Business Insider CEO wants readers coming to site twice a week
Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng sent out the following to the staff on Thursday: Team, During our last all hands call, we unveiled our new “North Star” metric — 2+ Days on Site per week. Historically, our guiding metric has been “visits.” We used this metric to tell us what our audience loves and wants more […]
TechCrunch hires Bort as VC/startups editor
TechCrunch has hired Julie Bort has an editor on its startups and venture capital team. Bort has been an editor at large for Business Insider’s technology team. She had been at the news organization for 12 years and had previously been chief technology correspondent and a senior editor for its venture capital and startups coverage. Bort previously […]
Morris named Singapore deputy bureau chief for Business Insider
Business Insider senior correspondent Meghan Morris has been named Singapore deputy bureau chief for the news organization. She will move next month. Morris has primarily been writing investigative stories about the tech industry. She has also served as a senior reporter on the tech features desk and the finance desk. She has also covered tech […]
Tarpley, senior editor at Business Insider, departs
Laura Grace Tarpley, a senior editor at Business Insider for personal finance coverage, has left the news organization for another opportunity. She oversaw coverage about mortgage rates, refinance rates, lenders, bank accounts, and borrowing and savings tips for Personal Finance Insider. She was a writer and editor for Business Insider’s “The Road to Home” series, […]
Bridge Michigan hires Allen as deputy editor
Leslie J. Allen has been hired by Bridge Michigan as a deputy editor. Allen has spent decades in business journalism, including more than 15 years at Automotive News, where she led the mobility team, which covers emerging automotive technology, including electrified and autonomous transportation, and was editor-in-chief of its Shift magazine. She was part of […]
Rest of World, HBR, Business Insider among magazine award finalists
The American Society of Magazine Editors announced Thursday the finalists for the 59th annual National Magazine Awards. The business publications that are finalists are: Rest of World for general excellence in the literature, science and politics category. In the design category, Harvard Business Review for July–August print issue; “Create Stories That Change Your Company’s Culture,” […]
NY Times hires Business Insider’s Schwartz
Business Insider staffer Mattathias Schwartz will be joining The New York Times as legal correspondent, covering the federal judiciary. Schwartz has been a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, where he has written more than a dozen feature stories since 2006, including sit-down profiles of John Brennan, Mike Pompeo and Bill Barr. At Business Insider, he […]
Bort departs Business Insider for new opportunity
Julie Bort, an editor at large for Business Insider’s technology team, has left for a new opportunity. She had been at the news organization for 12 years and had previously been chief technology correspondent and a senior editor for its venture capital and startups coverage. Bort previously worked at Network World for 13 years. She […]
Bloomberg hires Ghosh as editor on tech team
Bloomberg News has hired Shona Ghosh to be a senior editor in London on its Europe, Middle East and Africa tech team. She previously was deputy executive editor at Business Insider’s UK bureau. In 2019, she was awarded Tech Journalist of the Year at the UK Tech Awards. She was previously technology editor at UK advertising trade […]
Naftulin becomes editor on Business Insider’s special projects team
Julia Naftulin is becoming an editor on Business Insider’s special projects team. Previously, she held a five-year tenure as Business Insider’s sex and relationships reporter, covering topics like sexuality, psychology, and the intersection of relationships and entertainment. She was also its resident relationship advice columnist, penning the bi-weekly column “Doing It Right.” Naftulin launched and […]
