Business Insider hires Baram as deputy editor

Marcus Baram, formerly managing editor of the International Business Times,  has been hired as deputy editor of Business Insider.

Other deputy editors at Business Insider include Sam Ro, Jay Yarow and Julie Zeveloff.

Baram said the following in an email to Talking Biz News:

I have long been impressed with BI’s smart news instincts, great mix of stories and boundless energy.

So, I am excited to join the newsroom where my role will be to help supervise news coverage and expand original reporting.

He was ME at the International Business Times for two years until November 2014, supervising a newsroom of 60 reporters and editors, overseeing news coverage across its verticals.

Baram was a senior editor for four years at the Huffington Post, where he helped build the site into a news behemoth by running the front page, editing original stories, reporting exclusive stories and boosting traffic. Previously, he was a producer at ABC News, an associate news editor at the Wall Street Journal, news editor at the New York Observer and a reporter at the New York Daily News.

His specialties are investigative reporting, managing a team of reporters, building Web traffic and effectively promoting stories through social media.

His feature writing and investigative reporting has also been published in the New Yorker, the New York Times, New York magazine, Vibe magazine, the Village Voice and the New York Post.

His biography of Gil Scott-Heron, which involved over 150 interviews and a year of reporting, was published by St. Martin’s Press.