The Information hits 225,000 active users
The Information, a tech news publication aimed at the Silicon Valley and founded by former Wall Street Journal reporter Jessica Lessin, is expanding its focus with a weekend lifestyle edition. “You can’t cover tech all day long without realizing it’s not just about the companies any more,” says Lessin, The Information’s chief executive. “It’s really […]
Markets Insider signs deal to boost revenue, increase load times
Hashtag Labs said Monday it signed a deal with Markets Insider, part of Insider, as an ad-tech services provider to increase its revenue and its load times, writes Tony Silber of Publishers Daily. Silber writes, ” In hiring Hashtag Labs, the upstart publisher sought a partner that could enable it to maximize ad revenue while maintaining rapid […]
Rest of World looks to differentiate itself in a crowded tech news field
Stephen Perlberg of Insider writes about Rest of World, the tech news site funded by Sophie Schmidt, the daughter of the former Google CEO. Perlberg writes, “Thrust into the uncertain early days of the pandemic — when global travel ground to a halt — Rest of World has had early growing pains, according to conversations with […]
Providence Business News seeks a web editor
Providence Business News, southern New England’s leading business publication, is looking for an enterprising web editor to help us cover one of the nation’s most diverse business communities. The web editor helps set the daily digital news agenda, reporting and editing stories from staff writers on topics ranging from finance to manufacturing and health care, […]
Why The Plug is covering Black and brown tech companies
Hanaa’ Tameez of Nieman Lab writes about The Plug, which covers Black and brown technology companies and is led by Sherrell Dorsey. Tameez wrties, “Dorsey launched The Plug in 2016 as a daily, curated newsletter that shared stories about Black startups. By 2018, just after Dorsey graduated from Columbia’s computational journalism program, she delved into […]
New website to launch to cover NY cannabis industry
Advance Media New York, which owns The Post-Standard and operates Syracuse.com, is launching New York Cannabis Insider, a subscription-based website to cover the state’s cannabis industry. The site is set to target “C-Suite influencers, industry group leaders, lobbyists, politicians and political influencers, legal and security experts, banking and medical experts, and business owners.” Revenues are […]
Canary Media: Mainstream media undercovers climate crisis
Eric Wesoff, the managing editor at Canary Media, writes about the importance of its mission in covering climate and energy news. Wesoff writes, “Meanwhile, we’re working on growing our newsroom by bringing on more journalists. We’re adding diversity to our team and coverage areas. We’re expanding to report on more industries, technologies, policy ideas, trends […]
Myers named editor in chief of personal finance site The Balance
Kristin Myers, a Yahoo Finance anchor who left earlier this month, has been named editor in chief of personal finance site The Balance. The Balance was founded in 2016 and has more than 19 million monthly visitors. “I am so excited to take this next step in my career and to continue having important conversations […]
How Quartz is using membership to fund journalism
Aisha Majid of The Press Gazette writes about how Quartz is using a membership model to fund its journalism. Majid writes, “While on the face of it Quartz’s membership programme might more closely resemble a subscription (the content is behind a paywall), Frick says that the publication’s relationship with readers is more than just transactional. “‘The […]
Digital media startup Puck hires business journalists
Puck, a new digital media company that plans to cover the intersection of America’s power centers: Hollywood, Silicon Valley, New York City and Washington, has hired at least four business journalists, reports Sara Fischer of Axios. They are: Dylan Byers, formerly a senior media reporter at NBC News for the past three years. He also worked […]
