MarketWatch.com hires Maidan as tech and investing reporter
MarketWatch.com executive editor Nathan Vardi sent out the following on Tuesday: All, I am thrilled to announce that Laila Maidan is joining MarketWatch as a Tech and Investing Reporter. Laila is an excellent journalist who comes to us from Business Insider, where she wrote market-moving stories on stocks, bonds, derivatives, currencies and crypto. In her coverage, Laila has […]
Business Insider’s Silman departing to freelance
Business Insider senior features reporter Anna Silman is leaving to freelance. She spent five years as a senior writer at The Cut at New York Magazine, where she was a generalist writing features, profiles, and essays on a wide variety of topics including culture, lifestyle, media, health, identity, and social behavior. She spent four months […]
Business Insider’s Russell to cover AI’s impact on professional services
Business Insider senior tech reporter Melia Russell is moving to a new beat to cover how artificial intelligence is transforming legal and professional services. She has been writing 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 […]
Business Insider seeks a life and entertainment editor
Business Insider is looking for an editor to join the Life and Entertainment Freelance team and help brainstorm, edit, and package stories from our growing network of writers. This person will report to Paige DiFiore and work with BI’s in-house Lifestyle and Entertainment Freelance team to pitch, assign, commission, and edit stories from our growing […]
Jankowicz moves to military and defense beat at Business Insider
Business Insider senior reporter Mia Jankowicz is moving to the military and defense beat for the publication. She has been a news reporter, with a major focus of her reporting is issues relating to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, where she has taken in-depth looks at the untimely death of Fox News fixer Sasha Kuvshynova as well as the grueling defense […]
How Heller is remaking Business Insider
Oliver Darcy writes in his Status newsletter about how Business Insider is changing under new editor in chief Jamie Heller. Darcy writes, “A little more than six months ago, in September, Business Insider’s newsroom received an email from Barbara Peng, the company’s newish chief executive, with a major announcement: Jamie Heller, the veteran Wall Street Journal editor, was taking over as editor […]
Business Insider names Sommers interim UK bureau chief
Business Insider has named Jack Sommers its interim UK bureau chief. He has been a deputy editor in the London bureau for the past year, overseeing the UK business news team, the Owned & Operated team, and a team producing first-person articles. Sommers has also been a senior editor overseeing freelancers and contributors. He previously worked at […]
Dow Jones hires Archer as VP of product and business strategy
Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal and MarketWatch.com, has hired Seth Archer as vice president of product and business strategy. He previously was at Business Insider as vice president of strategy and analytics, leading the newsroom strategy team. He also was the director of Markets Insider and a reporter covering markets. Archer […]
Business Insider hires Ming in Singapore
Business Insider has hired Lee Chong Ming as a reporter in its Singapore office. He will be covering artificial intelligence and technology. He was previously a journalist on the news desk at CNA, covering Singapore and international news. Ming studied English literature at the National University of Singapore.
Business Insider hires Connor as standards editor
Business Insider editor in chief Jamie Heller sent out the following on Monday: Hello! I’m thrilled to share that Tracy Connor has joined Business Insider as Standards Editor. In this critical role, Tracy will work with our journalists on questions during the reporting process, final-read sensitive pieces, help train people on standards, work with our legal team, […]
