Adweek hires Business Insider’s Joe as editor in chief

Adweek has named Ryan Joe as its new editor in chief. He will report to chief content officer Zoë Ruderman. Joe has covered the advertising industry extensively for more than 15 years, examining the challenges, practices, and business of data-driven marketing, most recently serving as senior advertising editor at Business Insider. “As our new editor […]

Barron’s hires Ungarino to cover Wall Street

Barron’s editor in chief David Cho sent out the following on Monday: All, We are excited to announce Rebecca Ungarino is joining Barron’s as the newsroom’s Wall Street reporter. Rebecca comes to us from Business Insider, where she served as a senior finance reporter covering asset management companies and other Wall Street firms. She produced several scoops on BlackRock, including […]

Business Insider’s Cunningham joins Newsweek as executive editor

Jennifer H. Cunningham has been hired by Newsweek to be executive editor. Cunningham will oversee all news content and strategy and report directly to global editor-in-chief Nancy Cooper. Cunningham will collaborate with a team that embodies the core values of fearless and responsible journalism. Cunningham was previously the editor-in-chief of the news division at Business […]

Business Insider entertainment editor Ahmed departs

Tufayel Ahmed, an entertainment editor at Business Insider, has left the news organization. Ahmed was previously a senior editor at Newsweek and news editor at PinkNews. He has also had bylines in CNN, The Independent (UK), Forbes, Yahoo, VICE and more. Tufayel is also a published author — his debut novel, “This Way Out” is […]

What we can learn from lawyer’s letter to Business Insider

Bill Grueskin, a longtime business journalist, writes for Columbia Journalism Review about what can be learned from the letter sent to Business Insider regarding its coverage of plagiarism allegations against Neri Oxman. Grueskin writes: Do give subjects of your complicated stories time to respond.  After BI’s first Oxman story ran, the site quickly assembled another […]

Boston Globe hires Siu as newsletter editor

The Boston Globe has hired Diamond Naga Siu as its newsletter editor. She previously ran the Business Insider “10 Things in Tech” newsletter. She joined Insider in 2021 as a senior tech reporter for App Ecosystem and then served as a senior tech reporter for Big Tech careers. Siu worked as a general assignment reporter, early career employee resource […]

Rose named chief editor at Dow Jones Newswires in Americas

Josée Rose has been hired by The Wall Street Journal as chief executive Dow Jones Newswires, Americas in New York. Se will start on March 18 and report to Chip Cummins. Most recently Rose was an executive editor at Business Insider, which she joined in 2021. Previously, Rose spent almost 20 years of experience at […]

Business Insider promotes de Graaf to deputy executive editor

Mia de Graaf has been promoted to a deputy executive editor at Business Insider. In this role, she continues to oversee health and health care coverage across the newsroom. She is now also in charge of features for the Life department, directing long-form stories on lifestyle and culture topics, including food, relationships, wellness, celebrities, internet […]

Ackman hires law firm to battle Business Insider

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman escalated his offensive against Business Insider in relation to stories alleging his wife committed plagiarism, deploying a law firm to increase pressure on the news outlet to correct or retract them, reports Bob Van Voris and Amanda Gordon of Bloomberg News. Van Voris and Gordon report, “‘We are providing you this demand to explain why […]

Business Insider CEO wants readers coming to site twice a week

Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng sent out the following to the staff on Thursday: Team, During our last all hands call, we unveiled our new “North Star” metric — 2+ Days on Site per week. Historically, our guiding metric has been “visits.” We used this metric to tell us what our audience loves and wants more […]