Business Insider seeks finance reporter
Business Insider is looking for a fun finance geek to join the team. Business Insider’s Finance vertical covers financial professionals and everything they do. A basic understanding of what Wall Street’s banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, and other firms do is key, as is an understanding of global financial markets. The ideal candidate will […]
Tech Insider seeks innovation editor
Tech Insider — Business Insider’s sister site focused on tech, science, and innovation — is hiring an editor to join our innovation section. The editor will focus on stories about design, cities, activism, food, futurism, sustainability, and everything in between. Our style is smart, conversational, exciting, and geared toward a general audience. That means you’ll be […]
Business Insider executive editor Yarow leaves
Jay Yarow, the executive editor for Business Insider, resigned Wednesday afternoon to accept another job. His departure was announced in a short newsroom meeting. Yarow has been executive editor, overseeing the day-to-day operations, for nearly a year. Before that, he was deputy editor, running the technology vertical and overseeing 16 reporters. He was also a […]
Business Insider promotes editors, hires staff
Business Insider has made a number of promotions and hires in recent weeks, according to executive editor Jay Yarow. Myles Udland is taking over as global markets editor. Udland joined Business Insider in May 2014. “He’s proven himself to be an incredible talent,” said Yarow. “He’s fast, smart, and really understands what we do. We couldn’t […]
Can Business Insider work in Germany?
Shan Wang of Nieman Lab writes about how Business Insider is expanding into new markets such as Germany. Wang writes, “Business Insider Deutschland, which launched late last year on the heels of Axel Springer’s acquisition, started small. “The launch happened to take place on the November Monday after the terrorist attacks in Paris. The team […]
Business Insider seeks politics reporter
Are you a politics junkie who’s obsessed with the fascinating 2016 presidential campaign? Do you obsessively watch the Sunday-morning political talk shows? 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. The Politics Reporter is responsible for monitoring US political […]
Business Insider seeks startups reporter
Business Insider is looking for a reporter to cover the fast-paced world of startups and venture capital, writing about everything from company culture to the newest buzzy product everyone’s talking about. As a startups reporter you will: Develop strong sources within the startup and venture capital scenes, so that no matter the big news of the day, you can get […]
Yahoo Finance hires Sam Ro as ME
Yahoo Finance has hired Sam Ro from Business Insider to be its managing editor. In this new role, he will work with editor in chief Andy Serwer to oversee and direct the site’s editorial content. Most recently Ro was a deputy editor at Business Insider, where he led the site’s coverage of global markets. He […]
Assessing business news site traffic
Lewis Dvorkin, the chief product officer at Forbes, writes about web traffic for news sites, including business news sites. Dvorkin writes, “Check out The Wall Street Journal. Paywall and all, traffic is finally growing after hanging in the low 20 million unique visitor range for the first three quarters of 2015. It shot to 26.7 […]
Business Insider to launch in Scandanavia
Business Insider is planning to launch a website in the Nordic countries with the help from Bonnier Business Media-owned business magazine Veckans Affärer. An item on Smashdig by Adam Jönsson states, “According to the Bonnier Business Media announcement Tuesday, Veckans Affärer’s newsroom will run Business Insider Nordic. All web traffic from the Nordic countries will […]
