Yahoo Finance Canada reporter Bains departs
Jessy Bains, a reporter at Yahoo Finance Canada, has left and joined LinkedIn as Canada news editor. In his new role, Bains will be covering and curating trending and breaking Canadian news. Prior to joining Yahoo Finance, Bains was at CBC, where he was the lead writer for “On The Money with Peter Armstrong,” a […]
What’s behind LinkedIn’s editorial strategy
Lauren Johnson of Insider examines LinkedIn’s content strategy. Johnson writes, “LinkedIn’s journalists focus on five topics: Technology, healthcare, finance, small business, and frontline workers. At the center of the company’s editorial growth is a product called Daily Rundown that breaks down daily news topics and shows what people are saying about them. LinkedIn says that Daily […]
LinkedIn hires Fortune’s Moore
Fortune magazine’s McKenna Moore has been hired by LinkedIn News as an associate news editor of global projects. She will start Dec. 6. Her last day at Fortune is Nov. 17. She has been an audience editor and reporter at Fortune. Moore previously had a web production internship at Fortune and a reporting internship at ALM Media […]
Chambers joins LinkedIn as a news editor
LinkedIn has tapped Jenna N. Chambers as a news editor, working on audience engagement and distribution strategy for the LinkedIn News team. She joins from Medium, where she was most recently an editorial manager, platform content. Before that, she served as an audience engagement editor and assistant audience engagement editor. She was also a tech […]
The strategy behind LinkedIn News and its content
Freddy Mayhew of Press Gazette interviewed LinkedIn News editor in chief Daniel Roth about its strategy. Mayhew writes, “Roth, a seasoned business journalist who worked at Forbes, Wired and spent several years at Fortune Magazine before joining LinkedIn, is currently editor-in-chief and vice president of LinkedIn News. “Explaining LinkedIn News’ model, he said: ‘The way I think […]
LinkedIn Editorial changes name to LinkedIn News
LinkedIn is changing the name of its editorial team from LinkedIn Editorial to LinkedIn News after undergoing a redesign to bring more visual consistency to the vertical, reports David Cohen of Adweek. Cohen reports, “‘The global editorial team plays a central part in LinkedIn’s professional community: creating original content and helping to cultivate and spread the […]
Harding joins LinkedIn as producer of “Business Unusual” show
LinkedIn has appointed Jillian Harding as the new producer of the “Business Unusual” show hosted by Caroline Fairchild. Previously, Harding was working as a producer at Yahoo Finance developing new processes to coordinate logistics and execution of major events. She has also served as digital video producer/writer at CBS Money Watch. She has also worked […]
Microsoft replacing CEO of LinkedIn
The CEO of Microsoft’s LinkedIn business, Jeff Weiner, will be replaced by its product executive, Ryan Roslansky. Weiner will be stepping down from his role after 11 years with Roslansky taking on his new role starting June 1. Roslansky has been with LinkedIn for more than 10 years and will report to Microsoft CEO Satya […]
LinkedIn is increasing its journalism pool
Dan Roth, editor-in-chief, LinkedIn, envisions the company as the perfect “utility” for professionals. To achieve this, Roth has hired a team of journalists and empowered them with tools necessary to discover original stories and to make those stories available to the right audience. “LinkedIn should help you be better at what you do or what […]
Amy Chen leaves Linkedin, joins Airbnnb
Amy Chen, the managing editor at Linkedin Travel and Special Projects, is leaving her position to join Airbnb. “When I joined in Nov. 2012 as a San Francisco-based contractor, I had no idea I’d be lucky enough to get to stay and see us surpass 600 million members — or grow to 60+ editors around […]
