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,
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
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
@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.
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.”
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
Elon Musk has fired so many Twitter workers by mistake that HR created an 'accidental termination' category to re-onboard employees
New from
@HaysKali
via
@businessinsider
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.
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.
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,
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…
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.
“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
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.
@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.
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.
@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%."
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?
@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?
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.
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
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
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
Ukrainian tennis star Elina Svitolina pledges to donate prize money to her country's army after defeating Russia's Anastasia Potapova at Monterrey Open
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:
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.
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…
@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.
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.
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…🙄
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
Elon Musk to attend all hands meeting at Twitter this week, speaking to staff for first time since launching his $44 billion acquisition
Scoop from
@HaysKali
via
@businessinsider
🚨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.
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.)
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.
Facebook faces a reckoning as advertisers slash spending and abandon the platform for the first time ever
@claireatki
,
@lmoses
, and
@larakiara
report that Meta's ad problems go beyond the economic slump.
via
@businessinsider
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
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.
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
A $1 trillion platinum coin could save the US from economic catastrophe in less than a month. It would be fast, legal, and no bigger than a regular coin. via
@businessinsider
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.
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
If you bought EMAX crypto tokens when Kim Kardashian promoted them on Instagram, you'd have lost over 95% of your money by now
@averyhartmans
does the ugly math…
via
@businessinsider
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
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
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!
'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
.
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.
A man stranded in the snow without cell service attached his phone to a drone and flew it until he got reception and could send a message for help. It worked. via
@thisisinsider
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
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
@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.
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
)
Here's
@notsoTan_za
's…um…last story…for Insider…
I'm quitting my job this week without another one lined up. Here's my advice to my fellow millennials looking to make the leap. via
@businessinsider
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.