Chief product officer Ore departs Insider

John Ore, the chief product officer at Insider, has left after seven years. Ore and his team are responsible for charting the strategic direction of the company’s properties and products across platforms and geographies worldwide. He has held a variety of senior product development positions in a career spanning over 20 years at companies such […]

Business Insider promotes Russell to senior tech correspondent

Business Insider has promoted Melia Russell to senior tech correspondent. Russell is based in New England and writes news and features about startups and venture capital, focused on growth-stage companies, the funding deals that investors are clamoring to get into, and corporate culture. Her work has uncovered the mysterious disappearance of a Utah tech entrepreneur, detailed the falling […]

Insider seeks a business features editor

Insider Inc. is hiring a Business Features Editor to lead a new team focused on memorable, impactful, and entertaining reporting that puts readers inside the world’s biggest and most interesting companies. This is a full-time position based in the United States with flexibility on work location. We have several offices in the U.S., including our headquarters in […]

The 19th hires Barclay and Panetta as politics reporters

The 19th has hired Mel Leonor Barclay and Grace Panetta as reporters on the politics team. Barclay covered Virginia politics for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Previously, she interned at the South Florida Sun Sentinel and Miami Herald. She worked at the Naples Daily News and Politico. Currently, she is writing a newsletter for States Newsroom about abortion […]

Insider names three executive editors

Jennifer Cunningham, editor in chief of news at Insider, sent out the following: Hi News Team! I’m thrilled to announce our new leadership team overseeing the News Division. John Cook, formerly the Investigations Editor, will be joining the News Team as an Executive Editor starting today. Rebecca Harrington and Kieran Corcoran have also been promoted […]

Business Insider finance correspondent Weinman departs

Aaron Weinman, a foreign correspondent covering the people, themes, and culture on Wall Street at Business Insider, has left. Weinman’s tweet reads: “Today’s my last day working in NY. I’m gutted to be leaving, but excited to see family in Aus. Yes, after more than a decade, I’m headed home!” Previously, he was at Thomson […]

Business Insider reporter Gehan departs

Ann Gehan, a junior retail reporter covering payments, retail technology, e-commerce and fintech, has left. Gehan’s tweet reads: “I’m so grateful to have worked with such talented and kind colleagues across the newsroom and will miss working with them a lot! A big thank you to the editors who hired me as a fellow and […]

Semafor hires Zeballos-Roig to cover economic policy

Semafor has hired Joseph Zeballos-Roig to cover economic policy and other issues on Capitol Hill with a focus on the Senate. He previously was a policy reporter covering taxes, inequality and federal spending at Business Insider. Zeballos-Roig joined Business Insider in 2019 as a policy reporting fellow. He worked freelance for The New Republic and […]

Business Insider tech reporter Hamilton leaves for The Daily Upside

Business Insider senior tech reporter Isobel Hamilton is leaving after four years to join The Daily Upside. She has been covering Big Tech, privacy, and worker’s rights. Hamilton joined Business Insider in June 2018 as a tech fellow in London. She previously was an intern at Mashable. Hamilton holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oxford.

Canales departs Business Insider for Morning Brew

Business Insider reporter Katie Canales is leaving the news organization to join Morning Brew, where she will write for its new cryptocurrency newsletter. Canales is a tech and crypto reporter based in Austin, Texas. She joined Insider in 2018 and focuses heavily on NFTs, blockchain technology, major crypto players, and the booming Web3 space. She has also […]