Mara Leighton

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Mara Leighton

Mara Leighton

@MaraLeighton

Strategy and Ops @ Verbatim, helping startups build content engines that generate demand. Formerly senior reporter @businessinsider (she/her)

New York, NY Katılım Mart 2017
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Mara Leighton
Mara Leighton@MaraLeighton·
My coworkers at BI were often the smartest, kindest, most generous and industrious people I’d ever met. It never stopped being a privilege to work with them. Im sad for this important and broken industry and for my talented friends. I’ll be happy to help in any way
Dave Smith@redletterdave

To all my friends at Business Insider (and elsewhere) affected by layoffs: I'm here for you. References, recommendations, connections ... anything you need.

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Jacob Shamsian ⚖️
Jacob Shamsian ⚖️@JayShams·
Some of the most talented and hardworking people I've ever met were laid off at Business Insider today. I wish this industry valued their work. It just does not make any sense to me.
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Ben Goggin
Ben Goggin@BenjaminGoggin·
It's wild to hear about the cuts that are happening across all media, but specifically today at Business Insider. BI's refocus on business might make sense from a brand perspective, but news, lifestyle and culture coverage was frequently the most read coverage across the site.
Max Tani@maxwelltani

In an internal email this morning, Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng announced that the company is laying off 8% of its staff

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Melia Russell@meliarobin·
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Mara Leighton@MaraLeighton·
@tanyachen Strikingly similar day — except I’ve removed the joy of buying new $$ skincare (read: manufacturing hope) with derm prescriptions. To my great sorrow they work so consistently I can no longer pretend acne is my greatest problem. Do not recommend, 4/10.
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tanya Tianyi chen@tanyachen·
then i sign off for the day and make a delicious plate of pasta carbonara ✨
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tanya Tianyi chen@tanyachen·
[peppy tiktok voice] a day in the life of a digital journalist ✨ i wake up and comb through the most depressing news of the day and spiral next i wash my face. i've been looooving my drunk elephant moisturizer then i check slack to see if there are any company-wide layoffs
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Mara Leighton@MaraLeighton·
@JonathanHChoi Hi Jon! I’m a journalist at Insider and would love to speak with you about this experiment. just shot you an email, but you can follow me for a DM if that’s most convenient
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Jon Choi
Jon Choi@JonathanHChoi·
p.s. I used ChatGPT to help write R code for this paper's statistics and graphs, and it worked VERY well. ChatGPT produced simple code that would be tedious to write (e.g. bootstrapping p-values, creating graph grids), which worked on the first shot! 5/5
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Jon Choi@JonathanHChoi·
🚨🚨 new white paper! We used ChatGPT to write exams and graded them blind alongside real law students at Minnesota. ChatGPT got a C+ average and a low but passing grade in Con Law, Employee Benefits, Tax, Torts. 1/5 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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Mara Leighton@MaraLeighton·
@CarolineRose8 @Icelandair Hi Caroline! I'm a journalist who would love to speak with you about your experience in Iceland — you can reach me here or at mleighton@insider.com. also sent over an email :)
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Amanda Hess
Amanda Hess@amandahess·
We’re asking readers to not engage in any @nytimes platforms tomorrow and stand with us on the digital picket line! Read local news. Listen to public radio. Make something from a cookbook. Break your Wordle streak.
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Kim Renfro
Kim Renfro@kimrrenfro·
I’ve been working at Insider for almost nine years, and I have spent a lot of time thinking about our metrics system and how to reform it. I also think often about our company's editorial mission to “inform and inspire.” Here's what I told Insider at the bargaining table:
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Mara Leighton@MaraLeighton·
@linzasaur I’d read an absolute tome/listen to a full rewatch podcast on this from you
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lindsay dodgson🍓
lindsay dodgson🍓@linzasaur·
I’m basically a Gilmore Girls scholar at this point, and on my 59th rewatch, if I had to pinpoint the one person most responsible for Rory’s downfall, I’d have to say Richard Gilmore
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Ed Yong is not here
Ed Yong is not here@edyong209·
And this final pandemic piece is a distilled shot of the argument I’ve been brewing for 3 yrs. This has been soul-crushing work. We constantly forfeited the chance to do better. But that chance still exists, and we can’t afford the luxury of nihilism. 6/ theatlantic.com/health/archive…
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Insider Union ✊
Insider Union ✊@InsiderUnion·
Last week, 172 of us emailed @thisisinsider management explaining why we need job security, pay equity, metrics reform, and other proposals our union made. Two days later, Insider's counsel told us they didn't read our emails. So today we made sure they can read them.
Insider Union ✊ tweet mediaInsider Union ✊ tweet media
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Ed Yong is not here
Ed Yong is not here@edyong209·
🚨I wrote a big piece about how Delta affects the pandemic endgame. Many folks are upset & confused by the last month. Here's an attempt to reset expectations, lay out our goals, map the near-term future, & show how the pandemic ends--which it will. 1/ theatlantic.com/health/archive…
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