How Business Insider’s UK operation grew to 70 staff
Charlotte Tobitt of Press Gazette writes about Business Insider’s London operation, which has grown from seven staffers to 70 in a decade. Tobitt writes, “One of Business Insider UK’s first hires in 2014 was a tech editor, and Ghosh said the bureau has ‘always somewhat focused on startups and venture capital partly because… most of the […]
Business Insider reporter Licea departs for freelancing
Business Insider reporter Melkorka Licea has left the news organization to become a freelancer. She had been a senior wealth reporter and a features reporter. She had been covering the lifestyles of the rich and famous. Licea was previously at the New York Post, where she was a news reporter, enterprise reporter and features reporter. She was also a […]
Law professor: No case against Business Insider
Matt Stieb of New York Magazine’s Intelligencer interviewed Edward Klaris, an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School and former counsel at Condé Nast, about whether billionaire Bill Ackman and his wife have a case against Business Insider. Here is an excerpt: Ackman has lashed out on social media and threatened to “unleash hell” on Business Insider for what […]
Business Insider’s Campbell joining investigations team
Business Insider chief financial correspondent Dakin Campbell is joining the publication’s investigations team. Campbell joined Business Insider in April 2018 after working at Bloomberg News for nearly a decade. His work appeared on the terminal and in Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets. He focused his coverage on business strategy, product development, personnel changes, securities trading and investment banking. His coverage has focused on Goldman Sachs’s trading […]
Business Insider CEO note to staff on Oxman stories
Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng sent out the following on Sunday to the staff: We are a journalism organization with high standards and a commitment to truth and fairness. Regarding the recent reporting on Neri Oxman, we feel it’s important to share the following: There was no unfair bias or personal, political, and/or religious motivation […]
Internal review backs Business Insider story
Reports of plagiarism against the academic Neri Oxman, wife of billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, are “accurate and well documented,” reports Sam Jones of The Financial Times. Jones reports, “In a memorandum sent to Business Insider reporters on Sunday, a copy of which was seen by the Financial Times, chief executive Barbara Peng said an […]
Axel Springer spokesman: Facts in Business Insider’s story stand
Dylan Byers of Puck interviewed Axel Springer’s head of communications, Adib Sisani, about the complaints billionaire Bill Ackman has made over Business Insider’s coverage of his wife and problems with her dissertation. Byers writes, “In a phone call this week, Sisani told me that the company launched the review because Axel took Ackman’s accusations so seriously—chiefly, the […]
Business Insider EIC Carlson stands by Oxman stories
Business Insider global editor-in-chief Nicholas Carlson sent out the following to the staff on Sunday: Team, We published two stories about Neri Oxman this week. She is a well-known academic who know runs a startup. Those stories uncovered plagiarism in her academic papers. The first story revealed plagiarism similar to the kind found in Claudine Gay’s work. […]
Tracer moving to Business Insider’s investigations team
Zach Tracer, deputy editor for health care coverage at Business Insider, is moving to the news organization’s investigations team as its deputy editor. He joined Business Insider in 2018. Previously, he was a health care reporter at Bloomberg News. Tracer has written about how drug prices are set, the insurers who are profiting off Obamacare, […]
Haskins departing Business Insider to freelance
Business Insider research editor and senior tech reporter Caroline Haskins is leaving to freelance. She joined Business Insider in August 2021 to cover artificial intelligence and surveillance technology. She previously worked at BuzzFeed, where she broke news on Amazon’s Ring, Palantir, Clearview AI, and a host of other important companies and technologies. Haskins had been a staff […]
