Nicholas Carlson, CEO and editor in chief of a new video-focused media company Dynamo, has navigated some of the most significant shifts in digital journalism throughout his career. He went from working at a trade publication called internetnews.com to blogging for Gawker and eventually rose to the top of Business Insider, where he served as global editor in chief.
“They paid me $12 a post,” Carlson recalled of his humble beginnings at Gawker, in an interview with Mediaite editor Aidan McLaughlin on this week’s episode of Press Club. “So, I would wake up, write seven posts, go for a walk in Inwood Hill Park, come back, and write seven more.”
At Business Insider, Carlson oversaw the growth of the newsroom to more than 600 staffers and the outlet’s first Pulitzer Prize, for an illustrated investigation on a Chinese internment camp. Business Insider was known under Carlson for drawing the ire of the …