Categories: OLD Media Moves

Business Insider launching Tech Insider

Lukas Alpert of The Wall Street Journal writes Monday about Tech Insider, the new tech news site from Business Insider, and its upcoming general news site called The Insider.

Alpert writes, “The immediate challenge for Tech Insider is that it will be joining a crowded tech media space that has already shown signs of consolidation. In March, the tech blog Gigaom shut down after being unable to pay back its creditors. Two months later, Vox Media acquired the 18-month-old tech news site Re/code. That same month, Verizon Communications Inc. agreed to buy AOL Inc., parent of tech sites TechCrunch and Engadget.

“Mr. Blodget said Tech Insider will attempt to distinguish itself by focusing on innovation, science and space rather than purely on the tech industry. ‘This won’t be a gadget blog,’ he said. Coverage of tech companies will continue to be done under the auspices of Business Insider.

“The launch date for the general news site – which is preliminarily being called The Insider – has yet to be determined, Mr. Blodget said. The new site will focus on news, food and entertainment, but will also be entering a crowded market where sites like BuzzFeed, DailyMail.com and Mashable have strong presences, as well as traditional news organizations like the New York Times and Washington Post.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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