Dynamo hires former Business Insider executive editor Harrington
Former Business Insider executive editor Rebecca Harrington has been hired by Dynamo to be its chief of staff. Dynamo is the new media company started by former Business Insider editor in chief Nicholas Carlson. Harrington will manage the company’s day-to-day operations, such as human resources, legal, finance and vendor relationships. At Business Insider, which she left […]
Ex-Business Insider EIC Carlson starts Dynamo
Nicholas Carlson, the former editor in chief of Business Insider, has started a video company called Dynamo with the backing of people in business journalism, reports Benjamin Mullin of The New York Times. Mullin writes, “As he was leaving Business Insider, Mr. Carlson sounded out Henry Blodget, the former chief executive of the company, on his next […]
Business Insider reporter Bhattacharya departs
Shriya Bhattacharya, a reporter at Business Insider, has left the news organization for a new opportunity. She reported on the creator economy from a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens at Business Insider. She wrote about how the biggest social-media platforms like TikTok and Snapchat can be more inclusive, and regularly profiled BIPOC influencers and startup […]
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 […]
