Matt Turner is Business Insider’s Deputy Editor-in-Chief, overseeing global business coverage across 12 verticals. With deep expertise in financial markets and regulatory policy, his work sits at the intersection of Wall Street strategy and Washington decision-making.
“The best stories emerge where spreadsheets meet storytelling – that’s where reality diverges from press releases.”
Matt Turner’s journalism career began at Dow Jones-owned Financial News, where he developed expertise in investment banking and capital markets. His 2015 move to Business Insider as Finance Editor marked a pivotal shift toward building cross-disciplinary teams spanning markets, healthcare, and advertising. Turner played instrumental roles in launching both Markets Insider (a real-time financial data platform) and Insider’s subscription service, demonstrating his ability to bridge technical and editorial innovation.
“The real story isn’t in the earnings call transcript – it’s in the 10-K footnotes that nobody reads.”
Turner’s November 2024 analysis piece dissected the paradox of rising tech layoffs amid stable unemployment figures. Through proprietary analysis of SEC filings and HR software data, he revealed how companies were using AI-driven “productivity analytics” to justify cutting senior roles while maintaining headcount. The article became required reading at Federal Reserve policy meetings, with Chair Jerome Powell referencing its methodology during Congressional testimony[1].
This November 2024 deep dive into Musk’s Special Government Efficiency Advisor role combined FOIA requests with exclusive interviews from SpaceX and Treasury Department staffers. Turner exposed how Musk’s “algorithmic regulation” proposals threatened to bypass congressional oversight, sparking bipartisan calls for ethics investigations. The piece demonstrated his unique access to both Silicon Valley and DC power centers[1].
Turner’s November 2024 political risk analysis mapped corporate contingency plans for a potential second Trump administration. By obtaining leaked memos from Fortune 500 legal teams and cross-referencing them with historical regulatory patterns, he predicted which industries would face maximal disruption. Hedge funds used this framework to adjust their election-sensitive portfolios[1].
Turner prioritizes stories examining how policy changes create unintended market consequences. A successful pitch might analyze how Basel III banking reforms unintentionally boosted private credit markets – a pattern seen in his 2024 coverage of SEC climate disclosure rules[1]. Avoid surface-level policy summaries; he seeks original data showing ripple effects across sectors.
His Tech/Finance intersection coverage favors startups altering financial infrastructure rather than consumer apps. The 2023 series on blockchain-based settlement systems exemplifies this focus[1]. Pitch AI-driven liquidity management tools or embedded finance APIs with hard metrics on transaction volume changes.
Turner’s scoop on Blackstone’s logistics real estate pivot came three months before earnings announcements[1]. Successful sources provide: 1) Internal strategy docs showing resource reallocations 2) Executive calendar changes indicating new priorities 3) Supply chain partners’ capacity adjustments.
Despite Business Insider’s broad remit, Turner’s personal bylines avoid topics like credit card rewards or budgeting apps. His team delegates these to personal finance verticals. Focus instead on institutional investors, regulatory arbitrage, or macroeconomic modeling.
His award-winning 2022 inflation analysis incorporated TikTok product review sentiment scores[1]. Pitches should include novel datasets like satellite imagery of retail parking lots, cybersecurity vendor breach reports, or cross-border payment API traffic.
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