Reuters adds new sections to its website
Reuters has introduced a series of new editorial sections to its update, including the global economic recovery, the future of health, next-gen technology and more. Editors of each section will curate news and specialist insights, offering both depth and breadth on the issues that shape the future of our personal and professional lives. The new […]
PYMNTS seeks a senior business reporter
Respected digital news publication seeks senior business reporter/writer who can either pitch, source, and deliver stories and breaking news articles OR easily embrace wide-ranging assignments for a daily newsletter and website that serves as the global payments and e-commerce industry’s go-to news source. Successful candidates will have strong business reporting experience, be comfortable juggling diverse […]
Tech news site Futurism has been acquired
Recurrent Ventures is set to announce later on Monday that it has purchased Futurism, the tech and culture-focused news site previously owned by Singularity University, a Google and Deloitte-backed technology business, reports Maxwell Tani and Lachlan Cartwright of The Daily Beast. Tani and Cartwright report, “The purchase of Futurism marks the latest acquisition for Recurrent Ventures, […]
Saskatchewan biz news site launches
AllSaskatchewan.com, a business news site covering the Canadian province, has launched. Alex MacPherson, a Saskatchewan business journalist, leads a team that includes Peter Lozinski, also in Saskatoon and Evan Radford and Nathan Meyer in Regina. The online publication will follow the subscription model successfully established in Atlantic Canada back in 2001. AllSaskatchewan is available at […]
FoxBusiness.com has strong second quarter
FoxBusiness.com reported double-digit increases in multiplatform views and multiplatform total minutes in the second quarter, according to comScore data. Both views and total minutes rose 14 percent versus the second quarter of 2020, delivering 340 million total multiplatform views and 591 million multiplatform total minutes. In June, FoxBusiness.com secured 22.5 million multiplatform unique visitors and […]
Top biz news sites see decline in readership
Almost all of the top news websites have seen double-digit declines in readership in the past year, and the business news websites are no exception, according to comScore data. Business Insider reported 60.9 million unique visitors in June, down 12.3 percent from its 69.4 million unique visitors in May and down 31.2 percent from its […]
Ex-Quartz cofounders launch new venture covering work
Former Quartz co-founders Kevin Delaney and Jay Lauf have launched a new venture called Charter covering the future of work, reports Sara Fischer of Axios. Fischer reports, “‘There are other media companies that write about this topic — some occasionally and some more frequently, but it’s one topic among many things that they do,’ Delaney said. ‘This is […]
Fox Business website sees strong May results
FoxBusiness.com saw strong growth in May, seeing the largest growth among business news sites, according to Comscore. It secured over 25 million multiplatform unique visitors and drove 135 million multiplatform views in May. The business network also totaled 231 million multiplatform minutes in May and for the eighth consecutive month surpassed Forbes.com in multiplatform minutes. […]
Money has revamped its website
Mike Ayers, the executive editor of Money magazine, writes about its overhauled website. Ayers writes, “This aesthetic design choice was also implemented into the article page layout, where readers are greeted with magazine-style drop caps at the beginning of each article, and a clutter-free column that delivers the information people want, without distraction. “As readers […]
VC firm launches its tech news site, Future
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz launched Tuesday a tech news site called Future, reports Dan Primack of Axios. Primack reports, “The site is expected to provide what a firm spokesperson calls an ‘optimistic’ view of technology, in contrast to what it believes is excessively negative coverage in the traditional tech media. It plans to shy away from […]
