What happened to Insider’s DC bureau?
Corbin Bolies of The Daily Beast reports about Insider’s grandiose plans, which resulted in uneven strategy and large departures, for its Washington bureau in the past few years. Bolies writes, “Almost three years later, nearly all of the original Washington, D.C. bureau team is gone. Samuelsohn was fired just days before the 2022 election and a […]
Business Insider hires Palazzolo to cover venture capital and startups
Stephanie Palazzolo, a venture capital and startups fellow, has joined the staff full time as a venture capital and startups junior reporter to cover artificial intelligence, consumer technology, and up-and-coming investors and entrepreneurs. Previously, Palazzolo worked as a technology investment banking analyst at Morgan Stanley and as a summer sales and trading analyst at J.P. […]
Why Insider’s Turner was attracted to the news organization
Matt Turner, the editor in chief of business news coverage at Insider, spoke with Russell Sherman of Press Profiles about his career. Turner said that the business news operation is about 200 staffers, or about one third of the Insider editorial staff. He joined what was then called Business Insider in 2015 after meeting with co-founder Henry […]
amNewYork names Lin a staff reporter
Sarah Belle Lin has joined amNewYork as a staff writer to cover a broad swath of beats. These include crime, government, human interest, business, real estate and education. Previously, she was a newsletter and retail reporting fellow at Business Insider. Lin was a contributing reporter at Bronx Times and interned at Patch.com. She also contributed […]
WSJ hires Dotan to cover Microsoft and business tech
The Wall Street Journal has hired Tom Dotan to cover Microsoft and business technology. Dotan has been a senior tech correspondent at Insider covering YouTube, Google and Alphabet. He previously covered the gig economy and also worked at The Information. Dotan also covered tech for the Los Angeles Business Journal. While there he broke stories about the […]
Kraft moves to Insider’s enterprise news desk
Stephanie Russell-Kraft is now an editor on Insider’s enterprise news desk. She previously had been Insider’s first legal editor, overseeing its coverage of the legal and professional services industries. She was a special correspondent for Bloomberg Law and an independent reporter covering the intersections of law, religion, gender, labor & workplace matters. She has written for The New […]
WSJ hires Barber to cover Justice Department
The Wall Street Journal has hired Ryan Barber to cover the Justice Department. Barber has been covering the Justice Department and courts on the federal law enforcement beat for Insider since March 2021. He previously covered the same beat for The National Law Journal. Barber previously covered Massachusetts politics for the Cape Cod Times, where he was named Newsroom […]
Politico hires Insider’s Schumaker for health care team
Clea Benson, managing editor of policy news at Politico, sent out the following to the staff: We are thrilled to announce that Erin Schumaker is joining POLITICO’s health care team to contribute to our expanding coverage of the future of health care as we chronicle how the pandemic has reshaped medicine. Erin will be returning […]
Price promoted to senior correspondent at Insider
Rob Price has been promoted to senior correspondent at Insider, based in San Francisco. He writes investigations and long-form features about the technology industry, focusing on large-cap tech companies, social media, UHNWIs, and privacy. Price’s work has exposed the abuse of millions’ of people’s data, uncovered allegations of assault and sexual harassment by Facebook CEO […]
Insider’s Lopez joins others suspended by Twitter owner Musk
Insider columnist Linette Lopez, who has spent years aggressively covering Elon Musk’s businesses, including documenting alleged safety lapses at Tesla, has been suspended by Musk’s Twitter, reports Noah Kirsch of The Daily Beast. Kirsch reports, “Lopez told The Daily Beast she received no explanation for her suspension, nor information about how long the ban will last. She […]
