Insider seeks an entertainment business reporter
Insider is looking for an entertainment business reporter to cover the continuing digital and cultural transformation of Hollywood, from the streaming wars and the new creator economy to emerging storytellers and reconfigured power structures. You’ll cover the forces disrupting how content creation, dealmaking and distribution are done in Hollywood — including technology shifts and the […]
Insider hires Schwartz as a senior correspondent
Insider has hired Mattathias Schwartz as a senior correspondent. He will start next week. Schwartz has been a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine. He has also contributed to The New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, the London Review of Books, Bloomberg Businessweek, and numerous other publications. His New Yorker story, “A Massacre in Jamaica,” on the […]
Insider seeks assistant editor for personal finance
Insider Inc. is hiring a full-time associate editor to work with freelance writers on our Personal Finance Insider team. Personal Finance Insider (PFI) produces service journalism about money. We help our readers choose the right bank accounts, save more for retirement, pay off their student loans, buy their first homes, and more. We value creativity, […]
How Insider measures the performance of its reporters
Kayleigh Barber of Digiday looks at how Insider is using metrics to measure the performance of its reporters. Barber reports, “At Insider, where each reporter must earn a specific amount of page views, unique visitors or subscriptions every month, that responsibility — and the system that enforces it — has gone from draining to confusing as […]
Insider has added 19 staffers to its roster
Insider global managing editor Jessica Liebman sent out the following email to the staff on Friday: Happy Friday, everyone! We’re growing our newsroom and expanding our teams nearly every week. While we do this, we’re making sure to bring on extremely talented journalists who can help us broaden our perspective and elevate our storytelling. Below, […]
From child actor to finance reporter
Grace O’Connell-Joshua of Insider spoke with finance reporter Reed Alexander, who was a child actor, about his career change. Here is an excerpt: Do you feel like your past career in acting prepared you for your career in reporting? If so, how? Most definitely. Acting is such a human endeavor — understanding people’s motivations and what makes […]
Insider hires Joe as advertising editor
Insider has hired Ryan Joe to be its advertising editor. Joe is currently managing editor at AdExchanger, where he helps edit and oversee the staff writers’ daily coverage. He often reports on issues surrounding data management as well as the confluence of media, creativity and technology. Prior to AdExchanger, he was senior editor at Direct Marketing News. […]
Insider hires Rood for investigative team
Insider has hired Justin Rood as a reporter on its investigative team. “I can’t wait to dig into the strange and dark corners of global business, culture and politics with this talented group of journalists,” he wrote on Twitter. Rood was previously director of the Congressional Oversight Initiative for the past six years. Its mission is to […]
Insider hires Persaud as startups/VC editor
Insider has hired Vishal Persaud as an editor overseeing startups and venture capital coverage. His first day is Monday. “I’m really thrilled to be working with all of the talented reporters and editors there,” he wrote on Twitter. Persaud has been editor of venture capital and technology at Pitchbook Data for the past year. From December 2015 […]
Journalists at Insider have unionized
Journalists at Insider, the news site formerly called Business Insider, said on Monday that they had formed a union, joining a wave that has swept digital media companies, reports Katie Robertson of The New York Times. Robertson reports, “The Insider Union is asking the company for voluntary recognition. It is represented by The NewsGuild of New York, […]
