Tech Insider promotes Shontell to executive editor
Business Insider co-founder and editor in chief Henry Blodget sent out the following announcement on Tuesday morning: Hello, everyone! We’re excited to announce that we’re promoting Alyson Shontell to Executive Editor of Tech Insider. Alyson will work closely with Editor-in-Chief Gus Lubin, Managing Editor Emily Cohn, and the Tech Insider team. Tech Insider has seen […]
Business Insider names new editorial management
Business Insider co-founder and editor in chief Henry Blodget sent out the following announcement on Tuesday morning: Hello, everyone! We are excited to announce our new leadership team for Business Insider US, along with many other well-deserved promotions. In an era in which most news organizations are laying off journalists and otherwise cutting back, we have grown […]
Quartz promotes Seward to SVP, Antunes to EE, Landy to ME
Quartz editor in chief Kevin Delaney sent out the following announcement on Monday: Hello Quartz – I wanted to share with you a few coming changes to how our product, technology, and editorial teams are managed. We’re making these changes as a result of our accelerated growth of the past few years and in anticipation […]
How Emily Chang got to Bloomberg Television
A.J. Katz of TVNewser.com interviewed Bloomberg Television anchor Emily Chang about her career. Here is an excerpt: TVNewser: Thanks for taking the time, Emily. Talk to us about your career path. Chang: In college, I got an internship at my local station in Honolulu one summer, and I just fell in love with broadcast news, reporting and storytelling. […]
What does the turnover at Business Insider mean?
Tom Kludt of CNNMoney.com writes about the recent turnover at Business Insider, which has lost some of its top editors and reporters in the past two months. Kludt writes, “Blodget, a former stock analyst who agreed to a lifetime ban from the securities industry to settle allegations that he gave out fraudulent advice, tried to […]
Milwaukee Biz Journal publisher to retire
Milwaukee Business Journal publisher Mark Sabljak announced Thursday that he will retire in mid-June, writes editor Mark Kass. Kass writes, “Sabljak, who has been publisher of the news publication for more than 22 years, will retire June 10. He said he was most proud of the evolution of the paper’s newsroom from a print operation to one that […]
Real estate staffer Carlyle leaving Forbes
Erin Carlyle, who has covered real estate for Forbes for the past two years, is leaving the magazine. Here is the email she sent to her colleagues: Tomorrow is my last day at Forbes. I am leaving to take a job at Houzz, a Palo Alto, Calif., start-up within walking distance of my apartment, where […]
CNBC hires Goudreau from Business Insider to be web ME
Jay Yarow, senior vice president and executive editor of CNBC Digital, sent out the following staff hire announcement on Wednesday afternoon: I am thrilled to announce Jenna Goudreau will be joining CNBC from Business Insider effective May 17. Reporting directly to me, Jenna will be a Managing Editor overseeing strategy and execution of CNBC Make It, the network’s new […]
Quartz reporter Backman leaves for New Yorker
Melvin Backman, a reporter at Quartz, has left the financial news site to become a fact checker at The New Yorker. Backman had joined Quartz in November 2014 as part of its finance and markets reporting team. He previously had been at CNN Money where he covered a wide range of financial and corporate news. Prior […]
Upbin, Forbes’ ME for tech coverage, leaving for Hyperloop Technologies
Bruce Upbin, the managing editor at Forbes overseeing tech coverage, is leaving the business magazine after 20-plus years to join tech company Hyperloop Technologies, a magazine spokeswoman confirmed to Talking Biz News. “Since the beginning of the year, we have increased our workforce by more than 30 employees,” said spokeswoman Laura Daunis. “We will continue […]
