Business Insider’s Carson to join Forbes to cover tech
Biz Carson, a tech reporter at Business Insider covering startups and venture capital, has been hired by Forbes magazine. It’s been an amazing journey at Business Insider and I’m forever grateful and proud that I got to work with the entire team at SAI. — Biz Carson (@bizcarson) July 21, 2017 She starts at Forbes […]
Blodget talks Business Insider as it turns 10
Shan Wang of Nieman Lab interviewed Business Insider founder and editor in chief Henry Blodget about the website as it celebrates its 10th anniversary. Here is an excerpt: Wang: Editorially, are there new topics Business Insider is trying to build more coverage around, in this particular political moment? Blodget: There’s a ton we’re not currently […]
Business Insider making hires to expand Markets Insider
Matt Turner, deputy executive editor at Business Insider, sent out the following announcement to the staff: All, I have some exciting news: Joe Ciolli is joining the markets team from Bloomberg as a senior reporter. You may have seen him on TV warring BI alum Joe Weisenthal with a chart, or have seen some of […]
Business Insider hires Your Money editor
Lauren Lyons Cole has been hired as the Your Money editor at Business Insider. Lyons Cole was previously the personal finance editor at the International Business Times. Before joining International Business Times, Lyons Cole was a personal finance contributor for TheStreet.com. Her financial planning career began at a Manhattan-based wealth management firm, which she later left […]
Business Insider up to 20 million monthly visitors in Europe
Business Insider now has 20 million monthly unique visitors across its European websites and plans to launch another one in Spain later this year, the company disclosed Tuesday. Business Insider has seven localized European editions — United Kingdom, Netherlands, France, Germany, Nordics, Poland, and Italy. Over the last two years, Business Insider has expanded across Europe beginning in 2014 with the launch of a […]
Business Insider UK now has staff of 50, 7M page views per month
Lancaster University’s alumni magazine Steps profiled alumnus Jim Edwards, who is editor of Business Insider UK. The magazine wrote, “After graduation he had jobs driving a fork lift truck in a cardboard box factory and at the Sugar House before following his then girlfriend to the USA, where he started as Assistant City Editor for the Herald & […]
Business Insider hires Chaparro as finance reporter
Frank Chaparro has been hired by Business Insider as a finance reporter, covering financial technology, exchanges, and young Wall Street culture. He starts June 5. He has been a finance and markets editorial intern since January 2017. Previously, Chaparro anchored and reported for WFUV Public Radio, an NPR affiliate in the Bronx, and worked at Nasdaq and the New-York […]
What’s behind the growth of Business Insider’s research group
Max Willens of Digiday writes about Business Insider’s research group, which now has 40 staffers and 7,500 subscribers. Willens writes, “Over three years later, BI has grown its research group to 40 people, with 7,500 subscribers for $2,500 memberships, and it’s adding its own proprietary research panel, BI Insiders, a 15,000-person research panel, to the mix. “BI will […]
Business Insider seeks political reporter in NY or DC
Are you a politics junkie who’s obsessed with the the ins and outs of the new administration and Congress? Do you constantly refresh Twitter and know what a Donald Trump tweetstorm looks like? If so, you may be the perfect Politics Reporter for Business Insider. We’re hiring! The Politics Reporter is responsible for monitoring US political […]
Business Insider seeks enterprise tech reporter
Business Insider’s tech team is looking for a full-time reporter to help cover enterprise and business computing — including software, hardware, and cloud services. Here’s what we need: A proven ability to write about business computing — and the companies and people behind it — in plain English without being dull. Experience covering Oracle, HP, SAP, Salesforce, IBM, Dell, Cisco, or other large-cap […]
