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, […]
Business Insider reporter Haasch departs for new opportunity
Business Insider entertainment reporter Palmer Haasch has left the news organization for a new opportunity. She has been at the news site for five years and has been covering television and film. Previously, she was working freelance. Before that, she as with Thrillist working as an entertainment writer. Haasch has also worked as an editorial intern at Polygon and […]
Weiss rejoins media desk at Business Insider
Business Insider senior reporter Geoff Weiss is rejoining the media desk. He will focus on companies such as YouTube and Netflix. Weiss has been covering the creator economy. Prior to joining Insider, Weiss served as the senior editor of Tubefilter, one of the first websites to exclusively cover the digital media industry. At Tubefilter, he helped shape […]
The Verge, Rest of World, Business Insider named magazine award finalists
The following business publications have been named finalists in The American Society of Magazine Editors’ 60th annual National Magazine Awards: The Verge in the general excellence, news, sports and entertainment category; Rest of World in the design category for “The Changing Face of Protest,” “2024 AI Elections Tracker” and “Digital Divinity”; Business Insider in the […]
