Jim Edwards

Jim Edwards

Editor In Chief (News) at Insider
London, United Kingdom

About me

Jim is the editor-in-chief of Insider's news division.

Previously he was the founding editor of Business Insider UK.

He has also been managing editor at Adweek, an advertising columnist at CBS Interactive, and a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia Business School. His work has appeared in Slate, Salon, The Independent, MTV, The Nation and AOL.

His investigative journalism changed the law in the US First Circuit Court of Appeals (U.S. v. Kravetz), the Third Circuit Court of Appeals (North Jersey Media v. Ashcroft), New Jersey (In Re El-Atriss), and New York State (Mosallem v. Berenson).

The US Supreme Court cited his work on the death penalty in the concurrence to Baze v. Rees, on the issue of whether lethal injection is cruel or unusual.

He won the Neal award for business journalism in 2005 for a series investigating bribes and kickbacks in the advertising business.

Positions

Editor In Chief (News)
New York, United States
August 2019 - Present (4 years 10 months)
Based in London
Editor-in-Chief (BI UK and International)
New York, United States
2011 - Present (13 years 5 months)
Editor-in-Chief (BI UK and International) Sep 2017 – Present

Founding editor of Business Insider UK Jun 2014 – Present

Deputy Editor Nov 2012 – Jun 2014

Senior Editor Nov 2011 – Nov 2012
Columnist
CBS Interactive
United States
2008 - 2011 (3 years)
Freelancing for Slate, The Daily, Salon, The Nation, MTV, Metro New York, AOL
Freelance
United States
1999 - 2011 (12 years)
Senior Editor
New York, United States
2004 - 2008 (4 years)
Senior Writer
New Jersey Law Journal
United States
2001 - January 2004 (3 years)
Senior Writer
Brill's Content
United States
2000 - 2001 (1 year)
Celebrity News Editor
APBNews.com
United States
1999 - 2000 (1 year)
Managing Editor
New York, United States
1996 - 1999 (3 years)
Assistant City Editor
Herald & News
United States
1995 - 1996 (1 year)

Education

Graduate School of Journalism

2007 - 2008 (1 year)

2007 - 2008 (1 year)

Ba. Hons.Sociology

Editor of Scan, the student newspaper.

Other professional activities

New York University

Lecturer
2002 - 2014 (12 years)

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