A Week After Business Insider Layoffs, CEO Barbara Peng Is Stepping Down
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A Week After Business Insider Layoffs, CEO Barbara Peng Is Stepping Down
Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng will step down from her role next month, she told staff on Wednesday, following a tenure consumed by declining subscriptions and multiple rounds of layoffs. Status first reported her exit. “I will be leaving Business Insider,” Peng told staffers in her note. “This was not an easy decision for me. I love Business Insider. I love being here with you every day, figuring things out, building, and forging the future …
Business Insider’s business model is no longer working
Brian Morrissey writes in his The Rebooting website about why Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng is departing. Morrissey writes, “One Business Insider executive at the Media Product Forum was scrambling to make sense of the news their CEO was leaving. They were busy backchanneling to know more about the new interim CEO, digital media veteran Christian Baesler. The […]
Business outsider: The US news medium "Business Insider" by Axel Springer and CEO Barbara Peng (left) go separate ways. In a message to her team she announces her departure on June 30th and writes: "I am extremely proud of what we have achieved together." Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner calls Peng a "model for positive energy". Interim successor is Christian Baesler (right), who has been Senior Advisor in Springer's US team so far. A permanent succ…
Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng says she is leaving the company on June 30; Christian Baesler will become interim lead of the outlet (Barbara Peng/Business Insider)
Barbara Peng / Business Insider: Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng says she is leaving the company on June 30; Christian Baesler will become interim lead of the outlet — Today I am announcing that I will be leaving Business Insider. — This was not an easy decision for me. I love Business Insider.
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