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{{Short description|Editor-in-chief of InsideInsider}}

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| alma_mater = [[Davidson College]]

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{{Undisclosed paid|date=May 2022}}

'''Nicholas Carlson''' iswas the global editor-in-chief of [[Insider Inc.|Business Insider]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/nicholas-carlson-named-global-editor-in-chief-of-business-insider-2017-10|title=Nicholas Carlson named Global Editor-in-Chief of Business Insider|first=Henry|last=Blodget|website=Business Insider}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.axios.com/2024/05/07/business-insider-nicholas-carlson-steps-down|title=Business Insider Nicholas Carlson Steps Down|first=Kerry|last=Flynn|website=Axios}}</ref> Before that, he was Business Insider's chief correspondent.<ref name="auto">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/books/review/marissa-mayer-and-the-fight-to-save-yahoo-by-nicholas-carlson.html|title='Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!,' by Nicholas Carlson|first=Sheelah|last=Kolhatkar|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 23, 2015}}</ref>

Carlson isattended also[[Davidson College]], graduating in 2005.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Inside the authorInsider: Nicholas Carlson '05 and the Rise of Digital Mass Media |url=https://wildcatsync.davidson.edu/event/8162514 |access-date=2023-09-25 |website=[[Davidson College]] |language=en}}</ref> He began his career at [[Merrill Lynch & Co.|Merrill Lynch]] before joining InternetNews.com and the Silicon Valley news blog [[Valleywag]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nicholas Carlson |url=https://www.allamericanspeakers.com/celebritytalentbios/Nicholas+Carlson/393104 |access-date=2023-09-25 |website=All-American Speakers}}</ref><ref>[https://www.businessinsider.com/author/nicholas-carlson Nicholas Carlson]. ''Insider.''</ref> In 2015, Carlson published the biography ''[[Marissa Mayer]] and the Fight to Save [[Yahoo!]]''.<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pressgazette.co.uk/interview-insider-editor-in-chief-nicholas-carlson-says-news-outfits-that-can-survive-covid-19-crisis-will-later-thrive/|title=Nicholas Carlson interview: Insider editor in chief talks to Press Gazette|first=William|last=Turvill|date=April 23, 2020|website=Press Gazette}}</ref> CarlsonHe won a Longform award for best business coverage for his reporting on [[AOL]] CEO [[Tim Armstrong (executive)|Tim Armstrong]]'s controversial investment in the local news initiative, [[Patch (website)|Patch]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://longform.org/lists/best-of-2013/business|title=Business · Best of 2013 · Longform}}</ref> He was caught on June 13, 2023 ripping pro-union posters off lampposts in New York City during a labor strike at [[Insider Inc.|Insider]] by its journalists.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-13 |title=Insider editor in chief tears down union posters amid strike |url=https://nypost.com/2023/06/13/insider-editor-in-chief-tears-down-union-posters-amid-strike/ |access-date=2023-06-15 |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2022, [[Gawker]] reported that Carlson earned an annual salary of $600,000 as Insider editor-in-chief.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hitt |first=Tarpley |date=2022-03-15 |title=The Editor-in-Chief of 'Insider' Makes $600,000 (With a $600,000 Bonus) |url=https://www.gawker.com/media/nicholas-carlson-insider-editor-in-chief-salary-600000 |access-date=2023-09-25 |website=[[Gawker]] |language=en}}</ref>

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.<ref name="Wrap flyers">{{cite news |last1=Cobb |first1=Kayla |title=Insider Editor Caught Taking Down Pro-Union Flyers |url=https://www.thewrap.com/insider-editor-nicholas-carson-strike-flyers/ |access-date=12 July 2023 |work=[[The Wrap]] |date=14 June 2023}}</ref><!--Unreliable source: <ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-13 |title=Insider editor in chief tears down union posters amid strike |url=https://nypost.com/2023/06/13/insider-editor-in-chief-tears-down-union-posters-amid-strike/ |access-date=2023-06-15 |language=en-US}}</ref> -->

==References==

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==External links==

[https://www.businessinsider.com/author/nicholas-carlson Profile on Insider Inc.]

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