Jim Edwards

About

Currently a consultant on editorial strategy for digital newsrooms. Clients have included GreenBiz, DL News, and The Block. I'm also the editor-in-chief of Moneyin2, the personal finance news and advice platform.I am best-known for being editor-in-chief for News at Insider. I was also the founding editor-in-chief of Business Insider UK. And I was the founding editorial director of DL News, the crypto news website. At Insider, an investigative team working for me exposed Saudi Arabia’s “Absher” rule, which required women to get the permission of a male guardian before traveling through an airport. When the government abolished the rule in 2019 in the wake of negative publicity from our investigation, it was a significant civil rights advance for approximately 15 million Saudi women.My personal reporting, or that of teams assigned by me, got the following results:- Six people sent to jail. - Changed the law in two countries. - Two CEOs fired.- Investigated the Mississippi police for their role in a string of killings of black men.- Ended the career of an MP and a Biden administration official.I have previously been managing editor at Adweek, a columnist at CBSNews.com, and a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia Business School. I have written for The Independent, Fortune, Salon, Slate, MTV, Yahoo, The Nation, and AOL.The U.S. Supreme Court cited my work on the death penalty in the concurrence to Baze v. Rees, on the issue of whether lethal injection is cruel or unusual.My investigative journalism changed the law in the First Circuit Court of Appeals (U.S. v. Kravetz), the Third Circuit Court of Appeals (North Jersey Media v. Ashcroft), New Jersey (In Re El-Atriss), and New York (Mosallem v. Berenson). My reporting teams have changed the law in Saudi Arabia to allow women there to travel without the permission of men.I won the Neal award for business journalism in 2005 for a series investigating bribes and kickbacks in the advertising business.http://www.businessinsider.com/author/jim-edwards