Nicholas Carlson was the global editor-in-chief of

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. Before that, he was Business Insider's chief correspondent. Carlson attended

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, graduating in 2005. He began his career at

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before joining InternetNews.com and the Silicon Valley news blog Valleywag. In 2015, Carlson published the biography '' Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save

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''. He won a Longform award for best business coverage for his reporting on AOL CEO

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's controversial investment in the local news initiative Patch. In 2022, Gawker reported that Carlson earned an annual salary of $600,000 as Insider editor-in-chief. 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.

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Profile on Insider Inc.
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