Business Insider names Kovacs as audience editor
Kasia Kovacs has been named audience editor at Business Insider. She is based in London. Kovacs has been a people and cultural operations specialist at Business Insider since November 2024. She was acting editor in chief at Upday and also worked as a reporter for the Island Packet in South Carolina. She holds a bachelor’s degree […]
Business Insider hires Roof as editor at large
Business Insider editor in chief Jamie Heller sent out the following: We’re thrilled to share that Katie Roof is joining Business Insider to cover venture and tech finance, deepening our coverage of the founders, investors, and deals shaping the future of technology. Katie is one of the scoopiest reporters in tech, regularly breaking news on moves and […]
Business Insider reporter Hart departs
Jordan Hart, a reporter at Business Insider for the past four years, has left the news organization. Hart plans to freelance. She’s passionate about stories relating to retail, Gen Z professionals, and the latest trends in and out of the office. While in college, Hart interned at the Houston Business Journal. She graduated from the […]
Assessing the future of Business Insider
Oliver Darcy of Status reports on the meeting earlier this week between Business Insider staff and interim chief Christian Baesler. Darcy writes, “Joined by Axel Springer chief operating officer Claudius Senst, Baesler praised the ‘passion” and ‘great ideas’ inside the organization. He acknowledged that ‘the traffic based business,’ on which Business Insider was built, ‘is challenged across […]
Business Insider seeks an enterprise correspondent
Business Insider is seeking an accomplished correspondent to join our award-winning enterprise team and produce impactful stories that readers can’t find anywhere else. Business Insider has long prioritized in-depth, revelatory journalism. You will collaborate closely with editors and reporters across our global newsroom to develop and execute some of Business Insider’s most ambitious journalism, diving […]
A day in the life of the Business Insider newsroom
Meredith Klein of Meredith and the Media writes about how the Business Insider operates on a typical day. Klein writes, “Since stepping into the top role, Jamie Heller has rebuilt BI around three principles: One newsroom (no silos) Distinctive reporting (less aggregation, more original work) High standards (accuracy, fairness, rigor) “And a tighter editorial focus: Innovators […]
The Information hires Campbell to cover money behind AI
The Information has hired Dakin Campbell to cover the money behind artificial intelligence. He is interested in how banks, funds, and pensions are funneling capital into the chips and projects powering AI and who ends up holding the risk when deals go wrong. He was Business Insider’s chief finance correspondent, writing features and conducting investigations into Wall […]
The Information hires Kay to cover Musk’s businesses
The Information has hired Grace Kay to cover Elon Musk’s businesses. She was a correspondent on Business Insider’s enterprise desk, where she covered the inner workings of Tesla, Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, and the broader robotics and electric vehicle industries. Her stories have been cited by multiple publications, including Reuters, Bloomberg, and CNBC. Before […]
Business Insider’s business model is no longer working
Brian Morrissey writes in his The Rebooting website about why Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng is departing. Morrissey writes, “One Business Insider executive at the Media Product Forum was scrambling to make sense of the news their CEO was leaving. They were busy backchanneling to know more about the new interim CEO, digital media veteran Christian Baesler. The […]
Business Insider CEO Peng is departing
Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng sent out the following to the staff on Wednesday: Team, Today I am announcing that I will be leaving Business Insider. This was not an easy decision for me. I love Business Insider. I love being here with you every day, figuring things out, building, and forging the future together. But more […]
