Rem Rieder of USA Today writes Thursday about Business Insider and the website’s move to have longer stories. Rieder writes, “To be sure, Business Insider would not remind you much of The Wall Street...
Business Insider is looking for someone with a passion for personal finance to join its team as a full-time writer based in its Manhattan office. The ideal candidate should follow the day’s personal finance...
Aaron Gell, former interim editor at The New York Observer and editorial director at The Upswing, has been hired at Business Insider to lead an effort to bring magazine-style features to the site, reports...
Joe Pompeo of Capital New York reports that Business Insider’s Henry Blodget held merger talks with Gawker’s Nick Denton. Pompeo writes, “It wouldn’t be too far-fetched: Blodget and Denton are mutual admirers who’ve struck...
Mandi Woodruff, who has covered personal finance news and edited Business Insider’s ‘Your Money’ section for the past two years, is now writing personal finance for Yahoo Finance. In an email to the staff...
Joe Pompeo of Capital New York reports Monday that Business Insider plans to invest in more long-form stories. Pompeo writes, “Business Insider plans to invest ‘hundreds of thousands of dollars’ revving up its long-form...
Dan Mitchell of SF Weekly writes that Business Insider is still a bad website even after firing its chief technology officer. Mitchell writes, “Most of Business Insider bears Blodget’s mark. It’s full of slideshows...
Business Insider has fired chief technology officer Pax Dickinson due to offensive tweets, reports Jeff Bercovici of Forbes.com. Bercovici writes, “There’s probably never a good time to get called out for using racial slurs...
Henry Blodget, the former Wall Street analyst who started Business Insider, discusses the web site’s founding and strategy on Riptide, an oral history of the collision between journalism and technology that began in the...
Jenna Goudreau has been hired by Business Insider as the editor overseeing its strategy and careers coverage. Goudreau started last week, said Jessica Liebman, Business Insider’s managing editor. Max Nisen, strategy reporter, and Vivian...
