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Why Business Insider Is Axing 100-Plus Staff and Who Is Leaving

Summary by Press Gazette
Massive job cuts at Business Insider follow the site losing around half its traffic over the last five years. Press Gazette analysis shows that entertainment, environment, audience growth, personal finance and technology are among the reporter roles hardest hit by a decision to cut 21% of jobs (at least 100 people). Press Gazette has produced a complete list of known Business Insiders leavers at the end of this story. Senior names exiting the bu…

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On Thursday, Barbara Peng, CEO of Business Insider (Axel Springer), announced in an internal note that the company was going to lay off about one in five employees (i.e. 21% of the workforce). This decision aims to adapt the business model of the media, reducing its dependence on "traffic-sensitive" activities such as e-commerce, increasingly affected by the drop in visits via search engines, notably due to IA tools such as Google AI Overviews o…

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exchangewire.com broke the news in on Monday, June 2, 2025.
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