Nicholas Carlson | |
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Occupation | Journalist |
Alma mater | Davidson College |
Nicholas Carlson was the global editor-in-chief of Business Insider.[1] Before that, he was Business Insider's chief correspondent.[2]
Carlson attended Davidson College, graduating in 2005.[3] He began his career at Merrill Lynch before joining InternetNews.com and the Silicon Valley news blog Valleywag.[4][5] In 2015, Carlson published the biography Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!.[2][6] He won a Longform award for best business coverage for his reporting on AOL CEO Tim Armstrong's controversial investment in the local news initiative Patch.[7]
In 2022, Gawker reported that Carlson earned an annual salary of $600,000 as Insider editor-in-chief.[8]
Carlson was observed on June 13, 2023 taking pro-union posters with his face on them off lampposts in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn during a labor strike at Insider by its journalists.[9]