Ryan to cover financial markets and digital media for The Information

The Information has hired Aidan Ryan as a reporter covering financial markets and digital media in New York City. Previously, he served as a reporting intern. Ryan was also a political reporting intern at Boston Globe Media. Ryan is a graduate of Harvard University, where he reported for and was president of The Harvard Crimson, […]

Bloomberg Opinion hires Pollack from The Information

Wendy Pollack, a senior editor at The Information, has been hired by Bloomberg Opinion. She will start next month. She has been at The Information for the past four years. Before joining the tech news site, she spent five years as director of public affairs for the Regional Plan Association. She spent 13 years at […]

Bloomberg Opinion adds three new staffers

David Shipley, senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion, announced three journalists joining Bloomberg Opinion. The following items are from a memo he sent to Bloomberg Opinion staff on Tuesday: Paul J. Davies — Global Banking Columnist (London) Paul has been — or, for a few more days, is — the senior markets reporter at the […]

The Information hires LeVine for subscription newsletter The Electric

Steve LeVine has left Medium to start a new, stand-alone premium subscription pub at The Information called The Electric. It will focus on batteries and electronic vehicles. He had been at Medium for the last two years as an editor at large. At Medium, LeVine wrote across three magazines covering the intersection of technology, economics, and […]

Inside The Information’s paywall strategy

Simon Owens examines how tech news site The Information gets readers to subscribe in a conversation with CEO Jessica Lessin. Owens writes, “I asked Jessica what’s the leading conversion channel that entices someone into becoming a paid subscriber. Many publishers, for instance, have found that getting someone signed up for a newsletter will make them […]

The Information adding staff to handle more readers

The Information has hired 22 people in the last year, adding more beats, staffing up popular ones and adding more newsletters to drive subscriptions, reports Sara Guaglione of Digiday. Guaglione reports, “The business news publication’s goal is to reach ‘hundreds of thousands’ of subscribers from the ‘tens of thousands’ of subscribers that the company has today, which […]

The Information hires WSJ’s Patel as a media reporter

The Information has hired Sahil Patel as a media reporter. He has been at The Wall Street Journal for the past two years. He reports for CMO Today, with a focus on the ways that tech platforms, digital video and ad tech are changing the business of marketing. Patel was previously a media editor for Digiday. He […]

The Information hires Krouse to cover Google parent

The Information executive editor Amir Efrati sent out the following message to the staff: Team, We’re delighted to announce that Sarah Krouse will join us as a reporter covering Alphabet. It’s a huge story with implications for numerous industries and society while the company battles internal employee activism and external antitrust attacks. She starts April 19 in […]

The Information hires Yurieff to cover the creator economy

Laura Mandaro and Amir Efrati of The Information sent out the following on Friday to the staff: Team, We’re excited to announce that Kaya Yurieff will be joining us as a creator economy reporter, starting April 12 in New York. Kaya (pronounced like kayak) has been a technology reporter at CNN for the past four years, where she […]

Insider hires The Information’s Dotan to cover gig economy

The Information reporter Tom Dotan has been hired by Insider to cover the gig economy. He will report on Uber, DoorDash, Instacart and all the ways tech is changing the way we work. Dotan joined The Information in 2014. He spent the last two years covering tech for the Los Angeles Business Journal. While there […]