Benjamin Snyder is a managing editor for Insider Inc. where he leads recruiting and hiring efforts for multiple Business Insider verticals after his promotion in November 2021, including the markets, investing, economy, analytical features, business features, investigations, entertainment business, media, advertising, graphics, newsletters and special projects teams in the US and UK. In his role, Ben works closely with Insider’s editors-in-chief, executive editors, deputy editors, senior editors and others for all personnel and management needs, totaling over 100 people.

Ben is also responsible for establishing goals and beats for reporters, while helping with career development opportunities in partnership with the newsroom’s editors.

Ben is committed to paying special attention to diversity and inclusion initiatives, which is something that means so much to him personally as a member of the LGBT community (and which he’s covered as an editor and writer). In June 2021, Ben launched a historic partnership with NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists to offer fellowship opportunities every six months to early-career journalists from the community.

Interested in joining Insider? Check out our listings here: https://www.insider-inc.com/careers#careers-open-roles

In the past, Ben served as an audience development and social media editor at Bloomberg, an editor at CNBC where he covered leadership and as an associate editor at Fortune Magazine where he helped lead the website’s news coverage and launched the website’s sports business vertical.

In January 2017, Ben published a book with 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Billie Jean King, an equal rights activist and former tennis world No.1, on the history of her professional tennis league World TeamTennis. As part of the project, Ben interviewed over 50 tennis players, owners, coaches and others involved in the league’s 40-year history. During the book writing process, he worked closely with Simon & Schuster’s Archway publishing branch on format and design.

His work has appeared in a variety of publications both online and in print, including D&I in Practice, Backchannel, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, The Baltimore Sun, Tennis Magazine, CNN.com, Yahoo.com, AOL.com, and Entrepreneur.com. He has also written for the websites of numerous tennis tournaments internationally, including for the U.S. Open, Wimbledon, and the Western & Southern Open.

Ben earned a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in May 2014 where he took classes in feature writing, book writing, investigative reporting and multimedia skills. He graduated from Goucher College with degrees in American studies and communications. There, Ben served as editor of his college newspaper and as a four-year letter winner on the Men’s Varsity Tennis Team. He studied abroad at the University of Oxford during his junior year.

For examples of his work, please view his portfolio.

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