Business Insider founder Blodget is leaving company
Business Insider founder Henry Blodget sent out the following on Friday: Team, Seventeen years ago, in the early days of Business Insider, I learned about the “startup-founder life-cycle.” First you had to create a product people loved. Then you had to build a business to support it. Then you had to hire an amazing team. […]
Maxwell joins Gizmodo as a tech reporter
Thomas Maxwell has joined Gizmodo as a tech reporter. He previously was at Business Insider covering big technology. Maxwell also was a freelance journalist for the last four years. His work has appeared in PBS NewsHouse and Men’s Health, among others. He also was a technology reporter for Bustle Digital’s Input. Maxwell is a graduate of […]
Business Insider hires Ortega as director of newsroom operations
Business Insider editor in chief Jamie Heller sent out the following on Monday: I’m thrilled to announce that Kate Ortega is joining our newsroom as Director of Operations. Kate is a seasoned news pro who recently served as Assistant Managing Editor for newsroom operations for six years at The Wall Street Journal. In that role, […]
Business Insider launches AI-powered search
Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng sent out the following on Thursday to the staff: Team, This morning, we released a pioneering search tool on Business Insider, powered by our newsroom’s original journalism and generative AI. It’s the first of its kind for a news publication, and I couldn’t be more proud of our team’s work. Over […]
AP, KFF Health and NPR’s Thompson win Barlett & Steele Awards
The winners of the 18th Annual Barlett and Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism shine a spotlight on how the decisions of a powerful few impact the vulnerable many. A two-year nationwide investigation by the Associated Press took the top honor among global and national publications for its series showing the direct links between prison […]
Business Insider deputy editor Maynard is departing
Navah Maynard, a deputy editor for newsroom insights and analytics, is leaving Business Insider. Maynard led the newsroom analytics team, helping executives with data-led editorial and operational strategy, collaborating with data engineering and product teams, and supporting hundreds of reporters, editors, and producers with data-led and editorial insights to understand what readers care about. She […]
How Business Insider’s paywall strategy has helped increase subscriptions
Kayleigh Barber of Digiday writes about how Business Insider’s artificial-intelligence paywall strategy has increased subscriptions. Barber writes, “The new smart paywall instead determines the content that individual users are most likely to pay to access based on their previous reading habits, which platform they come to the website from and the propensity that each genre of […]
Bloomberg hires Cohn to oversee consumer coverage
Shelly Banjo, managing editor of global business at Bloomberg News, sent out the following on Thursday: Please join me in welcoming our new Team Leader for Consumer coverage in the Americas, Emily Cohn. Emily joins us from Business Insider, where she served as Deputy Editor in Chief, the newsroom’s #2 editor and head of BI’s […]
WSJ hires Business Insider’s Cook as deputy investigations editor
The Wall Street Journal has hired Business Insider executive editor John Cook as its deputy editor for investigations. He has been at Business Insider since 2019. Most recently, he was overseeing investigations, politics, features and defense coverage. Cook has been a reporter and an editor for more than 25 years, serving as executive editor of Gawker Media, […]
Business Insider deputy editor in chief Cohn departs
Emily Cohn, deputy editor in chief at Business Insider for the past four-plus years, is leaving the news organization. “My dream has always been to help shape the future of digital journalism, and BI has allowed me to do just that,” she wrote on LinkedIn. She had previously been the executive growth editor at Insider, […]
