Business Insider ramps up global expansion
Business Insider, fresh off expanding with Polish and Nordic sites, plans a French version later this year and it’s been in talks with nearly a dozen other markets, including the Netherlands, writes Shan Wang of Nieman Lab. Wang writes, “On the editorial end, new international editions that launch have access to the feed of original Business Insider content. […]
Business Insider, “Marketplace” combine on series
Website Business Insider and the public radio show “Marketplace” are collaborating again, this time on a week-long series of stories about the history and implications of the push to maximize shareholder value. Called “The Price of Profits,” the series is extensively covering how capitalism has become too short-term/shareholder/quarterly profit focused, and what this means for […]
Business Insider launches Insider website
Business Insider has launched a new website called Insider that features lifestyle coverage, writes Lukas Alpert of The Wall Street Journal. Alpert writes, “Insider’s editor-in-chief, Nicholas Carlson, said a homepage still has plenty to offer. For starters, a website offers more editorial versatility, he says, allowing for different storytelling formats like written stories and photo […]
How Business Insider differs from WSJ and the FT
Isabell Hülsen of Der Spiegel interviewed Business Insider co-founder and editor in chief Henry Blodget about its operation. Here is an excerpt: SPIEGEL: The small tech blog you founded after your time on Wall Street has become a news site with 94 million unique visitors a month. What is your journalistic ambition? Blodget: Our mission […]
Business Insider seeks markets editor
Business Insider is looking for a finance editor to lead a new adventure in our growing Markets coverage. We are rolling out a new suite of market data functionality on Business Insider and are looking for an editor to run the day-to-day editorial and production of this new section. The role will entail writing a mix of news […]
Business Insider Nordic launches
Viktor Bodelius, the executive editor of Business Insider Nordic, writes about its launch on Wednesday. Bodelius writes, “Tech and startups will naturally be an important part of Business Insider Nordic. But we are also going to focus on finance, strategy, economics, travel and lifestyle. “The Business Insider Nordic team promises to provide you with all […]
Tech Insider promotes Shontell to executive editor
Business Insider co-founder and editor in chief Henry Blodget sent out the following announcement on Tuesday morning: Hello, everyone! We’re excited to announce that we’re promoting Alyson Shontell to Executive Editor of Tech Insider. Alyson will work closely with Editor-in-Chief Gus Lubin, Managing Editor Emily Cohn, and the Tech Insider team. Tech Insider has seen […]
Business Insider names new editorial management
Business Insider co-founder and editor in chief Henry Blodget sent out the following announcement on Tuesday morning: Hello, everyone! We are excited to announce our new leadership team for Business Insider US, along with many other well-deserved promotions. In an era in which most news organizations are laying off journalists and otherwise cutting back, we have grown […]
The pressure to produce copy at Business Insider
Huffington Post business reporter Shane Ferro writes on Medium about the pressure she experienced while working at Business Insider to produce copy. Ferro writes, “I never came close to hitting my goals, despite the fact that I became something of a hot take machine, churning out opinions day after day. Some of them took off and got […]
What does the turnover at Business Insider mean?
Tom Kludt of CNNMoney.com writes about the recent turnover at Business Insider, which has lost some of its top editors and reporters in the past two months. Kludt writes, “Blodget, a former stock analyst who agreed to a lifetime ban from the securities industry to settle allegations that he gave out fraudulent advice, tried to […]
