Plotting The Information’s expansion plans

Steven Perlberg of Business Insider examines tech news site The Information’s growth under founder Jessica Lessin. Perlberg writes, “Lately, The Information has sought to broaden its scope with the weekend lifestyle section and newsletters covering the creator economy and cryptocurrency. It created a subscription publication, The Electric, covering batteries, electric vehicles, and autonomous driving. The Information also launched a […]

The Information hires Pardes to lead coverage of Silicon Valley people

The Information has hired Arielle Pardes who will be leading coverage of Silicon Valley people and culture as a reporter. Pardes previously covered startups and Silicon Valley for Wired,  where she wrote two cover stories and nearly a dozen long-form features for the magazine. Her work shaped conversations about tech’s great migration to Miami, the emerging […]

The Information hires Becker as finance editor

The Information founder Jessica Lessin sent out the following on Thursday: I am thrilled to announce that Nate Becker will be joining us later this month as Finance Editor to expand The Information’s coverage of financial services. He’s joining us from WSJ where he helped lead the paper’s renowned team covering deals and Wall Street. He also […]

Morris leaveing The Information for Business of Fashion

Malique Morris will join The Business of Fashion to cover direct-to-consumer brands. Recently, Morris was a retail and e-commerce reporter at The Information. He interned at Crain’s Detroit Business, where he covered the retail, restaurant and hospitality industries. Morris has a B.A. from Brooklyn College and a M.A. from Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism […]

The Information seeks a reporter to cover AR and VR

The Information is looking for a reporter to write about the fast-developing world of augmented reality and virtual reality. This reporter would lead our Reality Check newsletter and contribute journalism to all areas of The Information. As Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Snap and soon Apple have demonstrated—releasing headsets and AR glasses—this industry is one of intense […]

The Information hires Victor to cover Alphabet

Tech news site The Information has hired Jon Victor to cover Alphabet, the parent company of Google. He will be based in San Francisco and start in October. Victor currently covers fintech, banking and payments, including public companies like Lightspeed and Nuvei, for The Logic. His beat encompasses how Canada’s financial institutions are innovating, the emergence of […]

The Information’s Peterson moves to Musk beat

Becky Peterson, a reporter covering technology, finance and cryptocurrencies for The Information, will now report on Tesla, SpaceX and all things Elon Musk. Previously, she was at Insider, where she served as a tech reporter and tech deals reporter. There, she also worked on the investigations team. She was an associate editor at Folio. Peterson […]

Peers returning to The Information after one month at Bloomberg Opinion

Martin Peers, who joined Bloomberg Opinion to be a technology columnist one month ago, is returning to tech news site The Information to run its New York operations. Peers was previously managing editor of The Information and New York bureau chief.  Before joining The Information in October 2014, Peers was media and marketing bureau chief at the Wall Street Journal, overseeing […]

Dow Jones chief subscriptions officer leaving for The Information

Karl Wells, the chief subscriptions officer at Dow Jones & Co., is leaving to becoming chief commercial officer at tech news site The Information. The Information founder Jessica Lessin writes, “Karl knows a thing or two about subscription businesses. As chief subscriptions officer of Dow Jones, Karl built and scaled the consumer subscription businesses of The Wall Street […]

The Information seeks a Netflix and media reporter

The Information was founded in late 2013 with a simple idea: write deeply reported articles about the technology industry that you won’t find elsewhere. Since then, we’ve become a disruptor in business news that’s moved markets, gotten the early scoop on billions of dollars of acquisitions, and told you what’s happening inside companies like Apple, […]