Business Insider to launch Facebook Messenger bot

Business Insider is launching a Facebook Messenger bot to deliver top stories via Messenger chat.

Julie Hansen of Business Insider writes, “Our readers will be able to sign-up to receive chat messages alerting them to the most important news, in real-time. The bot, ‘Business Insider Update,’ will be available soon.

“We are excited about this new offering because we know that messaging apps are exploding in popularity. In fact, according to Business Insider Intelligence, our subscription research service, messaging apps are quickly overtaking social platforms in daily active users.

“‘This new functionality is an ideal way for us to immediately and directly reach our users where they are,’ said John Ore, SVP, Product at Business Insider. ‘And this is just the beginning – we’re excited to explore messaging as a powerful new way of engaging with our readers.'”

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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.