Business Insider hires deputy editor from Bloomberg

Business Insider has hired Mohammed Hadi from Bloomberg to be a deputy editor.

Hadi had been the deals team leader at Bloomberg for the past two years and had been at Bloomberg since April 2011. At Business Insider, he’ll be overseeing its finance, retail and transportation teams and report to executive editor Jay Yarow.

“We’re thrilled to add Mo and Matt to bolster our business coverage,” said executive editor Yarow in an email to Talking Biz News. “We’ve had tremendous success at Business Insider, and we’re just getting started. There’s a vast opportunity ahead. I am confident they’re going to help us get to the next level with our site.”

Before Bloomberg, Hadi was an Asia news editor and columnist for the Heard on the Street column at The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires. He previously worked at a boutique M&A research firm as a financial analyst and has degrees from the University of Richmond and Columbia University.

In addition, Business Insider has hired Matt Turner from Financial News to lead its finance team. Turner was editor of Financial News’ U.S. coverage, writing news and analysis on investment banking, sales and trading, market infrastructure, fund management and private equity for Financial News and The Wall Street Journal.

Turner, who had been at Financial News since March 2008, will report to Hadi. Both will start at  the end of July.