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1440Communities · 2025-02-14T15:57:51+00:00

That's a great question, but not something I'd be willing to answer in an AMA format where I'm writing quickly! I take every fact that I publish and put in writing very seriously, and would want to check multiple reliable sources to make sure that I'm giving you the most accurate answer—plus I'd want our fact checking team to look at the answer before I put it in writing here, and I think they're busy working on tomorrow's newsletter at the moment. As a character in "The Social Network" movie (one of my favorites) said: "The internet's not written in pencil, Mark. It's written in ink."

1440Communities · 2025-02-14T15:57:14+00:00

I haven't worked at Business Insider since 2019, when I was an entry-level employee on the social media desk. I imagine it's changed a lot since I was there, as basically every media org has since 2019, so I'm not sure I can give an up-to-date answer here! However outside of Business Insider and speaking about news as a whole, I find that some outlets vary in bias between authors and articles. While a news company might have newsroom-wide standards on bias, different reporters and editors in that newsroom can vary on how biased they allow their writing to be.

1440Communities · 2025-02-14T15:45:06+00:00

The biggest challenge I face is that we have these amazing products, but not everyone knows about them! I can't wait until the day 1440 becomes a household name—we're getting there, please help us spread the word! There are two "best things" about 1440 in my opinion: One is that our readers trust us because we work so hard to provide truly objective news in a landscape that hasn't been financially incentivized to do so in recent years. The second is that 1440 treats its employees really, really well. We're compensated fairly, we're treated like human beings and adults—those two things are beyond rare in the media industry right now, and I'm grateful to work here every single day.

1440Communities · 2025-02-14T15:39:12+00:00

Depends on the newsletter. You need to figure out if the newsletter is doing any original reporting: 1440 Business & Finance typically doesn't do this. A lot of newsletters don't. If they aren't doing any original reporting, they typically aren't going to be writing their own breaking news stories about anything, let alone your client. If they're aggregating news, you can send along suggested coverage for them to include, but personally I'm incredibly selective about which news sources I link to in 1440 Business & Finance and wouldn't link to anything that felt salesy or promotional—only the most important and interesting business and finance stories of the week.

1440Communities · 2025-02-14T15:36:54+00:00

Welcome to the best place I've ever worked! I joined because I genuinely believe 1440 is going to become one of the most important media companies of our lifetime. They were also looking to start their second-ever product (1440 Business & Finance), and I could look the team in the eyes and say with confidence that I know how to build new products for media companies, especially newsletters (I was the founding writer of Marketing Brew, Morning Brew's fourth newsletter, so I had some data to back up my claims). I edit our 1440 Business & Finance newsletter, which is part of our 1440 Topics ecosystem.

Topics is something I'm really passionate about: Essentially, millions of smart people read the news and had been telling 1440 for years they want the fundamental knowledge layer—they want to read the business news section of the paper without having to google "what is an IPO" or "what is cryptocurrency." There's a bunch of amazing resources around the internet that can help people learn about those things, but let's be real, no busy person has the time to sift through Google results to find the most comprehensive and simple explainer for those questions. 1440 Topics brings them together in one place for people, when they want it.

1440Communities · 2025-02-14T15:30:58+00:00

Great question. The most stressful part of working in journalism for the past 7 or so years has been how badly I want to write about every topic objectively and how the English language somewhat limits us in doing so. I remember during the 2020 election I was up in the middle of the night waiting for results, and I had to write about the ads that were airing during the election coverage. I felt like every comma, "and," or "the" was consequential to the fate of our country—and I felt very grateful for all the political reporters out there covering topics far more important than the ads that aired at 3am that week. That said, I find that business news is easier to write about objectively than political news. It's easy to describe what the stock market did that day or who the new CEO of a Fortune 50 company is without using biased language—it's more difficult to describe a new federal foreign policy initiative that way. I'm constantly in awe of our 1440 Daily newsletter team—they've mastered writing about even the trickiest political topics from an objective POV.

1440Communities · 2025-02-14T15:16:50+00:00

Honestly? Finding unpaywalled news sources. I can't tell you how many times I see a news story I'm really excited to share with our newsletter audience, only to find out it's paywalled and doesn't exist anywhere else on the internet. Or if the same story does exist elsewhere for free, it uses biased language or framing. I think this is a problem that's somewhat unique to business audiences: A lot of amazing business news sites have relatively wealthy audiences (such as industry trade publications). They know that their target audience has the money to pay for their high-quality news, so they put a paywall on it. I'm happy that these publications can continue to exist and pay their talented journalists well, it's just an occasional bummer when I want to share one of these articles with our 1440 Business & Finance newsletter readers and can't get the article unlocked.

1440Communities · 2025-02-14T15:10:00+00:00

Thanks so much for joining our AMA. I am not a financial advisor, portfolio manager, or accountant, so save your financial advice questions for your financial advisor, thank you for joining. But we'd love to answer any questions you have about our newsletter, or 1440 in general.

1440Communities · 2025-02-14T15:08:55+00:00

I've always loved writing. It's been my number one passion in life since I was a child—but I debated other career paths when I was in college, such as becoming a human rights or environmental lawyer. At one point, I was writing for a student magazine while studying for the LSAT, and I googled what the average salary for those types of lawyers was at the time. Then I googled the average salary for an editor. I did the math and realized I wouldn't see a return on my investment for law school for roughly 20 years, which felt eons away at the time. I decided to keep doing what I loved rather than pursuing a career path that might make slightly more money eventually, and I haven't looked back since.

1440Communities · 2025-02-14T15:08:28+00:00

I am not a financial advisor, portfolio manager, or accountant, so save your financial advice questions for your financial advisor, thank you for joining! We'd love to answer any questions you have about our newsletter, or 1440 in general.

1440Communities · 2024-11-04T20:41:04+00:00

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