Editorial Shuffle at Business Insider as Henry Blodget Hunts For New Tech Editor
Two weeks after raising $3 million of new venture capital, Business Insider founder Henry Blodget is hunting for a new editor-in-chief to oversee the site’s tech vertical. In an announcement today, Mr....
View ArticleArthur Sulzberger Jr. Admits The Inevitable
During a talk at the International Newsroom Summit held in London, Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. admitted that “we will stop printing the New York Times sometime in the future,” but, said...
View ArticleIs Business Insider Dissing Silicon Alley’s Women?
Silicon Alley Insider stirred up an already heated debate over women in tech today when it published its list of the 100 Coolest People in Silicon Alley. The qualifications for making this list are...
View ArticleDoes Net Queen Mary Meeker’s Return Herald Tech Boom (or Bubble)?
Back in the late 1990s, Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker was known as the “Net Queen” for her bullish view on the web. When the Dot-com bubble burst, of course, her research fell out of favor. But...
View ArticleDenton: $12K Dick Pic Worth Millions to Gawker [Video]
Nick Denton and Henry Blodget were in a jovial mood today, chatting about the new media business at Business Insider’s Ingnition Conference. Blodget wanted to know if Denton, who recently penned an...
View ArticleSilicon Alley Insider Is OUTRAGED Over Dearth of Women in Tech
There are no women on the boards of the biggest Web 2.0 companies, Kara Swisher at All Things D wrote yesterday, citing Zynga, Facebook, Twitter and Groupon. It’s crappy to see that the hottest...
View ArticleFor Soho House, The Tech Set Is The New Clubbable Class
If this is an incubator, where's the ping pong table? “On the West Coast, they call it the Stanford swivel,” said serial entrepreneur Nihal Mehta. “Like when you’re at Stanford, you kind of have to...
View ArticleHenry Blodget Says Flap Over Morgan Stanley’s Facebook Research Is All...
Henry Blodget, BusinessInsider aggregator-in-chief, disgraced Merrill Lynch analyst and the pundit who spent the weeks leading up to the Facebook IPO hammering on what were at face incongruous...
View ArticleDoes Henry Blodget Hate Jews?
Henry Blodget—the pale firecrotch king of Business Insider, whose greatest moment of intimacy with Jews came when one banned him from the securities industry for life—can’t decide who hates Jews: Is it...
View ArticleHenry Blodget Challenges Florida Journalism Professor to Blog-Off
Mr. Blodget. Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget has challenged journalism professor Dan Reimhold to a blog-off against BI’s pathologically prolific writer Joe Weisenthal, according to Poynter. It all...
View ArticlePower Lunch: Spin Staffers Get Spun Out of Jobs
The newly revitalized Spin magazine is being un-revitalized, Gawker’s big new hire, Blodget’s big new profile, Borowitz’s old trolling tactic attracts new “fans,” and more media stories in today’s...
View ArticleBusiness Insider Writer Is on a Safari
Julie Zeveloff, the editor of Business Insider’s lifestyle vertical, is going on safari to “the best hotel in the world,” as she has so often referred to it. Ms. Zeveloff has been invited to go on this...
View ArticleNick Denton Denies Rumor of Gawker And Business Insider Merger
Henry Blodget and Nick Denton Rumors of a merger between Business Insider and Gawker that made the rounds this morning have been greatly exaggerated. “We had breakfast, as we regularly do. I admire...
View ArticleNick Denton and Henry Blodget Kind of Addressed Merger Rumors
Nick Denton and Henry Blodget talk about stuff (photo via Twitter) Offices were all a-Twitter late this morning after a rumor spread that Gawker’s Nick Denton and Business Insider’s Henry Blodget would...
View ArticleNick Denton and Henry Blodget Have Fun With Merger Rumors
Nick Denton and Henry Blodget talk about stuff (photo via Twitter) Talk of a merger between Gawker and Business Insider, helped along by Nick Denton and Henry Blodget, was the subject of frenzied...
View ArticleBooting Up: Long Live Yahoogle Edition
Marissa Mayer is reportedly getting straight to work Googlifying Yahoo. She officially made the food in the Valley HQ free
View ArticleThe Rise and Fall of New York Founders on Vanity Fair’s ‘New Establishment’ List
Annie Leibovitz’s Silicon Alley photo shoot has finally made its way into print, as part of Vanity Fair’s annual “New Establishment”
View ArticleRumor Roundup: Apple Aggressively Recruits Devs to Fix Maps, Jake Lodwick’s...
It’s a gloomy, rainy Friday in New York, but we’re about to serve you a piping hot bowl of gossip.
View ArticleWhy Yes, Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Would Love to Talk About Rumors of His...
Late last night, Twitter tongues wagged as to whether Groupon’s goofy CEO Andrew Mason would actually show up for his scheduled
View ArticleSmiling Andrew Mason Tells Henry Blodget That Contrary to Reports, Groupon...
What’s a young CEO to do amid rumors that he may soon be relieved of his duties? Hunker down and
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