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My job for a little bit longer: Global Editor-in-chief of Business Insider ( @businessinsider ). Go Bucs

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Last year, an investigation by @hannah_beckler found that eight states used dogs to attack and terrorize prisoners, resulting in devastating injuries. Most of these incidents took place in one state: Virginia. This reporting has sparked dramatic local impact. On March 20, 2024,
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Elon Musk had twins last year with one of his top executives Musk, who has been an outspoken advocate of bringing more babies into the world, now has nine known children. via @businessinsider
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A note on Dave Portnoy dropping his lawsuit against Insider
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@tcberman That’s beautiful. And, if my suspicions are right, confirm another gift of hers to the world: a daughter who writes like we all wish we could. I’m sorry for your loss. She sounds like a wonderful person with a big heart.
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Reporters are asking us to respond to Musk’s denial. Our response is: “We stand by our story, which is based on documents and interviews and speaks for itself.”
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A SpaceX flight attendant said Elon Musk exposed himself and propositioned her for sex, documents show. The company paid $250,000 for her silence. via @businessinsider
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Amber Heard was found liable for defaming Johnny Depp in a Washington Post op-ed. She didn't write it — the ACLU did. Heard was also found liable for the headline, which was written by a Washington Post editor.
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A green comet will pass by Earth for the first time since the Stone Age in February, and it won't return for another 50,000 years, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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We won a Pulitzer!!!
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Insider is thrilled to announce the hire of Katie Notopoulos! Katie is funny, smart, and fearless in her analysis of the tech industry, its products, and how both are changing our lives every day. Our readers want stories that help them interpret what’s going on in the world,
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I love the ritual of the NYC commute. Leaving home and hitting the sidewalk, caffeinated and on a mission. All the people on the subway. Clearing my inbox while holding a subway pole (or getting a seat!). Then up some steps and back into the sunshine and onto a busy city street…
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I’m proud to announce that we’ve hired Julia Black as a correspondent for Insider. She previously worked with us as a freelancer. Julia is persistent, fair, a talented writer, and a delight to work with.
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Congratulations everyone you are watching the best soccer game in history
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“Six weeks pregnant means two weeks late for your period." AOC breaks down basic biology after Gov. Greg Abbott said women raped in Texas had 6 weeks to get an abortion via @businessinsider
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I’d like to share some images with everyone. One is the rest of the NBC News story. The other two are of the police report we obtained via FOIA by a researcher, not Julia. We gave the case number to NBC News. We’re disappointed they wrote the story this way.
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@beckpeterson Fun question! I’d rather not say publicly for lots of practical reasons I’m sure you can imagine. This feels a little wimpy, but also prudent. I think I would submit it to some third party I could trust to keep it anonymous and average it with other people in roles like mine.
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The sound you hear everyone going "Oh, now I get it!" after reading @emmacos 's latest… America isn't running out of everything just because of a supply-chain crisis. America is running out of everything because Americans are buying so much stuff.
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@JessicaValenti @kyliebytes I wish you were right! But sadly, in NYC, crime is up 36.5% y/y. "…a total driven by a 59.4% increase in grand larceny auto, a 48.4% increase in robbery and a 40.5% increase in grand larceny (4,078 v. v. 2,902). Burglaries also increased by 40%."
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I understand other things are happening, but why is anyone talking about anything other than the completely dominant start to the season by the Buccaneers defense?
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@elonmusk @BusinessInsider Our readers (including you!) are smart enough to know what "reportedly" means. That story reflects what Semafor reported. (We've included your denial in the story.) Why would we give up when we are having so much fun reporting stories like these?
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LEAKED MEMO: My time as EIC of Business Insider is ending, and I'm really excited for what's next…
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Tonight, Insider picked up is first ever Pulitzer Prize. Our story was about how Zumrat Dawut escaped a Chinese internment camp and then China. She and her husband Imran live in America now, and I’m so grateful they could be our guests at the ceremony.
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ER doctors say this COVID-19 wave is forcing them to deny treatment to other patients who can die as a result: 'Every shift I'm working these days is like the worst shift in my career' via @businessinsider
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Celebs like Matt Damon and Tom Brady have been hawking crypto in high-profile ads — but if you invested when they told you to, you'd be seeing major losses as crypto nosedives
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A cool thing about Twitter cluster is that we can at least rest assured that from now on people in Silicon Valley who are successful at one thing will finally stop talking like they are experts in everything else
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Judge Saylor dismissed Dave Portnoy's defamation suit against Insider. We are pleased and gratified. Our reporting was careful, fair, and accurate.
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Business journalism legend @bethanymac12 built her reputation shining a light on Enron. Her latest for Business Insider brings uncomfortable scrutiny to the world's largest private-equity firm, Blackstone, and it's "marked-to-magic" real estate investment product. The nut:
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Thanks to our corporate cousins at BILD and WELT, Insider can present this exclusive interview with @ZelenskyyUa by @ronzheimer
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Zelenskyy Exclusive: 'Yes, I Feel Hate Toward Russia'
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Work at a trade publication instead of going to grad school for journalism. Work with whomever will hire you, even if you’ve never heard of them and no one you know reads them. You’ll learn a lot more about journalism and skip the debt.
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15 years ago exactly I had my first day at a little blog covering New York startups. It was called Silicon Alley Insider. Here's what it (sort of) looked like that day…
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@TrungTPhan It did not get 10,000 miles high. Maybe 10? The highest altitude flight ever was 123,520 ft. The International Space Station is 254 miles up.
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INSIDER PRESENTS… Warehouse Nation The warehouse is now a blue collar workplace as important as the assembly line once was in the US. This series explores how this boom has, for better and for worse, changed the way the US looks, lives, and works.
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Stand by for…oh wait, @maxwelltani got the leak…again!
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"Axel Springer stands by Business Insider and its newsroom.”
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Internal review backs Business Insider reporting of Oxman plagiarism claims
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COVID-19 deaths by date in NYC. (Chart by @THECITYNY , with some new annotations.)
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On this day in 2008, I joined a little blog called Silicon Alley Insider. That was 13 years ago, which means I am now Insider teenager – and am therefore like, totally unimpressed with all of…this…🙄
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Can linking to a disputed article expose a journalist to a defamation suit? A judge in the Nunes vs Lizza case ruled yes. We disagree. So today, Insider joined a group of 35 news orgs, journalists, and professional orgs in a US Court of Appeals filing saying just that.
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Congratulations to Insider investigative journalist @mattdrange , recipient of the First Amendment Coalition's "Free Speech & Open Government Award." His project showed how tech companies use NDAs and non-disparagement agreements to silence workers.
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CNBC, Fortune, Business Insider at @pressfreedom
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The new editor-in-chief of Insider's Life division is @joimariewrites ! Joi-Marie is an ambitious and empathetic leader, whose creativity and persistence has already lifted us to new heights. Now she’s running a team of 80 people across three continents. Let’s go!
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I am of course a little sad about this news. But I’m also grateful for 12+ years with @ajs and happy for her to take on such a big opportunity. Smart move, Alan Murray. (I’m also proud that the industry hires our editors to run their newsrooms.) Congrats and thank you Alyson!
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Scoop: @ajs is the new editor in chief of @Fortune :
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Insider launched a new fellowship for mid-career journalists displaced by international conflicts. If you'd like to help us promote this opportunity here's a link to the job description. Base pay is $75,000. Location is the US.
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The exit from Afghanistan has been a horror show. But then, so was the past decade. We just weren’t taking about it much. Charts from @stephensemler
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All of you who are sooooooo excited that it’s fall, sorry, I have bad news. It is not. We have almost 16 glorious days of glorious summer left. Look at a calendar and put your cardigans away.
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🚨Dream writing job 🚨 We are looking for a newsletter writer. They must be driven by curiosity about what’s in the news and a need to explain what they’ve learned and what it really means. They are independent-minded, and smart on new topics fast.
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3 years
This also seems true for New York right now. A great time for the “I love New York, but could never live there” crowd. Restaurants, bars, museums and Broadway shows are open. (Plus you can enjoy them knowing everyone around you is vaccinated.)
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London is back and wonderful, but there are few tourists. You can get marquee tourists sights almost to yourself. This is a great time to do big-city vacations, with good values and light crowds, and actually do the most touristy things.
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Sports! An incredibly painful and stressful thing to watch!
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The first streaming show built on Business Insider reporting is a huge hit. From Deadline: "Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV has been watched by more than 16 million viewers, according to ID and Max/discovery+, with the largest audience of an unscripted series since the
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Congratulations to our new executive editors for Insider’s news division, @HarringtonBecca , @kj_corcoran , and @johnjcook — all reporting to EIC @jhcunningham . What a team!
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For the past 15 years, a thousand or so people worked to make Insider a news organization that can win awards like this. Some still work here. Some are gone. I am grateful to every single one of them, and believe they all share in this huge win.
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I'm thrilled to announce the new leadership team for Insider's business division! 1/x
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COVID cases per 100,000 people and hospitalizations per 100,000 people amid Omicron wave for the vaccinated vs unvaccinated Source: @THECITYNY
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Insider's Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrated story was translated and printed in Die Welt!
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Business Insider won its very first National Magazine Award last night! We won for a video revealing how American prisons use dogs to terrorize and sometimes badly injure incarcerated people. This is a huge and historic honor for our newsroom and company. There are so many
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This reporting also led to the destruction of the newsroom it came from. A powerful testament to independent journalists.
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One year ago today, a story appeared in Coindesk leading to the fall of FTX. Today, Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted of a massive criminal conspiracy.
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NYC COVID-19 hospitalizations since the beginning of the pandemic. (Source: ⁦ @THECITYNY ⁩)
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Twitter users notified us that our redaction of Portnoy’s address was incomplete in a prior screen shot. We deleted the image and tweet and sent another with better redaction to preserve his privacy.
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BI's first foray into TV is an even bigger hit than we knew. "Quiet on Set" the first streaming show built on BI reporting, and which heavily features @Kate_H_Taylor , was the number one show across all streaming platforms the week it debuted with more than a billion minutes
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I love your tweet but you don’t want me to like it right now.
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We won? We won! …Holy shit! We won! So proud of this team. So grateful!
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Business Insider won its very first National Magazine Award last night! We won for a video revealing how American prisons use dogs to terrorize and sometimes badly injure incarcerated people. This is a huge and historic honor for our newsroom and company. There are so many
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Pretty long way to come for Silicon Alley Insider
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We are releasing the database behind our “Conflicted Congress” investigation free to the world! Search the assets, investments, outside employment, and debts of congressional lawmakers using Insider's exclusive databases
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Today's weather is a great reminder why flex is the best WFH policy
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Responding to:
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FROM NBC NEWS Apparently the great Julia Black had time to contact every girl I’ve ever spoken with but not to reach out to the Nantucket police to verify her sources. Color me shocked!
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Actually Slack, there are no unread messages in that channel. But go ahead and bold it though. Go ahead that’s great.
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'I was literally screaming in pain': Young women say they met Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy for sex and it turned violent and humiliating New from ⁦ @mjnblack ⁩ for Insider. Edited by ⁦ @DanaSchusterNYC ⁩.
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I propose that we take the colon out when we write what time things are. And the "M" from AM and PM, too. When are we meeting? 315p. What time does it start? 1030a.
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The CDC says every quarantine day is also a cheat day and you should probably get burrata with your pasta too.
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Elon Musk will be forced to acquire Twitter for $44 billion, says a top M&A legal expert who warns that the billionaire is 'in trouble' as he heads to court New from ⁦ @HaysKali
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@AdamSchefter @EliManning Hope he got them bleached after 31-9
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Facebook's Top 10
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The top-performing link posts by U.S. Facebook pages in the last 24 hours are from: 1. Insider 2. CNN 3. CNN 4. Occupy Democrats 5. The New York Times 6. The Onion 7. Peachy Sunday 8. HuffPost 9. NPR 10. Reuters
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The older I get, the more I like cleaning the kitchen.
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@CadieThompson is being promoted to Executive Editor. She is a top reporter and editor coach. It’s not at all surprising so many of our stars have worked with her.
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You will never believe it but the way to be safe from the novel coronavirus is to take the safe, free, widely-available miracle drug.
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Derek Thompson
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Omicron is hitting the US much harder than the UK (or South Africa) in large part because we have significantly fewer double-vaxx'd adults and significantly fewer boosted seniors. (data via @OurWorldInData and @jburnmurdoch )
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Business Insider contributor @bethanymac12 will receive the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing’s highest honor – its Distinguished Achievement Award – for 2024. So well-deserved. We are so lucky to publish her stuff.
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The White House follows @josephzeballos on Twitter, so you probably should too…
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