Categories: OLD Media Moves

LinkedIn starts business news section

LinkedIn on Wednesday launched a section on its network dedicated to business news, seeking to draw users onto the service more frequently to read and talk about current events.

David Ingram of Reuters writes, “LinkedIn is calling the section ‘Trending Storylines.’ It will have a stream of links to outside news sources mixed with related posts written by LinkedIn users.

“A team of editors will choose which stories to highlight, LinkedIn’s editor in chief, Daniel Roth, said in an interview. The company will not have reporters of its own.

“‘We think that people will start their day with this, to get the news they need,’ Roth said.

“On Tuesday, an early version seen by Reuters led with stories about U.S. and British authorities banning electronic devices larger than a cellphone from airline carry-on luggage. Alongside that news was commentary about the change by LinkedIn users, including Ian Bremmer, president of consultancy Eurasia Group.”

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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.