Business Insider hires Onanuga as weekend news editor in London
Business Insider has hired Tola Onanuga as a weekend news editor based in London. She will start at the end of the month. Onanuga was previously the deputy chief sub-editor at Wired in London. For the past two and a half years, she has been freelancing, writing about technology, culture and politics for numerous publications, including Wired, […]
Business Insider deputy executive editor Oran talks journalism
Deputy executive editor Olivia Oran helps lead Business Insider’s consumer subscriptions offering from within the newsroom while overseeing several teams of reporters and editors who cover topics including finance, markets, investing, health care and legal. She also works with her colleagues in data, marketing, and partnerships to collaboratively strategize on the best ways to grow […]
Lashinsky departing Fortune, will write for Insider/Business Insider
Fortune magazine executive editor Adam Lashinsky is leaving the publication and will write for Insider and Business Insider. Lashinsky will write a regular column and several features a year. He had been Fortune’s executive editor since 2017. Lashinsky joined Fortune in 2001 and has written numerous cover stories on the most important companies and people in Silicon Valley […]
Business Insider seeks pharma/biotech reporter
Business Insider is looking for an experienced reporter to cover the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. The coronavirus pandemic has shined a spotlight on the importance of these industries like never before, creating lots of opportunities for an ambitious reporter to make a mark in this role. Breaking news on the race to develop coronavirus vaccine […]
Business Insider/Insider hires Andrade as ME for diversity, inclusion
Business Insider and Insider have hired Fritzie Andrade as managing editor for diversity, equity and inclusion. Andrade has been at New York Magazine as director of video, leading the strategic direction of the company’s video programming. Andrade developed the company’s brands, including Vulture, the Cut, Daily Intelligencer, Select All, and Grub Street. Andrade previously worked at Gizmodo Media Group, […]
CNBC hires Reinicke for personal finance team
CNBC has hired Business Insider reporter Carmen Reinicke for its personal finance team. She had bene covering the U.S. economy and markets at Business Insider based in New York. Carmen previously covered emerging markets and consumer companies at Bloomberg and personal finance at CNBC. She’s an alumna of Vassar College and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of […]
Business Insider seeks energy reporter/editor
Business Insider is looking for an experienced reporter to oversee and expand our coverage of the energy industry, ranging from oil to renewables. This role will initially be focused on reporting, with an opportunity to add more management and editing responsibilities over time. The energy industry is going through an epic transformation, accelerated by the […]
Business Insider parent opens news hub in Singapore
Insider Inc., the Business Insider publisher, announced this week the launch of a news bureau in Singapore, with four reporters and a salesperson, reports Lucinda Southern of Digiday. Southern reports, “The global hub will publish English-language content. Outside of New York, the publisher opened its London bureau in 2014, where it now has over 100 staffers. “Insider has […]
How Business Insider boosted its events revenue
Max Willens of Digiday writes about how Business Insider dramatically increased its events revenue this year. Willens writes, “While sponsorships for its virtual events cost less than sponsoring its physical versions — though the company would not say by how much — Business Insider has generated eight times more events revenue in 2020 than it did […]
Business Insider is creating a tech features team
Business Insider editor in chief Alyson Shontell sent out the following on Friday: Team, I come to you with some exciting news ahead of the weekend. Alexei Oreskovic, our West Coast bureau chief, is stepping into a big new job where he’ll be running a brand-new initiative for our newsroom. If you’ve ever had the pleasure of […]
