Business news publishers see traffic spike from LinkedIn
Business news companies are seeing a traffic spike from LinkedIn, writes Max Willens of Digiday. Willens writes, “Forbes — which has over 4 million followers on LinkedIn and is adding about 150,000 new followers per month — recently had a record month in April on the platform, with over 1 million clicks on its stories, according to Lewis […]
Business Insider hires advertising editor, senior tech editor
Business Insider editor in chief Alyson Shontell sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: Good morning! Our mission at Business Insider is to get better for readers every day. With this in mind, we’re thrilled to announce a couple of exciting new hires. Mike Shields is joining us from the Wall Street Journal as Advertising Editor. Mike was previously Digital […]
Business Insider’s O’Reilly to join WSJ to cover media and marketing
Business Insider senior editor Lara O’Reilly has been hired by The Wall Street Journal to cover media and marketing. She starts next week. O’Reilly will also write the CMO Today newsletter. O’Reilly has been Business Insider’s advertising editor and senior editor overseeing global advertising coverage out of its London office since September 2014. Before that, […]
Business Insider’s Darcy hired by CNN to cover media
Business Insider politics editor Oliver Darcy has been hired by CNN to cover media. Darcy has been at Business Insider since June 2016. Alex Koppelman, senior media editor at CNN, sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: Hi everyone, You may have already seen the news that is quite rightly getting a lot of attention […]
Business Insider launches live-streamed show “The Bottom Line”
Business Insider is making the leap into market-driven business news TV with “The Bottom Line,” which founder Henry Blodget will host and will stream on the business news website’s social media platforms. Sami Main of Adweek writes, “The Bottom Line is sponsored by Fidelity and debuts today at 2 p.m. ET. The 15- to 20-minute business […]
Business Insider seeks personal finance reporter
Business Insider is hiring a full-time reporter for its Your Money vertical, one of the fastest-growing sections of the world’s No. 1 digital business publication. Candidates should be comfortable writing quick, aggregated stories that highlight the most interesting angles of the day’s news, while simultaneously working on reported medium-length and long-form features. Ideal candidates will have: Insatiable curiosity A […]
Business Insider seeks a personal finance editor
Business Insider is hiring a full-time personal finance editor for its Your Money vertical, one of the fastest-growing sections of the world’s No. 1 digital business publication. This editor should be well-versed in personal finance and financial products, including 401(k)s, HSAs, 529s, credit cards, and mutual funds, and should be able to distill that knowledge effectively to help our […]
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 […]
Business Insider’s Crowe leaving for Financial News
Portia Crowe, a senior reporter on Business Insider’s finance team, is leaving the website for a job at Financial News, a Dow Jones publication based in London. At Business Insider, Crowe has been primarily covering investment banks, deals, and young Wall Street. Her last day is Friday. At Financial News, she will be an investment […]
Business Insider hires Bloomberg’s Ciolli
Joseph Ciolli, a markets reporter for Bloomberg News, has been hired by Business Insider to be a senior markets reporter. Matt Turner, deputy executive editor of Business Insider, sent out an email on Monday. He wrote: Joe Ciolli is joining the markets team from Bloomberg as a senior reporter. You may have seen him on […]
