market data such as top gainers and losers into a configurable dashboard where consumers can add, remove […]
