Founder Henry Blodget tells New Yorker magazine that Business Insider’s audience is larger than many established financial news outlets, but the company also lost $3 million in 2012 or almost a quarter of its revenues. Read more at paidContent »
The controversy over writer Nate Thayer’s failure to credit his sources, which some alleged amounted to plagiarism, is just part of an ongoing debate over how we use — and give credit for — information in a digital age. Read more at paidContent »
Some call it aggregation, while others call it copyright infringement or even theft. In a recent Twitter debate sparked by a post on the topic, Digiday’s editor-in-chief and Business Insider founder Henry Blodget traded theories. Read more at paidContent »
Henry Blodget of Business Insider has opened up about his site’s growth and other metrics, but for someone who is promoting transparency, he hasn’t told us the most important things we need to know in order to tell whether BI is successful or not. Read more at paidContent »
Gabe Rivera has been at the vanguard of technology driven journalism through sites like Techmeme and Mediagazer. At a recent event, he discussed the limits of algorithms and the need for human curation. Read more »
Jill Abramson, executive editor of the New York Times, gave a frank overview of the evolving role of the newsroom as she described how the Times’ is blending traditional separations between print and web operations. Read more at paidContent »
SAY Media, which in recent months has acquired Remodelista and Dogster and launched Jane Pratt’s xoJane.com, is expanding into the tech spac… Read more at paidContent »
Financial and media news online site network Business Insider has raised $7 million for what founder and editor Henry Blodget says will be a… Read more at paidContent »