Entertainment reporter Mangalindan departs Insider

J.P. Mangalindan, an entertainment reporter for Insider, has left the publication for a new opportunity. He has been with the company since June 2021 in its Los Angeles bureau. Over the last 15 years, Mangalindan’s work has appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, Fortune magazine, GQ magazine, TechCrunch, Mashable, Yahoo Finance, Entertainment Weekly, and Teen People. He has previously served as a senior reporter at Protocol, […]

Insider lays off media reporter Perlberg

Insider media reporter Steven Perlberg has been laid off from the news organization. He had been with Business Insider and Insider since 2020. Perlberg has previously been a freelance reporter based in Berlin writing about media, politics, business, culture, and other things. He previously worked for Business Insider, BuzzFeed and The Wall Street Journal. At the Journal, he covered digital media, […]

Insider is laying off 10 percent of its US staff

Barbara Peng, president of Insider, sent out the following on Thursday: Team, As you know, our industry has been under significant pressure for more than a year. The economic headwinds that have hurt many of our clients and partners are also affecting us. Unfortunately, to keep our company healthy and competitive, we need to reduce […]

Business Insider’s Campbell on covering financial companies

Russell Sherman of “Press Profiles” interviews Business Insider’s chief financial correspondent Dakin Campbell about his job and what stories he covers. “I’ve known for a couple of years now that my calls are not always welcome,” said Campbell, who previously worked at Bloomberg News. Campbell says he strives to be “super fair” to his subjects and his sources. […]

Insider EIC Carlson on using artificial intelligence in content

Insider editor in chief Nicholas Carlson sent out the following: Team– I’ve had conversations with many of you and others – sentient and non-sentient – about what role artificial intelligence should play in our newsroom. Everyone sees huge opportunities. And worrying challenges. I want this note to encourage you to be excited about the potential opportunities, try […]

Business Insider senior correspondent Sullivan leaving journalism

Casey Sullivan, a senior correspondent at Business Insider, has left. His post on LinkedIn reads: “After 13 years of journalism – from chasing scoops about the collapse of Dewey & LeBoeuf, to digging into the cultures of Paul Weiss, Quinn Emanuel and Boies Schiller – I’m leaving the industry to pursue a different career. “I’ll […]

AI and big data reporter Lynley departs Insider

Matthew Lynley, who covered artificial intelligence and big data for Insider, has left to work on a solo project. He had been with the site for the past year and was based in San Francisco. Lynley has spent the last three years as a research analyst and data analyst for Pluralsight, A Cloud Gury and […]

Business Insider’s Dunn leaves for new opportunity

Senior health care reporter Andrew Dunn has left Business Insider for a new opportunity. He has been based in Washington as a reporter covering the biotech and pharmaceutical industries since January 2020. He previously was at BioPharma Dive, an Industry Dive publication, where he had worked since July 2018. Dunn also interned at the Baltimore Sun, Tampa Bay Times and CNN covering a variety […]

Business Insider South Africa to close

Business Insider South Africa announced that it will close by the end of the month. A story on BizCommunity states, “‘Business Insider SA launched in February 2018 as a partnership between what was then known as Business Insider, a German-owned American-headquartered outlet that pioneered a new way of online publishing, and News24, part of the Media24 group,’ said […]

Former Business Insider cannabis reporter starts Cultivated newsletter

Former Business Insider cannabis reporter Jeremy Berke has started a newsletter called Cultivated to cover the industry. “While I believe my primary audience will serve those who work in the cannabis industry, I want it to be generally interesting for those that don’t, or just want to learn more about it,” wrote Berke on Cultivated. About 250 […]