Business Insider seeks an AI reporter in San Francisco
Business Insider is seeking a full-time tech reporter to cover artificial intelligence AI is reshaping everything, and BI is looking for an aggressive, creative reporter who can break news, land scoops, and write with authority about the people, businesses, and money driving the AI revolution. From the companies and startups building the technology, the investors […]
Business Insider CEO: Traffic healthy and steady since August
Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng sent out the following on Friday: The first two years of our new strategy were about setting the foundation — reestablishing our brand and simplifying our sites (remember how we had two websites at the beginning of 2024?!).Since then, we’ve refined our coverage (first business, tech, and innovation, and now Big Bets), […]
Bloomberg, Business Insider win duPont-Columbia Awards
Bloomberg News and Business Insider are among the winners of a duPont-Columbia Award Silver Baton. Bloomberg and DCTV won for “Can’t Look Away,” a carefully researched documentary that followed a team of lawyers battling Snapchat, Meta, and YouTube to spotlight the devastating impact social media platforms have on teenagers and their families. Business Insider won […]
Business Insider hires Anthony as weekend editor
Business Insider has hired Tristan Anthony as a weekend editor, based in London. He curates the Business Insider home page on Saturday and Sunday, ensuring coverage of weekend breaking news. Anthony previously worked at Yahoo as a senior editor for the homepage. He also spent a decade working as an editor at AOL. He is a graduate […]
Departures raise concerns at Business Insider
Recent departures of top executives at Business Insider are raising concerns about the health of the company, reports Oliver Darcy of Status. Darcy writes, “In the wake of Thursday’s news—and after watching Peng acknowledge that the company has been struggling on key fronts—some staffers began speculating that layoffs might once again be on the table. For now, […]
Two executives leaving Business Insider
Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng sent out the following on Thursday: Team, Today we’re announcing a few changes to our team. Our Chief Revenue Officer, Maggie Milnamow, is leaving Business Insider for a new position that she will share more about soon. Since joining four years ago, Maggie has had an outsized impact on Business Insider, and […]
Business Insider promotes de Graaf to executive editor
Mia de Graaf has been promoted to executive editor on the Life team at Business Insider. In the past year, she led the extraordinary young cancer coverage, which started in the Life team and, under her leadership, expanded to include the Econ team, Discourse and Video. In the executive editor role, de Graaf will continue to […]
Business Insider taps Tecotzky to cover JPMorgan, big banks
Alice Tecotzky has moved to the finance desk at Business Insider, where she’ll now be covering JPMorgan and other big banks. She spent the first year after her fellowship covering Wall Street, wealth, and politics. She did crucial work on our DOGE coverage, and already has been reporting on bank culture including JP Morgan’s […]
Cosgrove named BI’s editorial director of AI innovation
Emma Cosgrove has been named editorial director of artificial intelligence innovation at Business Insider. “We have to keep a wary eye on the threat that AI poses to the business of journalism,” she wrote on LinkedIn. “But we also have to run as fast as we can toward the opportunities. Most importantly, we have to keep […]
Business Insider execs hoping for a reset
Oliver Darcy of Status writes about how Business Insider executives gave the staff Thursday an overview of its performance and its plans for the coming year. Darcy reports, “The candor suggested Peng is hoping for a reset in 2026. And, by most accounts, she and her leadership team were quite forthcoming on Thursday, doing little to […]
