Dan Mitchell of SF Weekly writes that Business Insider is still a bad website even after firing its chief technology officer. Mitchell writes, “Most of Business Insider bears Blodget’s mark. It’s full of slideshows...
Business Insider has fired chief technology officer Pax Dickinson due to offensive tweets, reports Jeff Bercovici of Forbes.com. Bercovici writes, “There’s probably never a good time to get called out for using racial slurs...
Henry Blodget, the former Wall Street analyst who started Business Insider, discusses the web site’s founding and strategy on Riptide, an oral history of the collision between journalism and technology that began in the...
Jenna Goudreau has been hired by Business Insider as the editor overseeing its strategy and careers coverage. Goudreau started last week, said Jessica Liebman, Business Insider’s managing editor. Max Nisen, strategy reporter, and Vivian...
Michael Sebastian of Advertising Age writes about Business Insider’s “Future of Business” section sponsored by SAP and how the software company has tbe power to veto articles about competitors. Sebastian writes, “So far Business...
Darwin Singleton of Your15TV in Mobile, Ala., reports how Business Insider reporter Julie Zeveloff, who recently wrote an article naming the Alabama city as the third worst in the country, has accepted an invitation to visit....
The Business Insider website has a new design Wednesday morning. “It has been about three years since we made significant changes to the design,” said founder and editor in chief Henry Blodget in an...
Josh Barro, the 28-year-old Bloomberg View blogger and rising star of moderate conservatism, is joining Business Insider as politics editor, reports Dylan Byers of Politico. Byers writes, “‘I’ll be overseeing BI’s coverage of politics, and...
Ryan Chittum of Columbia Journalism Review disagrees with the philosophy behind Business Insider’s new “Future of Business” section. Chittum writes, “The problems start with the banner across the top of the page: “If ‘Within...
Felix Salmon of Reuters writes about how Business Insider can improve itself in the wake of an investment from Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos. Salmon writes, “The problem is that in the chase for revenue...
