Washington Post CIO Prakash talks maintaining innovation and running of departments
The Washington Post chief information officer Shailesh Prakash talked with Business Insider’s Joe Williams about the Post’s investment in engineering and building a 300-person staff that helps drive innovation and experimentation across departments. With the upcoming election, Prakash shares how his team is supporting the newsroom and keeping the Post updated and running for its […]
Kaplan becomes wealth reporter at Business Insider
Juliana Kaplan is now covering the wealth beat for Business Insider, focusing on wealth, inequality, and the many different ways money impacts the world around us. She previously was an associate editor for contributors on the strategy team. She coordinated freelancers, contributed pieces, and books coverage. Previously, she was the editorial fellow for contributors. Before working […]
Business Insider hires Livingston to cover health insurance
Business Insider has hired reporter Shelby Livingston to cover health insurance and care delivery. She started on Monday. Livingston has been at Modern Healthcare covering health insurance. Before joining Modern Healthcare in 2016, she covered employee benefits at Business Insurance magazine. She also worked as a freelance writer covering fashion, culture and food stories for Michigan Avenue […]
Business Insider seeks a finance features editor
Business Insider is looking for a superstar editor to build a finance features team that will write high impact, agenda-setting stories about the most powerful firms and people on Wall Street. The finance features editor should have impeccable news judgement and a keen sense of how to get ahead of the curve on the personalities, power struggles, and key […]
Blodget: Morning Brew will remain standalone business
Insider Inc. co-founder and CEO Henry Blodget sent out the following to the staff on Thursday: Hello, everyone!Some exciting (but not surprising) news: As the Wall Street Journal, Vox, Axios, and other fine publications have reported — and as I discussed on our call last week — Insider Inc. is acquiring a majority stake in Morning Brew, the publisher of […]
Business Insider parent buys majority stake in Morning Brew
Insider Inc., the parent company to Business Insider, closed an all-cash deal Thursday to buy a majority stake in Morning Brew, a media startup that focused on business newsletters and podcasts, reports Sara Fischer of Axios. Fischer reports, “The deal values Morning Brew at around $75 million, sources tell Axios. The Morning Brew co-founders will retain a […]
Business Insider hires tech reporter Drange
Matt Drange is joining Business Insider as a senior correspondent on the newly created tech features team, headed by Alexei Oreskovic. Drange has reported on money and power in Silicon Valley since 2012. Last year he won SABEW’s Larry Birger Award as the best young business journalist in the country. Drange previously worked for Protocol, the new […]
Business Insider hires Atkinson as chief media correspondent
Business Insider has hired Claire Atkinson as its senior media correspondent. She will start in November. She has been at NBC News for the past three years as senior media editor. Atkinson previously was at The New York Post, where she covered the main media conglomerates, the music business, sports technology and advertising. She has […]
Business Insider adds two to investigative team
Business Insider has added a reporter and an editor to its investigations team Rachel Premack has joined the team after working as a senior transportation reporter for Business Insider. She previously was a journalist in Seoul, South Korea. Her articles were published in The Washington Post, Forbes, Foreign Policy, The Ringer, Quartz, CityLab, Business of […]
Business Insider hires Cheng to cover VCs, tech startups
Business Insider has hired Candy Cheng as a senior correspondent covering venture capital and tech startups. She will start Nov. 30. She previously was an executive producer of Bloomberg Studio 1.0, Bloomberg Television’s long-form interview series. At Bloomberg Television, she was also the head of technology interviews, regularly booking top tech executives, investors, entrepreneurs, and other […]
