Posts Tagged "Business Insider"

Stories about the reinvention of daily newspaper companies are often not what they seem. They tend to involve traditional media groups not so much investing in the future of news as placing their bets somewhere else entirely. Thus, the UK’s Daily Mail Group, and Hearst Corp, in the US, are investing more heavily in business media and entertainment. And even Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is now generating 35% of its profit and all its growth from digital property listings

Adds another 88 percent on top of its 9 percent for $343 million. Subscription business and millennial audience are big attractions

There is nothing so inspiring as a person triumphing over disaster — the narrative of many books and films. So the sight of Henry Blodget, the former Wall Street analyst who was disgraced in the 1990s dotcom bubble, selling Business Insider, the news site he founded in 2007, at a valuation of $390m is heartwarming

Axel Springer, the German publishing house that puts out Germany’s largest tabloid, Bild, is said to be considering buying U.S. online news publisher Business Insider

As Business Insider UK launches Henry Blodget, CEO of the company, claims that, despite their attempts to embrace modern technology, the FT and WSJ remain “native print” publications”, leaving a space for Business Insider to serve the “generational shift” that has seen the emergence of a cohort of young business leaders who are “100 per cent digital” and shun newspapers and television

The trouble is that newspaper and magazine companies are invariably dominated by print people, profits and philosophies. But digital media increasingly needs different (and, yes, younger) people with new skills working in different ways, often with an unruly approach to experimentation and investment

The trouble is that newspaper and magazine companies are invariably dominated by print people, profits and philosophies. But digital media increasingly needs different (and, yes, younger) people with new skills working in different ways, often with an unruly approach to experimentation and investment

Business Insider will be opening an office in the UK after securing a $12 million investment