Business Insider

BusinessInsider.com
Web address BusinessInsider.com
Commercial? Yes
Type of site
 Online Newsroom
Available in English
Owner Business Insider Inc.
Editor Henry Blodget
Launched February 2009
Alexa rank
 positive decrease 242 (April 2014)[1]
Current status Active

Business Insider is an American business and technology news website launched in February 2009 and based in New York City. Founded by DoubleClick Founder and former CEO Kevin P. Ryan, it is the overarching brand where Silicon Alley Insider (launched May 16, 2007) and Clusterstock (launched March 20, 2008) appear.[2] The site provides and analyzes business news and acts as an aggregator of top news stories from around the web. Its original works are sometimes cited by other, larger, publications such as The New York Times[3] and domestic news outlets like NPR.[4] The online newsroom currently employs a staff of 50, and the site reported a profit for the first time ever in the 4th quarter of 2010.[5] In June 2012 it had 5.4 million unique visitors.[6]

Business Insider hosts industry conferences including IGNITION,[7] which explores the emerging business models of digital media. In January 2012, Business Insider launched BI Intelligence,[8] a subscription-based research service that provides data and analysis on the mobile, payments, eCommerce, social, and digital media industries. The site each year publishes editorial franchises such as the "Digital 100: The World's Most Valuable Private Tech Companies".[9]

Contributors

The site editors vary greatly in background. CEO and Editor-In-Chief Henry Blodget is a Yale graduate who previously worked on Wall Street until he agreed to a permanent ban from the securities industry and payment of a $2 million fine and disgorgement of $2 million. Executive editor Joe Weisenthal has worked as an analyst and writer for a series of dotcoms,[10] including Techdirt. Deputy editor Nicholas Carlson previously worked at Internet.com and Gawker Media's Silicon Valley gossip blog, Valleywag. Senior editor Jim Edwards previously was managing editor at Adweek.

Reception

Business Insider was named to the Inc. 500 in 2012. The Clusterstock section appeared in the Time article "Best 25 Financial Blogs",[11] and the Silicon Alley Insider section in the PC Magazine article "Our Favorite Blogs 2009".[12] Business Insider was an official Webby honoree for Best Business blog in 2009.[13] The New York Times reported in January 2014 that Business Insider‍‍ '​‍s web traffic was comparable to that of The Wall Street Journal.[14]

References

  1. ↑ "Businessinsider.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
  2. ↑ "Welcome To Business Insider". Retrieved April 5, 2013.
  3. ↑ Harshaw, Tobin (October 30, 2009). "Was the Car Rebate Plan a Clunker?". Opinionator (New York Times blog). Retrieved May 25, 2010.
  4. ↑ "What's Fair Stock Value Anyway?". National Public Radio (Washington DC). December 2, 2008.
  5. ↑ "Business Insider Turns A$2,127 Profit On $4.8 Million in Revenue". TechCrunch. March 7, 2011.
  6. ↑ Hagey, Keach. "Henry Blodget's Second Act". The Wall Street Journal. p. B1.
  7. ↑ IGNITION
  8. ↑ BI Intelligence
  9. ↑ "Digital 100: The World's Most Valuable Private Tech Companies"
  10. ↑ Binyamin Appelbaum (May 10, 2012). "Joe Weisenthal vs. the 24-Hour News Cycle". New York Times.
  11. ↑ McIntyre, Douglas A.; Allen, Ashley C. (January 22, 2009). "Best 25 Financial Blogs". Time (New York). Retrieved June 1, 2010.
  12. ↑ "Our Favorite Blogs 2009". PC Magazine (New York). November 23, 2009. Retrieved June 1, 2010.
  13. ↑ "Blog-Business: Official Honoree". Webby Awards.
  14. ↑ Carr, David (January 26, 2014). "Ezra Klein Is Joining Vox Media as Web Journalism Asserts Itself". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 26, 2014. Retrieved December 26, 2014.

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