Myers named editor in chief of personal finance site The Balance
Kristin Myers, a Yahoo Finance anchor who left earlier this month, has been named editor in chief of personal finance site The Balance. The Balance was founded in 2016 and has more than 19 million monthly visitors. “I am so excited to take this next step in my career and to continue having important conversations […]
How Quartz is using membership to fund journalism
Aisha Majid of The Press Gazette writes about how Quartz is using a membership model to fund its journalism. Majid writes, “While on the face of it Quartz’s membership programme might more closely resemble a subscription (the content is behind a paywall), Frick says that the publication’s relationship with readers is more than just transactional. “‘The […]
Digital media startup Puck hires business journalists
Puck, a new digital media company that plans to cover the intersection of America’s power centers: Hollywood, Silicon Valley, New York City and Washington, has hired at least four business journalists, reports Sara Fischer of Axios. They are: Dylan Byers, formerly a senior media reporter at NBC News for the past three years. He also worked […]
Reuters adds new sections to its website
Reuters has introduced a series of new editorial sections to its update, including the global economic recovery, the future of health, next-gen technology and more. Editors of each section will curate news and specialist insights, offering both depth and breadth on the issues that shape the future of our personal and professional lives. The new […]
PYMNTS seeks a senior business reporter
Respected digital news publication seeks senior business reporter/writer who can either pitch, source, and deliver stories and breaking news articles OR easily embrace wide-ranging assignments for a daily newsletter and website that serves as the global payments and e-commerce industry’s go-to news source. Successful candidates will have strong business reporting experience, be comfortable juggling diverse […]
Tech news site Futurism has been acquired
Recurrent Ventures is set to announce later on Monday that it has purchased Futurism, the tech and culture-focused news site previously owned by Singularity University, a Google and Deloitte-backed technology business, reports Maxwell Tani and Lachlan Cartwright of The Daily Beast. Tani and Cartwright report, “The purchase of Futurism marks the latest acquisition for Recurrent Ventures, […]
Saskatchewan biz news site launches
AllSaskatchewan.com, a business news site covering the Canadian province, has launched. Alex MacPherson, a Saskatchewan business journalist, leads a team that includes Peter Lozinski, also in Saskatoon and Evan Radford and Nathan Meyer in Regina. The online publication will follow the subscription model successfully established in Atlantic Canada back in 2001. AllSaskatchewan is available at […]
FoxBusiness.com has strong second quarter
FoxBusiness.com reported double-digit increases in multiplatform views and multiplatform total minutes in the second quarter, according to comScore data. Both views and total minutes rose 14 percent versus the second quarter of 2020, delivering 340 million total multiplatform views and 591 million multiplatform total minutes. In June, FoxBusiness.com secured 22.5 million multiplatform unique visitors and […]
Top biz news sites see decline in readership
Almost all of the top news websites have seen double-digit declines in readership in the past year, and the business news websites are no exception, according to comScore data. Business Insider reported 60.9 million unique visitors in June, down 12.3 percent from its 69.4 million unique visitors in May and down 31.2 percent from its […]
Ex-Quartz cofounders launch new venture covering work
Former Quartz co-founders Kevin Delaney and Jay Lauf have launched a new venture called Charter covering the future of work, reports Sara Fischer of Axios. Fischer reports, “‘There are other media companies that write about this topic — some occasionally and some more frequently, but it’s one topic among many things that they do,’ Delaney said. ‘This is […]
