Nicholas Carlson
Business journalist and author
Nicholas Carlson is a business and technology journalist who led Business Insider as editor-in-chief. He wrote Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!.
1 summary 22 min of listening
Born in the United States
About Nicholas Carlson
Nicholas Carlson graduated from Davidson College in 2005 and began his career at Merrill Lynch. He then moved into news writing at InternetNews.com and the Silicon Valley blog Valleywag. At Business Insider he worked as chief correspondent and later as global editor-in-chief. His investigative reporting dug into the histories of Facebook, Twitter and Groupon. His Yahoo coverage won a Digiday award in 2014, and he also won a Longform award for his reporting on the Patch local news initiative. In 2015 he published Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!. That year his New York Times Magazine cover story on Marissa Mayer was a Mirror Award finalist. He later became CEO of Dynamo and co-hosts the show Business Explains The World.