The Information hires Business Insider reporter Jin
Tech news site The Information has hired Business Insider reporter Berber Jin. He will start on March 15 and cover intersection of finance and technology. He has been at Business Insider since October 2020 as a startups/venture capital fellow. Jin also previously interned at Bloomberg News. He is a graduate of Stanford University in history […]
The Information is launching five new newsletters
The Information is launching five new email newsletters beginning Monday, spanning topics around business, finance and tech, reports Sara Fischer of Axios. Fischer reports, “The first two new topic-specific newsletters, ‘Reality Check’ and ‘The Information China,” will focus on tech. Reality Check, authored by reporter Mathew Olson, will be sent four times per week. It debuts Monday with […]
VC reporter Bernard is departing The Information
Zoe Bernard, a reporter at The Information covering venture capital, is leaving the tech news organization. Bernard plans to freelance. She previously covered startups and tech culture at Business Insider before joining the Information in early 2019. She was based in the New York bureau. Bernard had been with Business Insider since October 2017, first as an […]
The Information reporter Matican is departing for marketing job
Ross Matican, a reporter at tech news site The Information, is leaving for a marketing job. Matican is joining Carta Inc. as its first-ever corporate affairs research analyst. He joined The Information in June 2020 covering tech and markets. Matican was previously a reporting intern for The Information in San Francisco. He recently graduated from Carleton College and […]
The Information hires Olson to help launch AR/VR newsletter
The Information CEO Jessica Lessin and senior editor Nick Wingfield sent out the following on Friday: Team, We’re excited to announce that Mathew Olson will be joining The Information’s team, starting Monday, to helm our soon-to-launch newsletter on augmented and virtual reality. Mat grew up in the tech-saturated Puget Sound and studied economics at Reed College. His journalism career […]
How The Information built a successful tech news operation
Sarah Scire of Nieman Lab interviewed Jessica Lessin, the co-founder and CEO of tech news site The Information. Here is an excerpt: SCIRE: If I can ask you to generalize on what you’ve seen as an advisor, why does a new news organization succeed? Why do some fail? LESSIN: I think every organization I’ve seen produce really […]
How The Information gets people to pay for a subscription
Recode’s Peter Kafka interviewed The Information CEO and founder Jessica Lessin about how she has gotten people to subscribe to the seven-year-old technology news site. The Information has in the “tens of thousands” of subscribers, who pay $399 a year, and has a staff of more than 40. It expects to add 10 to 20 […]
The Information hires Sisco to cover antitrust stories
Tech news site The Information has hired Josh Sisco to cover antitrust regulation. He will start Feb. 8. Sisco is a senior correspondent at The Capitol Forum leading non-merger antitrust coverage, focusing on government investigations and policy. He joined The Capitol Forum after five years at MLex, most recently as chief U.S. correspondent, where he covered litigation […]
The Information hires O’Regan to cover Facebook, social media
Tech news site The Information has hired Sylvia Varnham O’Regan to cover Facebook and social media companies. She will start in March. O’Regan currently covers development and finance for The Real Deal in New York. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, GQ, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times and other publications. […]
The Information seeks an AR/VR reporter
AR/VR technologies are having a major moment—and just getting started. And while mainstream tech coverage concentrates on major announcements in the sector, the pace of industry developments is rapid. Lots of big news is, largely, uncharted. The Information is looking for a reporter to launch a new AR/VR newsletter, defining coverage of these platforms for […]
